Wilhelm Störmer

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Wilhelm Störmer (born September 13, 1928 in Faulbach ; † February 16, 2015 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Wilhelm Störmer grew up in Faulbach and Munich. He attended high school in Wertheim and graduated from high school in 1950. From 1950 to 1955 he studied history, German and geography at the universities of Munich , Marburg and Würzburg . During this time he became a member of the Christian student associations Munich Wingolf and Chattia Würzburg in the Wingolfsbund . In 1957 he passed the state examination. In the same year his doctorate took place in Würzburg with the work supervised by Karl Bosl "The development of rule since the early Middle Ages, the political structure at the end of the Old Empire and the formation of Bavarian authorities in the Marktheidenfeld district (Ufr.)" . Störmer taught as a study assessor until he became an assistant to Karl Bosl at the Institute for Bavarian History at the University of Munich in 1965. In 1970/71 he completed his habilitation in Munich with the thesis "Nobility groups in early and high medieval Bavaria" . In 1973 Störmer became a university lecturer and in 1977 an adjunct professor. From 1977 until his retirement in 1993 Störmer was Professor of Middle and Modern History at the Institute for Bavarian History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He headed the Franconian editorial team of the Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Störmer had been a member of the Society for Franconian History since 1978 .

His main research interests were the regional history of southern Germany, the constitutional history , nobility , church, manorial rule and the city in the Franconian and old Bavarian regions. He submitted more than 180 publications. Fundamental to researching the early and high medieval nobility from Bavarian sources was the description of nobility groups in early and high medieval Bavaria published in 1972 and the work Früh Adel published in 1973 . Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire from the 8th to the 11th century. With the volume Franconia from the Migration Period to 1268, Störmer presented a representative selection of sources on the history of Franconia from the 5th century to the Staufer period . In addition, he published the brief overview of The Baiuwaren. From the Great Migration to Tassilo III. in the popular series CH Beck Wissen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Marktheidenfeld (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Franconia, series 1, issue 10). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1962 (revised dissertation, University of Würzburg, 1957/58). ( Digitized version )
  • Aristocratic groups in early and high medieval Bavaria (= studies on Bavarian constitutional and social history. Vol. 4). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7696-9877-7 (complete at the same time: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1970–1971 under the title: Störmer, Wilhelm: Früh Adel).
  • Early nobility. Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire from the 8th to the 11th century. 2 volumes. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-7772-7307-4 .
  • with Roland Vocke: Miltenberg. The Amorbach and Miltenberg offices of the Mainzer Oberstift as models of spiritual territoriality and intensification of power (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Franconia, series 1, no. 25). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7696-9919-X .
  • Hartmann von Aue. Epoch - work - effect. Beck, Munich 1985; 3rd, updated edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-37629-0 .
  • (Processing) Franconia from the migration period to 1268 (= documents on the history of the state and society in Bavaria. Dept. 2: Franconia and Swabia from the early Middle Ages to 1800. Vol. 1). Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7696-9702-2 .
  • The Baiuwaren. From the Great Migration to Tassilo III. ( CH Beck knowledge ). Beck, Munich 1999; 2nd, revised and updated edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-47981-6 .
  • Medieval monasteries and monasteries in Bavaria and Franconia. Essays by Wilhelm Störmer. Edited by Elisabeth Lukas-Götz, Ferdinand Kramer , Andreas Otto Weber. EOS, St. Ottilien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8306-7355-2 .

literature

  • Enno Bünz : Wilhelm Störmer (1928–2015). In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 151 (2017), pp. 675–679.
  • Elisabeth Lukas-Götz, Ferdinand Kramer, Johannes Merz (eds.): Sources on the constitutional, social and economic history of Bavarian cities in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Ceremony for Wilhelm Störmer on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= materials on Bavarian national history. Vol. 11). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7696-0411-3 .
  • Peter Claus Hartmann : Obituary Wilhelm Störmer (1928–2015). In: Journal for Bavarian State History , Vol. 78.1, 2015, pp. 231–233.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary notice from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 18, 2015, SZ-Gedenken.de, accessed on February 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Association of Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum. 25th edition. Hanover 2012, p. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Störmer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Faulbach
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2015
Place of death Munich