Fonds StadtarchivHof, N 34 - Prof. Dr. Herbert Weidner (9.5.1911 - 18.5.2009)

• Signature of the inventory: N 34<br /><br />- Designation of the stock: Prof. Dr. Herbert Weidner (9.5.1911 - 18.5.2009)<br /><br />- Scope of the inventory: 4 shelf meters<br /><br />- Find aids: Find book<br /><br />- Description of the inventory (essential contents with indication of the term):<br /> 1. Studied and worked as assistant to Herbert Wediners and Erna Rauhs/Weidners, 1930 - 1952<br /> 2. Scientific activity Herbert and Erna Weidner, 1915 - 2008<br /> 3rd material on the biography and history of the Rauh and Weidner families, around 1880 - 2008<br /> 4th honours Herbert Weidner, 1961 - 2000<br />5th other, 1916 - 1990<br />No. 111 was sent back to Mr. Weidner on 25.6.2008 and later no longer <br />returned to the archive. <br /><br />- Information about the stock history:<br />A part of the stock was handed over to the municipal archive of Prof. Dr. Herbert Weidner in December 2007 and May and June 2008. The records from the study (chapter 1 of the finding aid book) had previously been requested by the estate giver from the Zoological Museum Hamburg. After Herbert Weidner's death, the remaining parts of the holdings were transferred to the City Archives in July 2009.<br /><br />- Legal circumstances (loan agreement, blocking periods): <br />Lautlicher mündlicher Vereinbarung mit Herbert Weidner vom 6.11.2007 und mit der Nachlassverwalterin Frau Militzer vom 6.7.2009 Geschenk an das Stadtarchiv. <br /> Released by the estate provider for immediate use in the premises of the City Archives <br />except for the biographical documents listed under 3. above; these become publicly accessible ten years after the death of the estate provider, i.e. from 1.1.2020. Exceptions: No. 234-240 are blocked until the end of 2092, No. 263-271 until the end of 2063.<br /><br />- Information on the history of the place of provenance (with references):<br />Herbert Weidner was born in Hof on 9.5.1911. After attending school in Hof, he studied geography and zoology in Munich, Halle and Erlangen from 1930 to 1934. From 1934 he was employed at the Zoological Museum in Hamburg, where he habilitated in 1950 and was appointed professor in 1955. He was mainly interested in entomology and pest management. After his retirement, he lived temporarily in Hof or Igensdorf near Forchheim and dealt with the order of his scientific work as well as with autobiographical and family history research. Herbert Weidner died on 18.5.2009 in Hof. A more detailed biography can be found in the book: Eine Kindheit in Hof im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts, Hof 2007.<br />Erna Rauh was born on 17.8.1913 in Hof. After attending school in Hof, she studied chemistry, geography, botany, zoology and geology in Munich and Erlangen from 1933 to 1939 and completed her studies with a dissertation. On 7.7.1938 she married Herbert Weidner and moved to him in Hamburg. During her husband's military service and captivity, Erna Weidner worked from 1942 to 1943 at the Zoological Museum in Hamburg and from 1943 to 1949 at the Botanical Institute of the University of Erlangen. She died on 22.12.1994 in Hamburg. <br /><br />- Reference to further relevant holdings:<br />The scientific publications of Herbert Weidner and other authors, which were also donated to the City Archive, were catalogued with the help of the BVB-OPAC. They bear the signatures 8° A 5999 - 6056, 8° A 6116 - 6120, 8° A 6200 - 6259 and 4° A 1822 - 1831. In addition, some volumes have been assigned to the series of the City Archives: Homecalendar -> 8° F 107, volumes 87-90; Yearbook Mädchenlyzeum -> 8° F 310, volumes 59, 62, 90, 91, 93, 95, 99, 103; Yearbook Oberrealschule -> 8° F 325, volumes 1916, 1922, 1929, 1930-1933, 1936, 1937; Yearbook Gymnasium -> 8° F 323, volumes 1922, 1924, 1928-1930, 1937, 1940, 1943, special edition 1952/53; Franconian monthly issues -> 8° F 28, volume 1927; Ochsenkopf -> 8° F 186, volumes 1951-1955. <br />The drawings donated by Herbert Weidner to the city of Hof were partly assigned to the Museum Bayerisches Vogtland and inventoried there under the numbers KSZ 499 - 536. <br />Some maps and town plans were taken from the stock for reasons of better storage and development (KK 1001 - 1016), also a plan of the Theresiensteinanlagen (KP 1522), a plan of the Hofer Schloss (KP 1523), several files (A 5000-5005), a club publication (O 21/440), two poetry albums (XP 36 and XP 37) as well as numerous photo albums (FA 103 - 150).<br />The following publications by Herbert Weidner have been published by the Nordoberfränkischer Verein für Natur-, Geschichts- und Landeskunde: 14. Report (1952), 22nd and 23rd reports (1969 and 1970), The usable insects (1990) and A childhood in Hof in the first third of the 20th century (2007).<br /><br />- Editors of the holdings (with details of the editing period):<br /> Regina Kilian, January and June 2008, July 2009 (cataloguing of books)<br />Dr. Arnd Kluge, January and June 2008, July - August 2009 (indexing of archives, inventory of works of art)

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