Hon. Prof. Dr. Günter Dippold

born 21.11.1961 in Schney

Studies of History and Folklore

• 1982-1983: University of Bamberg
• 1983-1984: University of Regensburg
• 1984-1985: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 1985-1987: University of Bamberg
• 1987: Diploma in History
• 1993: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg

Profession

• 1992-1994: Director of the German Basketry Museum Michelau
• since 1994: Curator for Cultural Heritage of the District of Upper Franconia

Teaching

• 1995-2001: Lecturer at the University of Bayreuth (Historical Auxiliary Sciences)
• 2000-2004: Lecturer at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg (Folklore/European Ethnology)
• since 2004: Honorary Professor at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
• since 2009: Lectures at the Technical Academy of Constance (Historic Preservation)

• since 1997: 1. Chairman of the Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense e. V. (www.chw-franken.de)
• since 1998: 1. Chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft oberfr?nkischer Museen und Sammlungen e. V.
• since 2004: Member of the Board of the Bayerischen Landesvereins für Heimatpflege e. V., since 2020 2nd chairman (www.heimat-bayern.de)
• 2009–2021: 1. Chairman of the of the Caritas district association Lichtenfels
• since 2012: Member of the Board of Oberfranken Offensiv e. V. (www.oberfranken.de)
• since  2014: Member of the Lichtenfels County Council
• since 2016: Chairman of the board of Kulturerbe Bayern e. V. (www.kulturerbebayern.de)
• since 2017: Member of the Presidium of the Bund Heimat und Umwelt Deutschland e. V. (www.bhu.de)
• since 2017: Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Franconian Regional History of the Universities of Bayreuth and Bamberg in Thurnau (www.iflg-thurnau.de)

• Dippold, Günter: Kleine Geschichte Oberfrankens (= Sonderausgabe für die Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit). Regensburg 2020.
• Christoph, Barbara/Dippold, Günter (Hgg.): Geschichte im Museum. Objekte und Konstrukte. Vortr?ge einer Tagung des Bezirks Oberfranken und der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (= Banzer Museumsgespr?che Bd. 3; zugl. Tagung in Kloster Banz vom 26. bis 28. Juli 2010).

>>> Entire bibliography in chronological order (as of 2023)(257.0 KB, 32 pages) (in german)

• Working Worlds - Form and understanding of work from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
• "Heimat" – On the career of a word and related terms
• Death and Burial - structures and changes between the Middle Ages and the 20th Century
• Mobility – Motives and methods from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
• Museum - historical and contemporary perspectives on a cultural institution
• Handicraft, cottage industry, factory - views on working worlds
• Basic Features of ecclesiastical life from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
• The Enlightened State and the "common" people