Walther Herrmann

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Paul Daniel Walther Herrmann (born January 12, 1884 in Reichenau i. Saxony , † August 4, 1979 in Freiberg ) was a German teacher and local researcher . He made particular contributions to researching the history of the mountain town of Freiberg.

Life

From 1905 Walther Hermann studied German, geography and history at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1910 he did his doctorate with Albert Köster with Theodor Storm's poetry (test drives, vol. 1 7). He then worked as a teacher in Zwickau and Zittau, from 1913 on as a student councilor in Freiberg and most recently as senior director of studies there. From 1925 until its dissolution in 1945, he headed the Freiberg Antiquities Association, which was re-established in 1990. In 1948 he founded the Working Group on History in the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany in Freiberg, which he headed until 1962.

He was also a lecturer at the adult education center and at the Bergakademie in Freiberg.

Fonts

  • On the history of Freiberg Jewry , In: Heimatwarte , Bautzen, Vol. 1 (1939), p. 1
  • Friedrich the Great and Freiberg , Freiberg i. Sat, 1942
  • Mining and culture. Contributions to the history of Freiberg mining and the mining academy , Berlin 1953 (= Freiberg research books D 2)
  • Goethe and Trebra. Friendship and exchange between Weimar and Freiberg (= Freiberger Forschungshefte D 9)
  • (with Helmut Wilsdorf and Kurt Löffler): Mining forest rafts, studies on the history of rafting in the service of mining and the mining transport problem (= Freiberg research booklet D 28), Berlin 1960
  • History of acting in Freiberg , Berlin 1960
  • Bergrat Henckel. A pioneer of the Bergakademie , Berlin 1962 (Reprint 2005) (= Freiberger Forschungshefte 37)
  • The Freiberger Bürgerbuch 1486–1605 , Dresden 1965 (= sources and research on Saxon history 2)

Honors

literature

  • Mining and miners. New contributions to the history of mining and geology. Walther Herrmann on his 70th birthday , Berlin 1955, pp. 9–14 (Freiberger Forschungshefte, Series D Culture and Technology 11)
  • Erhard Banitz: Committed to the history of his city: On the 100th birthday of Freiberg historian Dr. Walther Herrmann . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , Vol. 30, 1984, Issue 2, p. 238.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1962, p. 206
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrmann, Paul Daniel Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau i. Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1979
Place of death Freiberg