Hans-Thorald Michaelis

Hans- Thorald Michaelis ( born April 23, 1925 in Hannover, † December 18, 2004 in Aachen ) was a German historian, specialist in German and genealogist.

Life

The son of an engineer Reinhold Michaelis (1896-1974) and Gerda von Boehmer (1899-1925), daughter of the engineer Hugo Erich von Boehmer, went through after the study of history, German literature, philosophy and Protestant theology in Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Göttingen and Marburg career as a high school teacher. In 1963 he received his doctorate with the theme: " The county Büdingen in the field of the arguments about the religious and political unity of the Empire from 1517 to 1555 ."

In the period from 1966 to 1971, he was instrumental in charge of the development and management of the West High School in Wiesbaden. In these politically turbulent times he sat down very early for this new second-chance education, for the " democratization of the school" and, consequently, for a modern student council.

Since 1965 to 1973 he dedicated himself to be an active member in the Wiesbaden SPD and published historical work-ups in the Festschrift for their 100th anniversary in 1967. Moreover, Michaelis was after his SPD - time in 1977, co-founder of the Free Voters Association ( FWG ) Wiesbaden, and from 1965 to 1981 a member of the Frankfurt round Table, a politically and economically initially - liberal discussion. Here he tried until he left with socially - critical inputs and essays of the threat of legal tendency to counteract this organization, but he could see the trend as an outsider from a different political camps and with his attitude to the "Political Center" does not prevent.

As part of its long-standing involvement in the evangelical church, he also sat down very early for ecumenism in the Church, and in 1968 he was a delegate part in the 4th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala. He also appeared in 1976 in the Fraternal Circle, a similar community orden Protestant coinage, which has its origin in the Baltic Brotherhood was founded in 1926.

After his retirement in 1982 he was entrusted with the development and management of the archive of the German Shooting Federation in Wiesbaden. In this time he wrote more than ten historical publications about the German shooting clubs and organized several exhibitions.

Ever since early youth there was interest by Hans- Thorald Michaelis genealogy. On the basis of already existing in the various branches of the family genealogy documents he traveled at home and abroad in order to complete the records. This created for the concerned families Michaelis, Bohemian / von Boehmer, of Görschen and Weitbrecht a database of more than 10,000 people. To this end, he also published this more than 50 publications supplemented with relevant historical events and contexts. Thanks to this research, he was able to prove, for example, that all direct descendants of his great-grandmother Mary Barbara Rennie (1836-1920) from Kilsyth / North Lanarkshire thus are also direct descendants of the Pilgrim father William Bradford ( 1590-1657 ). In order for these persons concerned are entitled members of the prestigious Mayflower Society, based in Plymouth ( Massachusetts) to be. In 1963, he joined the Association of East German genealogists and shortly before the society for middle German genealogy in their magazines in East German family customer or agent German family customer, published by Verlag Degener, he published extensive work.

Hans- Thorald Michaelis was married to the music educator Roselinde Marie of Görschen (1923-1995), daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Horst Friedrich von Görschen and granddaughter of Otto Friedrich Ferdinand of Görschen.

Writings (selection )

  • The county Büdingen in the field of the arguments about the religious and political unity of the Empire ( 1517-1555 ). Hessian Church Historical Association (Darmstadt); Binder nail, Friedberg (Hessen) 1965.
  • The child in the perspective of recent Protestant and Catholic theology. Journal of ecumenical encounter, Una Sancta, Kyrie -Verlag GmbH, Meitingen 1966.
  • History of the family von Boehmer in continuation of, written by Hugo Erich von Boehmer in 1982 genealogy of the Justus Henning Boehmer -descended families and some of them intermarried with families. Rheinische Publishing Company, Bad Godesberg in 1978. (Titles in the Library of Congress :)
  • Marksmen. Origin - Tradition - Development. Keyser's brief cultural history, 1985 ( Reprint )
  • Under black - red-gold banners and the signature of the double eagle. Failed People's Armament and union efforts in the German national movement and the German Shooting Federation from 1859 to 1869. Elements of a German tragedy. Peter Lang Publishing for European University Studies, 3/ 549, Frankfurt am Main and Bern in 1993. (Titles in the Library of Congress :)
  • Carinthian exile fate in the Counter- Reformation. A contribution to the history of religiously motivated expulsion policy Archduke Ferdinand II in Carinthia in the years 1596-1637. in: Yearbook of the history of Protestantism in Austria 112 Jg, Vienna 1996.
  • How Wiesbaden 50 years from total destruction just escaped: a courageous decision of [ Volkssturm leader ] Heinrich Michaelis on the night of 28 March 1945 and its beneficial consequences in: Wiesbaden life, Vol 44, No. 5, pp. 4-7, Wiesbaden, 1995

And various genealogical publications for magazines Genealogy and East German, North German and Middle German family of customer -Verlag Degener ( Insingen )

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