Eugen Fischer (historian)

Eugen Fischer ( also known by his pseudonym A. Helm ), ( born March 3 1899 in Berchtesgaden, † March 19, 1973 ) was a German geologist and historian.

Life

Fischer saw themselves as the successors of Joseph Ernst von Koch- Sternfeld (1778-1866) and has worked intensively with the source collection of all possible fields of knowledge about the Berchtesgaden area. All his publications to he submitted self-published because he distrusted each publisher principle. He also rejected the fundamental principle of each encyclopedia publishing Financing categorically to bear the cost of a new member by the respective preceding. Because of the fact and organizational difficulties resulting, he could no longer see printed during his lifetime, many results of his decades of work.

The three-part Reprintausgabe his The Berchtesgaden through the ages in 1974 honored by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as " encyclopedia of Berchtesgaden ." As a research base for the entire 1522-1930 Berchtesgaden about acquiring literature found his 1930 bibliography published in the literature on the Berchtesgaden Alps and its far beyond the region much attention. The published together with Magdalene Ziemke life image Moritz Mayer should counteract the legend education about life after Judith Platters Richard Voss adaptation. His monograph Hallthurm dealt with the history of the former Berchtesgaden border fortifications from the first beginnings to the present.

His collected in decades Examples Berchtesgaden dialect, however, never came into print and only a few times was mimeographed. Unpublished are also still his manuscripts on the history of the Berchtesgaden Salt Works and the Steinmarterln in the Berchtesgaden area.

The pseudonym A. helmet, which he used his work for all, was derived from the first name of his wife Helma.

Publications

• The Berchtesgaden through the ages. 1929
• The literature on the Berchtesgaden country and its Alps. 1930
• James Anderson - a living image of the heroine of the novel Judith Platter, Two People ' by Richard Voss. 1930 ( in collaboration with Magdalene Ziemke, 2nd edition 1959)
• Hallthurm. 1959