Ulrich Niess

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Ulrich Niess (born July 27, 1960 in Trier ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Ulrich Nieß graduated from Saarbrücken University in 1987 with the 1st state examination in history, mathematics and social studies. Funded by the German National Academic Foundation , he did his doctorate in 1990 under Reinhard Schneider on a topic on the history of the medieval German order. After working as a research assistant in Saarbrücken at the chairs of Jörg K. Hoensch and Reinhard Schneider, he completed a legal clerkship for the higher archives service in Karlsruhe, Marburg and Bonn from 1991 to 1993 and, after completing his training, moved to the Mannheim City Archives, where he was also the head of the interim archive EDP ​​took over. At the end of 2000 he was appointed director of the Mannheim City Archives, succeeding Jörg Schadt , which was given the addition of City Archives Mannheim - Institute for City History in 2004 and renamed MARCHIVUM in March 2018 . In 2016 the University of Mannheim appointed him honorary professor.

Services

Under the direction of Ulrich Nieß, the Mannheim City Archive - ISG, together with its two sponsoring associations, the Mannheim Architecture and Building Archive and the Association of Friends of the City Archives - ISG, strengthened its publication and exhibition activities on topics about the history of the city of Mannheim and the neighboring region . He himself wrote numerous essays and articles on the history of Mannheim. Among the publications he edited, the three-volume history of the city of Mannheim, published between 2007 and 2009, and the six-volume work Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007 stand out. In 2006 Nieß was appointed Chief City Archives Director and in 2011 City Director. He is u. a. Reviewer at the German Research Foundation, member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, on the board of the Association of German Archivists and at the Federal Conference of Local Archives in the German Association of Cities.

Awards

  • 1993: 1st science award from the East German Cultural Council Foundation
  • 2011: Bloomaulorden

Fonts (selection)

  • Grand Master Karl von Trier (1311-1324): Stations of a career in the Teutonic Order (sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order 47), Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-7708-0976-9
  • The deceptive idyll - Carl Spitzweg and the Mannheimer Kunstverein. With a contribution to the holdings of the Kunstverein im Stadtarchiv (Kleine Schriften des Stadtarchiv Mannheim 8), Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3-926260-35-1
  • (zs. with Michael Oberweis) A rebellious village and a trapped Pope. Mannheim before the city was founded (Kleine Schriften des Stadtarchivs 21), Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-926260-61-0
  • (Ed. Zs. With Michael Caroli): History of the City of Mannheim , 3 vols., Ed. on behalf of the city of Mannheim, Heidelberg a. a. 2007-2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-487-6

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Dr. Ulrich Nieß receives honorary professorship at the University of Mannheim University of Mannheim July 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Niess, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH trier