Rudolf Wihr

Rudolf Wihr (born April 17, 1885 in Kaiserslautern ; † November 12, 1936 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German teacher and local researcher.

Life

Rudolf Wihr studied at the Kaiserslautern teacher training college. In 1913 he went to school in the Palatinate, but volunteered at the beginning of the First World War in 1914 and was taken prisoner by the French in 1915, from which he did not return until January 1920.

After his return he took up the post of assistant professor in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim, which he had already been assigned in 1916 . There he came across the remains of an old castle, which he researched intensively. He set himself the goal of opening up their homeland to his students through local studies . For this purpose he wrote his first essays.

After his marriage, Rudolf Wihr settled in Neuhofen and wondered about the strange field names there. When he heard that old stones and bones had been found in “Medenheimer Gasse”, he wanted to find out more about the submerged village of Medenheim and took files from Speyer libraries home to evaluate them. Rudolf Wihr died after a serious operation at the age of 41.

The Rudolf-Wihr-Schulzentrum in Limburgerhof and the Rudolf-Wihr-Straße in Neuhofen are named after the local researcher.

Works

• Medenheim, a submerged there near Neuhofen (1927)
• From customs on the Rehütte (1928)
• Around the Neuhofen Old Rhine (1928)
• The new yard. Neuhofen and Affolterloch as the economic center of the Upper Rhine owner of the Himmerod Abbey in the Eifel, 1194-1318-1513 (1932)
• Rehhütter Chronicle (1937)