Sabine Maehnert

Sabine Maehnert (far left) 2013 with her team from the Celle City Archives

Sabine Maehnert (born June 21, 1955 in Hildesheim ) is a German archivist and director of the Celle city archive .

Life

Born in 1955 in Hildesheim, Sabine Maehnert grew up in Celle from the age of two . After graduating from high school, she went to Marburg , where she graduated as an archivist from the then technical college , the Marburg Archive School . In 1978 she worked in the Celle city archives, where she initially sifted through, sorted and recorded the archival material , mainly after years of detailed work .

Maehnert then increasingly devoted himself to the history of the Jews and Huguenots in Celle, as well as the processing of the local history of National Socialism . She also turned her attention to the buildings of the architect Otto Haesler in Celle.

Maehnert played a key role in the design of the Celle synagogue for exhibition and educational purposes, organized an exhibition on the Huguenots in Celle Castle and personally guided interested people through the Jewish cemetery in Celle .

In addition to various book contributions, Sabine Maehnert published numerous articles, including for example in the “Sachsenspiegel” of the Cellesche Zeitung .

Sabine Maehnert invited numerous well-known speakers to lectures in Celle, often organized accompaniments, support and guided tours for visitors to the city of Celle, as well as rewarding the services of those invited.

Together with her husband Carsten Maehnert, Maehnert prepared study trips and was involved in establishing the town twinning between Celle and the town of Mazkeret Batya in Israel .

Sabine Maehnert also played a key role in the creation of the organizer association of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation with the Jewish community of Celle and the Celle city archive.

In 2012 Sabine Maehnert was awarded the “ Honorary Award ” of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (AsF).

Fonts

• with Andreas Flick and Angelica Hack: Huguenots in Celle. Catalog for the exhibition in Celle Castle April 9 - May 8, 1994. City of Celle, Celle 1994, ISBN 3-925902-19-8 .
• with Andreas Flick: Archives of the French Reformed parishes of Lüneburg and Celle and the German Reformed parish of Celle. With a historical introduction and a bibliography (= history sheets of the German Huguenot Association. Volume 24; = Small writings on the history of the city of Celle. Volume 1). Celle City Archives, Celle 1997, ISBN 3-925902-26-0 .
• with Brigitte Streich : Above the roofs of Celle. Historical photographs. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-8313-1007-6 .
• with Kathrin Panne : A tour through the old Celle. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003, ISBN 3-8313-1139-0 .
• with Joachim Piper (Red.) and Anne Riege among others: Stolpersteine. Searching for traces in Celle. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Celle, Celle 2008, ISBN 978-3-925902-66-6 .
• with Rolf-Jürgen Grote (Ed.): The old town hall of Celle. The renovation of the baroque facade painting (= Celler contributions to regional and cultural history. Volume 39; = workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 35). Niemeyer, Hameln 2010, ISBN 978-3-8271-8035-3 .
• with Sibylle Obenaus and Tim Wegener : Jewish community in Celle. Documentation for the exhibition (= small writings on the history of the city of Celle. Volume 15). City of Celle, Celle 2014, ISBN 978-3-925902-90-1 . (German English)

Web links

• Sabine Maehnert on the website of the online newspaper Celle Heute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Bernd Polster , RWLE Möller : Sabine Maehnert. In: Bernd Polster, RWLE Möller (Ed.): Celle. The city book. Edition Stadtbuch, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 126.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Anne Riege: Laudation Sabine Maehnert. Speech for the award of the honorary award on June 7, 2012; downloadable as a PDF document
3. ↑ Compare the imprint on the archivschule.de page
4. ↑ Anke Schlicht: A place of eternity full of stories on cellesche-zeitung.de from July 30, 2015, last accessed on April 14, 2016.
5. ↑ Peter Fehlhaber: Honorary Prize for Sabine Maehnert on the website of the online newspaper celleheute.de of June 8, 2012, last accessed on April 14, 2016.