Ulf Beier

Ulf Beier (born May 1, 1941 in Eger , Sudetenland) is a German author , onomastic and local researcher .

Life

Ulf Beier was born as the eldest son of the graduate engineer Ulf Beier and his wife Marianne in Eger. After the death of his mother and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , he was first placed in an orphanage . After the father remarried, the new family came to Munich after many stops . He passed the Abitur in 1961 and studied at the University of Education in Munich with additional exams in Protestant religion and English for teaching at elementary schools. In 1971 he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in German and geography and taught at the state secondary school in Weißenburg from 1971 to 2003 . Since the 1980s he has published numerous articles on names, local and local history and three books.

In 1968 he married Gisela, b. Hanfler. The family has two grown sons, one daughter died in childhood.

Works (selection)

• From Höll- to Paradeisgasse. Street and residential names in Weißenburg . Weißenburg 1991, 2nd expanded edition 2000.
• Weissenburger field name book . Weißenburg 1995.
• The street names of Suffersheim In: Suffersheim. From Suberesheim to the district of Weißenburg i. Bay. 867-1996 . Weissenburg 1996.
• The course of the European main watershed in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district. In: Globulus, contributions of the Natural and Cultural Science Society e. V. Eichstätt 1999.
• Weißenburg i. Bay. and surroundings 1950-2000. Geographical-historical-social studies of the immediate area. Community work . Weißenburg 2001.
• Names of waters in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district. In: Leaves for Upper German Name Research. Munich 2007.
• Names of exiles in the Weißenburg area . In: villa nostra . Weissenburg 2009.
• The name Weißenburg in European comparison . In: villa nostra . Weissenburg 2013.

Web links

• Ulf Beier on wugwiki