Werner Chrobak

Werner Chrobak (* 1948 in Flossenbürg ) is a German historian and city caretaker in Regensburg .

Life

Werner Chrobak was born in Flossenbürg as the son of a machine fitter and graduated from high school in 1968. He then attended the Regensburg seminary to become a Catholic priest. After the fourth semester, he left the seminary and studied in sequence at the local university graduate theology and history. In 1979 he completed his dissertation. In 1981 he took over the management of the Episcopal Central Library. There he was responsible for scientific advice in general, a large number of exhibitions and for manuscript and incunabula care. Most recently, Chrobak was senior librarian and deputy director of the Paul Mai archive until he retired in 2013.

After he was chairman of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg for a long time , he was made an honorary member. Chrobak has been a volunteer home nurse of the city of Regensburg since 1998. In the Teutonic Order he is a commandery council.

criticism

Werner Chrobak encouraged Robert Bürger to report on his Regensburg report in the last days of the war and supported him in adding sources, making corrections and making the printing. In addition, Chrobak made it possible to publish the article in the publishing house of the Historisches Verein für Oberpfalz and Regensburg and wrote a foreword to it, which emphasizes the source-based security of the report. In his essay, Bürger stylized himself as the savior of Regensburg, who saved the city in April 1945 from the destruction allegedly already underway by the American troops. As a result, Chrobak built on citizens for his own work on the cathedral preacher Johann Maier . In this context, he interviewed the staff officer Othmar Matzke in February 1985 , who fundamentally denied Bürger's information. The written copy of the interview with Matzke was lost until the end of 2012. Since Chrobak kept silent or ignored the adverse statements made by contemporary witness Matzke, he came under criticism for disregarding elementary scientific standards. A review of the end of the war in Regensburg based on scientific criteria was published in 2019.

Fonts

• Blessed Theresia von Jesu Gerhardinger (1797–1879), a life for church and school (= catalogs and writings / Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv and Bischöfliches Zentralbibliothek Regensburg, Vol. 13), 1997.
• The German Katholikentag 1904 in Regensburg and the reconstruction of the Bischofshof in 1904/2004 (= exhibition of the Bischofshof brewery in the Regensburg Episcopal Central Library), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004.
• Cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier - a martyr for Regensburg . In: Negotiations of the Historical Association of Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate (VHVO) 125, 1985, pp. 453–484.
• together with Paul Mai: Konrad von Megenberg Regensburg canon, cathedral priest and scholar (1309–1374) (= exhibition in the episcopal central library on the 700th birthday). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009.
• together with Wilhelm Bunz: Cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier 50 years later (Cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier and his time. Exhibition in the Episcopal Central Library). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1995.

Web links

• City home administrator of the city of Regensburg
• Literature by and about Werner Chrobak in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Werner Chrobak: Political parties, associations and clubs in Regensburg 1869–1914 . In: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 1982.
2. ↑ Helmut Wanner: Werner Chrobak awakens love for Regensburg - city mission. In: Helmut Wanner: "Have the honor" . MZ-Verlag, Regensburg 2009, pp. 24-27.
3. ↑ Commandery on the Danube ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website of the Teutonic Order). 
4. ^ Robert Bürger: Regensburg in the last days of the war , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association of Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate (VHVO) 123, 1983, pp. 379–394.
5. ↑ Werner Chrobak: Cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier - a martyr for Regensburg . In: Negotiations of the Historical Association of Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate (VHVO) 125, 1985, pp. 453–484.
6. ^ Politics of the past a la city archivist. How Regensburg wanted to deal with the “Othmar Matzke case” (report on Regensburg-Digital from June 21, 2012, last accessed in Dec. 2013).
7. ^ Historical clutter in a scientific guise (report on Regensburg-Digital from August 28, 2012, last accessed in Dec. 2013).
8. ^ Rainer Ehm, Roman Smolorz , Konrad Zrenner: April 1945: The end of the war in the Regensburg area (Regensburg - UNESCO World Heritage Site) . Verlag Pustet , Regensburg 2019, ISBN 9783791730417 .