Waldemar R. Röhrbein

Waldemar R. Röhrbein (9 September 19355 October 2014) was a German historian. He worked as a museum director in Lower Saxony, his last post being from 1976 to 1997 at the Historisches Museum Hannover, and was president of the . He contributed to encyclopedias about Hanover's history and culture.

Life Born in Hanover, Röhrbein grew up in rural . From 1986 to 2001 and again since April 2010, he was Deputy Chairman of the . From 1999 to 2004 he was president of Niedersächsischer Heimatbund.

Röhrbein was on the advisory board of the . He was awarded the , first class, in 2004.

After he retired, Röhrbein lived in Emden until his death in 2014 at the age of 79. ed. by Röhrbein, with contributions by , Röhrbein, Mlynek, Dieter Tasch, Kaspar Klaffke, Ernst August von der Haar and Peter K.-W. Meyer, Hanover: , 1986, and ; Table of contents

Other works: Ausverkauf. the Marienburg Castle im Brennpunkt der Interessen. In Niedersachsen (Magazine for culture, history, home and nature since 1859), 2/2006. The same text can be found with minor changes under the title Im Brennpunkt: Die Marienburg, in Förderverein für die Stadtgeschichte von Springe e. V.: Springer Jahrbuch 2006. Kleine Stadtgeschichte Hannovers. (chronological narrative, 192 pages), Regensburg: Pustet, 2012, with Hugo Thielen: Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte. Completely revised, extended and updated new edition, Hannover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 2013,

First in 1998 and revised in 2013, Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover, Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte. It is organised as a history of the city, beginning in 1303,