Wilhelm Bauer (local history researcher, 1924)

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Wilhelm Bauer (born November 17, 1924 in Sinsheim an der Elsenz ; † February 7, 2013 there ) was a German homeland researcher .

biography

After an apprenticeship as a bookbinder, Bauer did military service from 1942 to 1945. After the war he worked first in agriculture, then in publishing. In 1949 he married his wife Maria. He was a surveyor's assistant until 1952, then worked in an enamelling factory. In 1954/55 he retrained to become a surveying technician. He then worked as a surveying technician in the Sinsheim land consolidation office until his retirement.

He made a name for himself as a regional historian through the publication of 16 issues of his Sinsheimer Hefte with a total of over 2500 pages, with many pictures, certificates, documents, plans, maps and statistics on the Sinsheim city history and a detailed chronology of Sinsheim. He passed on historical information in local history publications in regional newspapers, festival publications by associations - especially Hundred Years of Sinsheim Foal Market . Bauer was the initiator of the exhibitions 300th Anniversary of the Destruction of Sinsheim in 1689 (1989) and History of the Jewish Citizens in the Sinsheim Area (1988). In three years of work from 1999 to 2002 he worked on the transfer of the Protestant and Catholic parish registers of Sinsheim from 1690 to 1900 with over 30,000 entries. The result is an electronic database with all relevant entries in these church registers. He organized tours. Topic were z. B. the Sinsheimer mills, the Jewish cemeteries Sinsheim and Waibstadt, the city cemetery, the tombs of the churches in Neidenstein and Hilsbach and the Protestant church Sinsheim. Bauer also published cheerful satirical time-critical dialect poems.

In 1994 he received the Karl Wilhelmi honorary coin of the city of Sinsheim, named after the dean and antiquity researcher Karl Wilhelmi , in 1998 the badge for homeland care of the working group homeland care of the district of Karlsruhe , in 2005 the honorary citizenship of the city of Sinsheim and in 2012 the homeland medal of the state of Baden-Württemberg .

Wilhelm Bauer died on February 7, 2013 at the age of 88 in his native Sinsheim.

The “Sinsheimer Hefte” and many of his as yet unpublished stories are carefully digitized, archived, revised and published in Sinsheim as new editions for special occasions by Rudolf Barg and Walter Hentschel.

Publications

Sinsheimer booklets

  • Volume 1: The members of the Reichstag and Bundestag in the Sinsheim constituency from 1871 to 1990
  • Volume 2: Sinsheims Schultheißen, mayor and town clerk from 1400 to 1990
  • Volume 3: Alt-Sinsheimer stories
  • Volume 4: The members of the state parliament of the Sinsheim constituency from 1819 to 1992
  • Volume 5: Reviews - of streets, houses and people in the Amsstadt Sinsheim in Baden
  • Volume 6: Modern Times - Stories of Post Office, Railroad, Electricity, Water Pipe, Automobile and Other Conveniences
  • Volume 7: Sketches of a small town in Baden
  • Volume 8: Evidence of Sinsheim Church History
  • Volume 9: Sinsheimer Leben - Contemplations in stories and pictures
  • Volume 10: The former Jewish community of Sinsheim
  • Volume 11: Blown traces - historical information about the Sinsheim elementary schools and mills, and other stories
  • Volume 12: Sinsheim 1933–1945 - Attempt at political documentation
  • Volume 13: Sinsheim - From Frankendorf to the large district town ~ A chronology
  • Volume 14: Sinsheim 1950–2010 - A small town in transition
  • Volume 15: 3 centuries of restaurants in Sinsheim
  • Volume 16: Whoever does not advertise dies

Other unnumbered volumes

  • Directory of the victims of the world wars
  • Directory of honorary citizens of the city of Sinsheim
  • Literary slaughter plate. Poems in Sinsheim dialect

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  • Obituaries on February 12, 2013 in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
  • "Whole city benefited from Wilhelm Bauer's research", article on the occasion of the award of the home medal of Baden-Württemberg, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of October 4, 2012, (reprinted in: Kompaß des Kraichgau, issue 4/2012, p. 1f)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Sinsheim, Wilhelm Bauer receives Heimatmedaille , in: sinsheim-local
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinsheim
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2013
Place of death Sinsheim