DR. HUGO WECZERKA – VERLUST FÜR BUKOWINA-FORSCHUNG
Dr. Hugo Weczerka – a Loss for the Research of Bukovina

Summary/Abstract: This article evokes the personality and work of the renowned German historian and researcher Hugo Weczerka (1930–2021). Born in Bukovina, in Vama (as he claims in his memoirs, as yet unpublished), he spent his childhood and school years in Chernivtsi. In October 1940, the family was displaced to the Reich, eventually arriving in West Germany, Hamburg. Hugo Weczerka continued his studies, between 1959 and 1967, at the History Seminary of the local university. In 1956 he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis on the existence of Germans in the Principality of Moldova between the 13th and 17th centuries. His scientific activity focused on the history of Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe, his research covering, among other things, the history of Romanians, Romania, Transylvania, Germans from medieval Moldova and Galicia, Germans and Jews from Silesia and Hansa, etc. Among the published works, we recall: “Die Deutschen im Buchenlandˮ (Germans in Bukovina, 1955), “Siedlungsgeschichte des Bukowiner Deutschtumsˮ (History of colonization of Bukovinian Germans, 1961), “Das mittelalterliche Deutschtum diesseits und jenseits der Karpatenˮ (Medieval Germans on either side of the Carpathians, 1963). Hugo Weczerka was a corresponding member of the Institute of Comparative History of Urban Planning at the University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität), a member of the Research Council of the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute in Marburg, and of the Raimund Friedrich Kaindl Society in Stuttgart.

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