Heribert Reiners

Heribert Reiners (23 August 1884 – 4 June 1960) was a German art historian and academic teacher at the Universities in Bonn and Fribourg.

[2] During the First World War he was, together with Dr Wilhelm Ewald, art protection officer at the Army High Command 5 and documented Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance churches and castles in northern Lorraine.

From Bonn he moved to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1925, after receiving an appointment there as full professor to the chair of art history, which he held until 1945, from 1940 also for the subject of archaeology.

[4] In 1931, he finally also took over from Karl Faymonville, who died in 1930, his as yet unpublished editing of the partial volume on the district of Malmedy.

For example, in the first edition[6] of the guidebook Schloß Burg an der Wupper published by Schwann in Düsseldorf in 1910, for which he wrote the description of the picturesque decoration.