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DR. PHIL. HERIBERT STURM
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Dr. Phil. Heribert Sturm
Birthdate: July 22, 1904
Date of death: October 28, 1981
The last town archivist of the town of Cheb before expulsion. Sturm attended the grammar school in Kadaň and he passed the leaving examinations with Honours in 1923. At the German university in Prague, he studied history, German studies and the history of art at Theodor Mayer, Erich Gierach, Wilhelm Wostrý, August Sauer, Erich Gierach, Adolf Hauffen and Alois Grünwald. In 1927, he acquires doctorate degree and he works as town archivist in Jáchymov in 1928 – 1934. As a successor of Karl Siegl, he is the director of the town archive in Cheb, the most important archive in the Sudetenland in 1934 – 1946. Since 1938, he is the member of the German Academy of Sciences in Prague. After the expulsion he becomes the state archive councillor in Neuburg a.d. Donau in 1947-1953 and the director of the State Archive in Amberg in 1953 – 1973.
Sturm was the founder and a member of the Board of Collegia Carolina and a member of the Historical Commission for the Sudetenland. He was awarded by the silver Bene Merente medal and obtained honourable tributes of the Sudeten-German Countryman´s Association and of the Cheb Municipalities Association. He was the holder of the Georg Dehoie´s price and the cultural prize of Ostbayern AG.
Selection from the works:
Die Bücherei der Lateinschule zu St. Joachimsthal (1929)
Das Werden von Stadt und Bezirk St. Joachimsthal (1932)
Das Archiv der Stadt Eger (1936)
Eger, Geschichte einer Reichsstadt (1961)
Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Teil Altbayern, Bd. 21 (1970)
Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Teil Altbayern, Bd. 40 (1975)
Nordgau, Egerland, Oberpfalz (1984)
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