Wilhelm Weyer (local history researcher)

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Wilhelm Weyer (born January 15, 1891 in Dreis-Tiefenbach , † February 28, 1971 in Berlin ) was a local researcher and educator from Siegerland .

From 1946 to 1949, Weyer, who also worked as an author and a doctor of philosophy, headed the Siegerland Museum in Upper Siegen Castle . The effectiveness that Weyer developed as a board member of the Siegerland Heimatverein as well as the managing director of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Museum of the Siegerland is indispensable in the history of the museum. It is largely thanks to his efforts that one of the most important pieces in this collection, the “Caritas Romana” painted by Peter Paul Rubens, reached Siegen. After his retirement in 1956, Weyer moved to his “retirement paradise” in Utting am Ammersee for health reasons, where he dealt with local history and theological issues every day from morning to night, finished the book about the Flender family and at the local monastery school gave German lessons on a voluntary basis. In 1958 he received the Federal Cross of Merit. Weyer was mentally vital until his death, which occurred after a third stroke in a Berlin hospital. The ashes of this man, who is very deserving of Siegerland, rests in his mother's grave in Dreis-Tiefenbach.

Publications

Independent publications

  • Laasphe and the upper Lahn valley. Siegen 1925
  • The beginnings of the Prussian House and Police Minister Prince Wilhelm Ludwig Georg zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1770–1806). Laasphe 1927
  • History of the Flender Family - Volume 2: From the time of the Thirty Years War to the present. 1961
  • Siegerland contributions to history and regional studies, booklet 11. - Life and customs in the Netpherland around 1900. Publisher: Siegerländer Heimatverein, Siegen 1963
  • Siegen lives. A city under reconstruction. Photographic documentation by Wilhelm Weyer. Summer 1951 and summer 1952. Ursula Blanchebarbe (Ed.), Siegen 2000

Articles and contributions

  • The Upper Castle to Siegen. In: Siegerland. 27 (1950), H. 3, pp. 81-93.
  • Contribution in Hans Kruse (Ed.): Siegen and the Siegerland 1224–1924. Festschrift on the occasion of the seven centuries of the castle and city of Siegen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turned the page back ... In: Siegener Zeitung. March 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Dorothea Istock: 100 Years of the Siegerland Museum in the Upper Castle in Siegen . (PDF, 580 kB) In: durchblick , Edition 2/2005, pp. 6–8. Retrieved on July 10, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Steel trade, metal processing and mechanization in the Bergisches Land (PDF file, 324 kB)
  4. ↑ More prosperity through better economic activity (PDF file, 986 kB)
  5. ^ Genealogisch-Heraldische Gesellschaft (Ed.): The key. Volume 7, p. 55.
  6. ↑ List of the sheets of the Association for Heimatkunde and Heimatschutz in Siegerland including neighboring areas ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on klschmidt.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klschmidt.de
  7. ^ Entry on Siegen, Oberes Schloss in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 17, 2016.
  8. ^ People's soul in dialect poetry . In: Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Siegerländer Heimatkalender 2001 . 76th edition. Verlag für Heimatliteratur, p. 90 .
personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreis-Tiefenbach
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1971
Place of death Berlin