Rudolf Rauh

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Rudolf Rauh (born January 17, 1908 in Kehlbach ; † May 27, 1973 in Leutkirch ) was a German historian and archivist.

Life

As an archivist, Rudolf Rauh was active in several aristocratic archives, for example in 1938 in the Princely Archives of Schloss Zeil and in 1948 in the Princely Archives in Wolfsegg in Württemberg. In 1955 he moved to the Count's Archives Hohenems in Austria as archive director.

Together with Otto Feger and Franz Herberhold , he founded the Southwest German Archive Days in 1946. In 1952 he was a founding member of the Municipal Institute for Landscape Science of the Lake Constance area, from which the Constance working group for medieval history emerged . He was a member of the Historical Commission of Württemberg and head of the Institute for Upper Swabian Regional Studies. Most recently he lived in Leutkirch im Allgäu , where he died in 1973.

Works (selection)

  • Paleography of the Main Franconian monumental inscriptions. Introduction and history of development . Munich, 1935.
  • Kempten , Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben 1955.
  • Reichserbtruchseß Wilhelm d. Ä. from Waldburg. In: Swabian homeland. Vol. 9, 1958, ISSN  0342-7595 , pp. 223-229.
  • The domiciliary rights of the imperial inheritance dinners, the princes of Waldburg . 2 volumes. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1971–1972.

literature

Rudolf Seigel: Rudolf Rauh † . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 93, 1975, pp. VII-VIII. Digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966, 10th edition, NZ, Berlin, 1966, p. 1933.
  2. In the literature , the hamlet of Leutkirch belonging to Salem (Baden) is also found as the place of death. According to Kürschner's scholars calendar from 1966, however, Rauh lived in Leutkirch / Allg., Maucherstr. 41.