Rolf Saltzwedel

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Rolf Saltzwedel (born July 4, 1928 in Lübeck ; † October 8, 2016 in Lübeck) was a German homeland historian and journalist .

Life

Since childhood a member of the Lübeck singing and playing group around Bruno Grusnick , Saltzwedel published a commemorative publication for the outstanding choir director in 1981. As a contemporary witness, he reported in the yearbook Der Wagen about the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink , who was executed by the Nazi rulers in 1943 with three Catholic priests from Lübeck.

After graduating from high school at Katharineum in Lübeck and studying classical philology at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen , Saltzwedel had been a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Katharineum since 1956, where he directed the annual Low German nativity play in St. Aegidia . From 1976 until his retirement in 1990 he was director of the Ernestin School in Lübeck.

One of his two sons is the Spiegel editor Johannes Saltzwedel .

Act

From 1966 to 2001, Saltzwedel published the Lübeck yearbook Der Wagen as the successor to Paul Brockhaus for the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and published numerous articles on the cultural history of his hometown in it. As editor and author, he also initiated a critical examination of the Nazi past, which had not taken place under his predecessor, who was burdened by the Nazis. In addition, he worked on the editorial committee for the Lübeckische Blätter published by the “Gemeinnützige” and several other committees of the society. As the founding chairman of the Buddenbrookhaus development association , from 1989 onwards he was instrumental in ensuring that the family home of Thomas and Heinrich Mann could be opened to the public in 1993 as a museum with a permanent exhibition and conference facilities. In addition, he was active on the church council of St. Marien zu Lübeck from 1965 and was a member of the artistic advisory board of the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Culture .

Awards

For his services, Saltzwedel received the golden medal of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in 1998 .

Works

  • Investigations into the musical in the form of the pastoral poems Theocritus . Diss. Phil., Kiel 1953.
  • The car. A Lübeck yearbook . Founded by Paul Brockhaus. Edited by Rolf Saltzwedel. Lübeck 1967-2000.
  • Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Ernestine School in Lübeck 1804-1979 . Ed. V. Rolf Saltzwedel. Lübeck 1979.
  • Festschrift for Bruno Grusnick on his 80th birthday . Ed. V. Rolf Saltzwedel and Klaus D. Koch. Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1981.
  • Council and Citizens Church St. Marien zu Lübeck. A guide through the church . Edited by Rolf Saltzwedel. Lübeck 1986.
  • Yearbook of the St.-Marien-Bauverein . 10th episode. Ed. V. Rolf Saltzwedel. Lübeck 1987.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Lübecker Nachrichten of October 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Saltzwedel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German home historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2016
Place of death Lübeck