York-Egbert King

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York-Egbert König (* 1949 in Eschwege ) is a German historian and author of numerous works on the regional history of Hesse and Thuringia as well as editor .

Life

York-Egbert König studied Medieval and Modern History as well as historical auxiliary sciences and Finno-Ugric Studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

He later took on a position in his hometown in the Eschwege city museum and in the Eschwege city archive , where he is, for example , co-editor of a regional reading book series at Husum Verlag together with the director of the city museum, Karl Kollmann . For example, the two wrote a memorial book under the title Names and Fates of the Jewish Victims of National Socialism from Eschwege , with details on the genealogy and biography of the journalist and newspaper editor Siegfried Bacharach, who was born in Eschwege , for whose father, for example, a stumbling block was laid in front of the former Jewish school in Eschwege.

König is also pursuing other special projects on the city and cultural history of Eschweges and the Kingdom of Westphalia .

Fonts (selection)

  • York-Egbert König, Karl Kollmann (Ed.): Eschwege. A reader. The city of Eschwege then and now in sagas and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems , Husum: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996, ISBN 3-88042-750-X
  • York-Egbert König, Karl Kollmann, Erna Ursel Lange: The Altenstein. 1329 - 2004. 675 years in the Hessian-Eichsfeld border region , 1st edition, publisher: Historical Society of Werraland and the Association for Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde, Eschwege, Heiligenstadt, [Eschwege, Am Fuchsberg 3]: York-Egbert König, 2004, ISBN 3-929413-84-1
  • York-Egbert König, Karl Kollmann (ed.): Bad Sooden-Allendorf. The town of Bad Sooden-Allendorf then and now in sagas and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems , Husum: Husum-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89876-212-0 and ISBN 3-89876-212 -2
  • Sabine Köttelwesch, York-Egbert König: Katharina von Westphalen. Wife of Jérôme Bonaparte and Queen in Kassel , 1st edition, Gudensberg-Gleichen: Wartberg-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8313-1935-0
  • York-Egbert König (ed.), Thomas T. Müller: Heiligenstadt. A reader. Heilbad Heiligenstadt then and now in sagas and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems , Husum: Husum-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89876-246-5 ; contents
  • Karl Kollmann, York-Egbert König (ed.): Eschwege. A city guide on the history of art and culture , 3rd, updated and expanded edition, ed. in collaboration with the Eschwege History Association, Kassel: Jenior, 2009, ISBN 978-3-928172-33-2 ; contents
  • Hermann Simon (eds.), York-Egbert König, Christina Prauss, Renate Tobies : Margarete Kahn and Klara Löbenstein. Mathematicians - Students - Friends (= Jewish miniatures , vol. 108), 1st edition, ed. in cooperation with the Centrum Judaicum , Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-23-3 ; Table of contents and information from the publisher's report
  • Karl Kollmann, York-Egbert König: Names and fates of the Jewish victims of National Socialism from Eschwege. A memorial book sponsored by the Nicolas Gasoline Foundation , 1st Edition, Raleigh, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4709-7182-3
  • York-Egbert König, Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar , Ute Simon: Ludwig Pappenheim. Social Democrat - Redakteur - Menschenfreund (= Jewish miniatures , vol. 140), funded by the Nicolas Petrol Foundation, 1st edition, Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-942271-94-3 , table of contents and information from the publisher's report
  • York-Egbert König, Kristin Schwamm (Ed.): Scherzo in minor. Memoirs of a Rilke correspondent. Lisa Heise , 1st edition, Groß-Gerau: Ancient-Mail-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95652-107-2 ; Table of contents and information from the publisher's report

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information and cross-references under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d Ingwert Paulsen (Responsible): York-Egbert König on the website of the Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft in the version dated February 23, 2016
  3. ^ Karl Kollmann, York-Egbert König: Bacharach , in: Names and Fates of the Jewish Victims (see in the Scriptures section ), passim , especially p. 12; online through google books .
personal data
SURNAME Koenig, York-Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege