Gerhard Baaken

Gerhard Baaken (born July 29, 1927 in Straelen , † June 6, 2010 in Tübingen ) was a German historian and diplomat .

Gerhard Baaken came from the Lower Rhine and was drafted as a soldier during the last months of the war and transferred to the Eastern Front . After the end of the war he studied philology and history at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and, after an interruption due to a war-related lung disease, finally in Tübingen . There he received his doctorate under Heinrich Dannenbauer in 1958 with a thesis on the royal free in East Saxony . In the same year he took on a scientific assistant position at the history seminar for eight years. In 1966 he completed his habilitation with the work History of Emperor Heinrich VI. with the regesta of his documents I. 1973 he became Scientific Council at the University of Tübingen. The position was later converted into a professorship for Medieval and Modern History. Baaken was twice dean of the history department and the history faculty. In 1980/82 he was chairman of the Grand Senate and in 1984 spokesman for the professorships.

Baaken was a founding member of the German Regestenkommission and editor of Regesten Henry VI. For many years he was the project manager of the “Papstregesten 1181–1198”. Baaken published on the history of the empire in the Hohenstaufen era and the history of Italy . Eleven essays by Baaken on the Staufer period and above all on Heinrich VI. from 1968 to 1995 were published in 1997 in a commemorative publication. Baaken published fundamental essays on "The succession of ages of the sons of Friedrich Barbarossa and the ascension of Henry VI.", On "The negotiations between Emperor Heinrich VI. and Pope Celestine III. in the years 1195–1197 ”or via the“ Unio regni ad imperium. The negotiations of Verona in 1184 and the marriage agreement between King Henry VI. and Constance of Sicily ”. Baaken advocated the thesis of Henry VI's strict refusal to take the Sicilian kingdom from the Pope as a fief . In 1993 he presented a monograph on the history of the imperial claims on southern Italy and Sicily up to the declaration of renunciation by Rudolf I of Habsburg .

Fonts (selection)

Royalty, castles and royalty free (= lectures and research. Vol. 6). 2nd unchanged edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-6606-6 . ( Digitized version )
Ius imperii ad regnum. Kingdom of Sicily, Imperium Romanum and Roman papacy from the death of Emperor Henry VI. up to Rudolf von Habsburg's declarations of renunciation (= research on the history of the emperors and popes in the Middle Ages. Vol. 11). Böhlau, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-412-03693-5 .

literature

Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): From Swabia to Jerusalem. Facets of Hohenstaufen history. [Gerhard Baaken on his 65th birthday] (= publication by the Alemannic Institute. Vol. 61). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-4247-7 .
Karl-Augustin Frech, Ulrich Schmidt (Ed.): Imperium and Papacy. On the history of the 12th and 13th centuries. Festschrift for the 70th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-01997-6 .

Web links

Peter Hilsch : Pedagogical straightforwardness and sophisticated didactics. On the death of Professor Dr. Gerhard Baaken in: Newsletter Uni Tübingen currently no. 2/2010.
Publications by and about Gerhard Baaken in the Opac der Regesta Imperii

Remarks

↑ Gerhard Baaken: The age sequence of the sons of Friedrich Barbarossa and the ascension of Henry VI. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 24, 1968, pp. 46-78 ( digitized version )
^ Gerhard Baaken: The negotiations between Emperor Heinrich VI. and Pope Celestine III. in the years 1195–1197. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 27, 1971, pp. 457-513 ( digitized version )
^ Gerhard Baaken: Unio regni ad imperium. The negotiations of Verona in 1184 and the marriage agreement between King Henry VI. and Constance of Sicily. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. 52, 1972, pp. 219-297.
^ Gerhard Baaken: Unio regni ad imperium. The negotiations of verona in 1184 and the marriage agreement between King Henry VI. and Constance of Sicily. In: Karl-Augustin Frech, Ulrich Schmidt (Ed.): Imperium and Papacy. On the history of the 12th and 13th centuries. Festschrift for the 70th birthday. Cologne et al. 1997, pp. 81–142, here: pp. 138 ff.
↑ See the reviews by Ulrich Andermann in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 149 (2001), pp. 577-578; Theo Kölzer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 51, 1995, pp. 640-641 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Baaken, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Straelen
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 2010
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Gerhard Baaken: The age sequence of the sons of Friedrich Barbarossa and the ascension of Henry VI. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 24, 1968, pp. 46-78 ( digitized version )

[2] Gerhard Baaken: The negotiations between Emperor Heinrich VI. and Pope Celestine III. in the years 1195–1197. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 27, 1971, pp. 457-513 ( digitized version )

[3] Gerhard Baaken: Unio regni ad imperium. The negotiations of Verona in 1184 and the marriage agreement between King Henry VI. and Constance of Sicily. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. 52, 1972, pp. 219-297.

[4] Gerhard Baaken: Unio regni ad imperium. The negotiations of verona in 1184 and the marriage agreement between King Henry VI. and Constance of Sicily. In: Karl-Augustin Frech, Ulrich Schmidt (Ed.): Imperium and Papacy. On the history of the 12th and 13th centuries. Festschrift for the 70th birthday. Cologne et al. 1997, pp. 81–142, here: pp. 138 ff.

[5] See the reviews by Ulrich Andermann in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 149 (2001), pp. 577-578; Theo Kölzer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 51, 1995, pp. 640-641 ( digitized version ).