Swabian Research Association

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The Swabian Research Association ( SFG for short ), based in Augsburg , was founded in 1949 and, according to its statutes, has committed itself to "the planned scientific research and processing of the history and regional studies of Bavarian Swabia and the publication of relevant sources and research results".

history

The association is an institution that emerged from the constraints of the immediate post-war period. In the talks held since July 1947 with the then chairman of the Munich Commission for Bavarian State History , the historian Max Spindler (1894–1986), the negotiators came to the decision to build up a community of volunteer researchers. This was much easier to accomplish than setting up a local institute that would have required a fixed budget and an establishment plan. Spindler commissioned the home keeper Alfred Weitnauer (1905–1974), the diocese historian and priest Friedrich Zoepfl (1885–1973) and the dialect researcher Eduard Nübling (1906–1997) to draft a statute and to recruit all the relevant historical care forces in Swabia for the new organization . Spindler saw in the historian Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz (1906-1967) the most suitable person to take over the scientific supervision of the new research community.

On October 2, 1948, the Commission for Bavarian State History decided to approve the establishment of the Swabian Research Association. This was followed on October 18, 1949 in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg, the foundation of the community as an independent body of the Commission for Bavarian State History. Since 1980 there has been close cooperation with the Chair for Bavarian and Swabian Regional History at the University of Augsburg , in whose rooms the Swabian Research Association is also housed. On 12 February 1993, the establishment by founding a was registered association legally independent, but continues to work closely with the Commission for Bavarian history together, which for this purpose together with the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture , the Swabian Research Center Augsburg founded, the is housed in the premises of the Swabian Research Association.

tasks

The association commissions experts to research and work on the history and regional studies of Bavarian Swabia and publishes the results in its series of publications. In cooperation with the Swabian Research Center Augsburg , it also publishes the Historical Atlas of Bavarian Swabia , the second edition of which has now been published.

Members

According to the statutes, the number of members is limited to 30 - but this does not include people who are older than 70 years or who live outside Bavaria or the Swabian-Alemannic-speaking area . The members come from the fields of archeology , monument preservation , geography , history , art history , literary studies , linguistics and folklore .

Executive board

Scientific board

  • 1949–1960 Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz
  • 1960–1979 Norbert Lieb
  • 1979–1984 Wolfgang Zorn

1993 reorganization as a non-profit association

First chairman

  • 1984-2000 Pankraz Fried
  • 2001–2016 Rolf Kießling
  • since 2016 Gerhard Hetzer

Second chairman

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft: Official website - Accessed July 7, 2011.
  2. ^ Eduard Nübling: 30 years of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Address from 1979 . In: Pankraz Fried (Ed.): 50 Years of the Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft (=  studies on the history of Bavarian Swabia 26), Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-922518-26-6 , pp. 147 ff .; here: p. 150.
  3. ↑ a b c Augsburger Stadtlexikon - The city history of Augsburg: Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft eV - Retrieved on July 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Swabian Research Center Augsburg: List of publications - Accessed July 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c d Doris Pfister, Angela Schlenkrich: The members of the Swabian Research Association . In: Pankraz Fried (Ed.): 50 Years of the Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft (=  Studies on the History of Bavarian Swabia 26), Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-922518-26-6 , pp. 141 ff .; here: p. 141.
  6. ↑ Hetzer was head of the Bavarian Main State Archives from 2007 to 2018
  7. ^ Rolf Kießling: Swabian Research Association. Report on the annual meeting on October 18, 2003 in Augsburg . In: Journal for Bavarian State History 66, 3, 2003, pp. 1158–1159; here: p. 1158.

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