Walter Lorenz (historian)

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Walter Lorenz (born November 4, 1921 in Coburg ; † January 24, 2007 in Remscheid ) was a German historian and archivist of the Remscheid City Archives .

Live and act

Walter Lorenz studied in Bamberg and Erlangen and received his doctorate with a thesis on the Sonnefeld Monastery (“De campus solis”). From 1971 he was archivist of the Remscheid City Archives and first chairman of the Remscheid department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . He was also the author of articles in the Neue Deutsche Biographie .

Awards and honors

  • Rhineland thaler 1989 for services to the history of the city of Remscheid
  • Honorary member of the Bergisches Historisches Verein
  • The naming of the Dr.-Walter-Lorenz-Weg in Remscheid (2010)

Works

  • Gohr, Nievenheim, Straberg. Sources on the history of the Nievenheim office, its residents and settlements 1. Part Bonn Rheinland-Verlag 1973
  • Gohr, Nievenheim, Straberg. Sources on the history of the Nievenheim office, its residents and settlements 2nd part Bonn Rheinland-Verlag 1974
  • Remscheid on old postcards , Braun, Duisburg 1979
  • 75 years of Remscheid Town Hall , 1981
  • 175 years of the city of Remscheid , 1983
  • The rural community of Fifteenhöfe. Becoming and decaying a formerly independent community . In: Geschichte & Heimat , Volume 59, No. 7; Verlag JF Ziegler, Remscheid 1992
  • Cityscapes from Remscheid , 1999, ISBN 3-931554-76-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Processing of the estate of Dr. Walter Lorenz 1921–2007 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed June 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-remscheid.de
  2. ↑ List of authors , accessed on December 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Signs for the Dr.-Walter-Lorenz-Weg meeting on May 25, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist of the Remscheid City Archives
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2007
Place of death Remscheid