Walter KB wood

Memorial stone for Walter KB Holz in the Hagener Volkspark

Walter Karl Borislaw Holz (born May 11, 1908 in Hagen ; † June 24, 1993 ) was an archivist for the city of Hagen and founder of the Hagen planetary model (first published in the Hagen local calendar, November 1959). After training as a surveying technician at the city of Hagen, he was employed in this profession in the land registry and surveying office from 1928. After 1933 he was promoted to surveying inspector.

In 1936, on the instructions of the Mayor of Hagen, Heinrich Vetter, together with other people, including the Hagen museum director Gerhard Brüns, he began to prepare a documentary on the history of the city, which was to appear in 1946 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city of Hagen. According to documents in the former Berlin Document Center (Bundesarchiv Berlin), Holz was press manager in the HJ ban Hagen-Mark and since 1937, before he was a “party candidate”, he was also a member of the NSDAP .

After his military service and a short-term prisoner of war, Holz resumed his work for the city of Hagen in 1946. On September 3, 1946, he played a key role in the historical presentation for the 200th anniversary of the city in Hagen. On the occasion of this event he made his first public appearance as a local researcher . In 1947 he published his most important historical work “A Millennium Hagen”, which was based on his research since 1936. He then became an employee of the Hagen city archive, which he took over in 1949. Not before 1945, but from 1947 at the latest, in addition to his first name, he also had the additions “Karl” and “Borislaw”.

In addition to taking care of the planetary model, he was very committed to the art and history of the Hagen region. In 1962 he founded the Westphalian Music Archive and the Westphalian Literature Archive , which are now part of the Hagen Historical Center . In addition to these activities, Holz also dealt with mathematical issues. In 1984, for example, he proposed a new nomenclature for number theory and dealt with questions about triangles whose sides consist of arcs , so-called three circles . He developed so-called time tables and his own organizational guidelines for archiving, but these were rejected by experts as unscientific. Between 1945 and 1985, according to the findings of his biographer Ralf Blank , wood determined how Hagen came to terms with the past of National Socialism and the Second World War. As the first archivist in Germany, he tried to set up an “aerial warfare archive” in the 1950s.

Main publications

• Walter Holz: honoring the German dead in the past and future , Leipzig 1940
• Walter KB Holz: A Millennium Room Hagen , Hagen 1947
• Walter KB Holz: Development of the historical property in the Hagen city archive , in: Der Archivar, 8, 1955
• Walter KB Holz: If the sun were on the town hall ... , Hagen home calendar for 1960, Hagen, 1959
• Walter KB Holz: Orthodox Archival Thinking or History Offices , Hagen 1979
• Walter KB Holz: Standardized formula language for number theory , Hagen, 1984
• Walter KB Holz: 30 years of the Hagen planetary model 1959–1989 , in: Heimatbuch Hagen + Mark, 1989

See also

• Formula of wood

Literature on wood

• Ralf Blank : Destroyed and forgotten? Hagen, the Ruhr area and the memory of the war. In: Jörg Arnold / Dietmar Süß / Malte Thießen (eds.): The “catastrophe” in European memory - memory of the aerial warfare 1940–2000. Göttingen 2009, pp. 162-182.