Wilhelm Lührs

This article is about the archive director. For the politician of the same name see Wilhelm Lührs (politician)

Wilhelm Lührs (born April 3, 1928 in Bremen , † October 13, 1992 in Bremen) was a German archive director.

biography

Lührs was the son of an engineer. After graduating from high school, he studied history, English and geography at the University of Kiel . In 1955 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. and joined the archive service of the city of Bremen as a trainee lawyer . He attended the Marburg Archive School from 1955 to 1957 . In Bremen he became archivist, senior archivist and from 1973 archivist and deputy head of the state archives . He published various works, including a. a chronicle about Mayor Christian Abraham Heineken (1983) and about the gouaches by the Austrian painter and engraver Anton Radl .

Works

• The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and England during the German Confederation (1815–1867) . Bremen 1958 ( digitized version )
• Wilhelm Lührs and Walter Menges: Bremen is building - shape, structure and remarkable buildings of the city . HM Hauschild, Bremen 1963
• Lührs, Peters, Schwebel, Karl: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962 . Ed .: Historical Society Bremen and State Archive Bremen , Hauschildverlag, Bremen 1969
• The Domshof - history of a square in Bremen ; Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1987, ISBN 978-3-920699-87-5
• Views of Bremen by Anton Radl and Lars Lohrisch in 1818 and 1988 . In: Storck: Views of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen and its surroundings . 1988

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .