Volkmar Wittmütz

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Volkmar Wittmütz (born April 30, 1940 in Bremen ) is a German historian and educator .

Wittmütz studied history, English and Romance languages ​​and received his doctorate in 1970 from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1981 he qualified as a professor at the comprehensive university in Wuppertal . There he taught as an adjunct professor for regional history and early modern times . He taught at an evening grammar school in Wuppertal . For a time he was chairman of the Wuppertal department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein .

His main research interests are church history as well as regional and local history .

Fonts

  • The gravamina of the Bavarian estates in the 16th and 17th centuries as a source for the economic situation and development of Bavaria. Wölfle, Munich 1970.
  • Citizens' School. The higher school in Wuppertal 1800–1850 in the field of tension between the civic will to shape and state regulation. Hammer, Wuppertal 1981.
  • 100 years of Bergische Diakonie Aprath. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1982.
  • with Peter Andreas: Langenberger traces reading. Portraits from three centuries 1638–1895. Scala, Velbert 2010.
  • A brief history of the Wuppertal town. Pustet, Regensburg 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. Edition 10.2012/2013. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10079-3 , p. 634 f.
personal data
SURNAME Wittmütz, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen