Ulrich Fox (local history researcher)

Ulrich Fox (born March 5, 1937 in Alt Wartenburg , Warmia ; † April 27, 2012 in Paderborn ) was a German engineer , non-fiction author and local researcher .

Life

Ulrich Fox grew up in Warmia, first attended elementary school, continued his education in the People's Republic of Poland after 1945 and passed the Matura in Olsztyn in May 1956. He enrolled at the Technical University in Szczecin and studied engineering . In 1959, as part of the family reunification , he moved with his mother and siblings to the Federal Republic of Germany and arrived in Paderborn . Ulrich Fox continued his technical studies, which he had started in Poland, at the Technical University in Aachen until 1964 , married Ursula Suray in 1966 , continued his education and completed his habilitation after years in Münster, Westphalia .

His early interest was in local research in historical Warmia, especially in the Allenstein district . He was a member of the Historical Association for Warmia eV in Münster, the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia and, in addition to technical books, published several relevant books and articles on local history research in Warmia.

For years he was a member of Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk eV in Freiburg . He and his wife developed a special commitment after retirement - they invited concentration camp and ghetto survivors from Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus to Germany, looked after them during their stays and organized contemporary witness projects in schools to bring back the painful memories of the Nazi victims to pass on to young people. These encounters built visual bridges between the witnesses of the past and the young people as designers of the future.

Awards

In recognition of their voluntary and social commitment, Federal President Horst Köhler and his wife Eva Luise Köhler awarded Ulrich and Ursula Fox the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on October 5, 2009 in Berlin . The Apostolic Visitor of the Archdiocese of Warmia Lothar Schlegel brought his congratulations.

Fonts

Books

• Technical building equipment, building services. Calculation examples . Bauverlag, Wiesbaden 1982.
• Building technology in residential construction. Planning, execution, consumption, conversion . Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1995; ISBN 3-17-013056-0 .
  • Translation E. Sylwestrzak-Kowalska: Techniki instalacyjne w budownictwie mieszkaniowym . Arkady, Warszawa 1998, ISBN 83-213-4011-3 .
• Finite element simulation of high temperature nozzle flows . ( Dissertation Technical University Aachen ), Shaker Verlag , Aachen 1999, ISBN 978-3-8265-4672-3 .
• Parish Alt-Wartenburg in Warmia. With Jadden - Tengutten - Tollack. 1325-1985 . Self-published , Paderborn 1989.
• Books of the dead 1830–1876 and cemetery documentation 1990–1992 of the Alt-Wartenburg parish in Warmia . Association for family research in East and West Prussia . Oberhausen 1996, ISBN 3-931577-03-1 .
• Autobiography : Southern Warmia. Growing up - leaving - arriving. An East Prussian regional chronicle. Self-published, Paderborn 2007.

Other publications

• Wspólnota warmińska na przykładzie wsi Alt Wartenburg, Stary Wartenbork, Barczewko . Borussia Foundation No. 3/4, Olsztyn 1992, pp. 34-44.
• Bishop Maximilian Kaller and the Polish- speaking pastoral care in the Diocese of Warmia . In: Altertumskunde Ermlands 49/1999, pp. 152–155.
• The dispute between Bishop Maximilian Kallers and the state over the occupation of the Warmia canonics (1931–1944) . Reprint 2002.
• with Ursula Fox: Alt Wartenburg / Barczewko . Renowacja wiejskiego domku . In: Zachowane - ocalone. O krajobrazie kulturowym i sposobach jego kształtowania. Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2003, ISBN 83-89233-04-5 , pp. 219-225.
• Pastor Maximilian Kaller and the Polish reapers on Rügen (1905–1917) . In: Our Ermländische Heimat, bulletin of the PDB for Ermland No. 3/2004, p. XI.
• The trial of the cathedral capitular Josef Steinki and four other priests in 1941 . Reprint, Münster 2005.
• Bishop Philipp Krementz and the apparitions in Dietrichswalde in 1877. To a publication by Hubert Orłowski . In: Our Ermändische Heimat, bulletin of the PDB for Ermland, Pentecost 2/2006, p. VII.
• Out and about with the Maximilian Kolbe factory. Volgograd - Saratov - Moscow Region . Warmia Book 2008, pp. 205–215.
• Groß Purden 1900–2006 - Portrait of a village. To the second volume of the publication series of the Kulturgemeinschaft Borussia . In: Warmia letters Easter 2009, insert Historical Association for Warmia, pp. III – IV.
• The reception of the events in Dietrichswalde by the Ermländer with reference to the commitment of Bishop Maximilian Kaller . In: Sedes sapientiae Mariological Yearbook, Volume 13 / Volume 2, Kevelaer 2009.
• posthumously : Maximilian Tarnowski - Archpriest of Wartenburg . In: 43rd Heimatjahrbuch der Kreisgemeinschaft Allenstein-Land eV , Christmas 2012, pp. 108–109.

literature

• Wolf Oschlies : On the memories of Ulrich Fox; Southern Warmia. Growing up - leaving - arriving . In: Ermlandbuch 2008, pp. 177–186.
• Horst Tungutke: On the death of Professor Ulrich Fox . In: 43rd Heimatjahrbuch der Kreisgemeinschaft Allenstein-Land eV, Christmas 2012, pp. 145–146.
• Hans-Jürgen Karp : Bibliography Ulrich Fox . In: Our Warmth Home , newsletter of PDB No. 3–4 / Christmas 2012, p. VIII.

Web links

• Federal Cross of Merit for the Fox couple.
• Writing down stories while they are being told.