Martin Wiehle (23 October 1926 – 10 May 2023) was a German historian.

Life and career

During the Second World War, Wiehle was a German soldier in the

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and the

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from 1943 to 1945. In the post-war period, he worked as a farm labourer in the until 1946, before he was then employed as a miner in Rositz in

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until 1948. This was then followed by specialist training at the librarian school in Jena from 1948 to 1951. He worked from 1951 to 1954 as a

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at the Landesstelle für Bibliothekswesen, first in Jena, later in

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. In 1954, he became director of the

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and "district library

Wilhelm Weitling Wilhelm Christian Weitling (; October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he immigrated to ...

" in

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. He held this position for more than three decades until 1991. From 1957 to 1963, Wiehle completed a

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course in history at Berlin's

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, from which he came out as a graduate historian. From 1955, he published works on historical and biographical topics. His main focus was on regional and library history as well as library-related publications. Among his merits are several works on the history of the Magdeburg region, including the Magdeburger Börde and the

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. He also contributed to the '' Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon'' published in 2002. Wiehle died on 10 May 2023, at the age of 96.

Work

* ''450 Jahre Magdeburger Stadtbibliothek'', 1975, publisher * ''Beiträge zur Weitlingforschung'', vol. 1, 1986 * ''Schätze der Stadtbibliothek Magdeburg'', 1992 * ''Magdeburger Persönlichkeiten'', 1993, * ''Altmark-Persönlichkeiten'', 1999, * ''Bördepersönlichkeiten'', 2001,

References

* Martin Wiehle: ''Bördepersönlichkeiten. Biografisches Lexikon der Magdeburger Börde'' (''Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Magdeburger Börde und ihrer Randgebiete.'' Vol. 6). Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 2001, , .

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiehle, Martin 1926 births 2023 deaths 20th-century German historians Writers from Wrocław People from the Province of Lower Silesia