Wolfgang Uhlmann signs the city's Golden Book
Press invitation: Thursday, 18 April, 6 p.m., City Hall, City Council Chamber
On Thursday, 18 April at 6 pm, the chairman of the Chemnitz History Society, Dr phil. Wolfgang Uhlmann, will be honoured with an entry in the city's Golden Book. The entry will take place in the City Council Chamber of Chemnitz Town Hall. Dr Uhlmann will be honoured for his voluntary work and services in the research and preparation of Chemnitz's industrial and economic history.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to this event.
As chairman and secretary of the history commission, the Dresden-born graduate teacher soon became one of the teachers who taught their pupils about local history. From 1983 to 1991, he worked at the TH and TU Karl-Marx-Stadt in the regional history working group based in the city archives and helped to bundle the city's research capacities in the development of the overall presentation "Geschichte der Stadt in Wort und Bild" (1988). Uhlmann completed his doctorate in 1988 on the subject of "The constitution of the Chemnitz bourgeoisie during the period of bourgeois upheaval from 1800 to 1871". His main areas of research are the industrial and economic history of the city of Chemnitz, and he has published several books and several hundred essays in specialist journals, periodicals, conference proceedings and in the Sächsische Biographie.
Last year saw the publication of the second volume on the city's industrial history, which covers the period from 1871 to 1914 and was preceded by years of studying sources. Dr Uhlmann also became known for his key role in setting up the Saxon Industrial Museum in Chemnitz from 1991 to 2003. At the interim location, Annaberger Straße 114, he took over the provisional management of the museum's development team and the management of the regional and company history working group from 1993 to 1995. Uhlmann is currently working on the third volume of the city's industrial history.