Wilhelm Hartmann (local history researcher)

Wilhelm Hartmann (* 1890 ; † 1974 ) was a German regional historian and local researcher in Hildesheim . His main occupation was the director of a middle school in Hildesheim.

In 1963 he received the Brothers Grimm Medal from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for his scientific work on research into the history of Lower Saxony and the development of important non-governmental archives (laudation).

After the destruction of its archives in the Second World War during the bombing of Hanover, the city ​​of Salzdetfurth commissioned him to build up a collection of sources, which he presented in 1951 (Urkundenbuch der Stadt Bad Salzdetfurth, 388 documents from 1194 to 1949).

In Hildesheim he discovered a copy of the Singing Library by Johann Christoph Losius (1708) in the cathedral library , the notes of which are attributed to Georg Philipp Telemann , who grew up in Hildesheim.

He also contributed to the history of Springe and Wunstorf .

Fonts

• The witch trials of the city of Hildesheim, sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony 35, Leipzig 1927
• History of the town of Springe from the first mention of the settlement around the year 1000 to the end of the 18th century, in: Geschichte der Stadt Springe am Deister, Springe 1954, pp. 16–120
• Editor with Rudolf Zoder: The Mayor. According to the diary of Hildesheim Mayor Henning Brandis (1453–1529), Hildesheim 1956
• Editor with Heinrich Ohlendorf: History of the City of Wunstorf, Wunstorf 1957
• The “Schoduvel” and the Schauteufelskreuz in old Hildesheim, in: Alt-Hildesheim, Volume 34, 1963, pp. 33-44

Web links

• Opac Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of life according to a list of the estates in Hildesheim
2. ^ Arcinsys Lower Saxony and Bremen , Bad Salzdetfurth
3. ↑ Birgit Jürgens, Telemanns early composition workshop, Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, June 24, 2017, p. 24