Hans-Martin Maurer

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Hans-Martin Maurer (born June 22, 1929 in Hattenhofen ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Born and raised as a pastor's son in Hattenhofen near Göppingen , he studied history, Latin and geography in Tübingen and Göttingen . In 1956 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the sovereign castle in Wirtemberg in the 15th and 16th centuries . From 1957 he worked as an archivist in changing institutions, from 1961 to 1994 in the main state archive in Stuttgart , which he headed from 1974 until his retirement in 1994. From 1969 to 1982 he worked on a voluntary basis in the working group for regional and local history in the Association of Württemberg Historical and Antiquity Associations. From 1981 to 2001 he was chairman of the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association . Maurer worked for a long time in the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg , on whose board he was from 1980 to 2014.

Create

Hans-Martin Maurer embodies the image of the “historian-archivist”, which is based on a close connection between archival work and historical research. More than 200 publications with research results mainly in the areas of castle building in the Middle Ages, Reformation, Peasants' War, the constitutional history of Old Württemberg, the history of the counts, dukes and kings of Württemberg as well as the beginnings of the history associations in southwest Germany go back to him. Historians consider Maurer to be the one who shaped the category of the noble castle . Geographically, most of Maurer's works dealt primarily with the area of ​​today's south and south-west Germany. He also worked as an editor in a variety of ways: Among other things, he was responsible for the magazine for Württembergische Landesgeschichte for several years and edited the series Lebendige Geschichte .

Fonts (selection)

  • The lordly castle in Wirtemberg in the 15th and 16th centuries. Studies on the sovereign's own castles, palaces and fortresses (publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B - Research - Vol. 1), W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958.
  • Structural forms of the high medieval aristocratic castle in southwest Germany . In: ZfGO 115 (NF 76) / 1967, pp. 61-116.
  • The emergence of the high medieval aristocratic castle in southwest Germany . In: ZfGO 117 (NF 78) / 1969, pp. 297-332.
  • Castles . In: Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart (ed.): The time of the Staufer. History - Art - Culture , catalog of the exhibition, vol. 3 - essays , Stuttgart 1977, pp. 119–128.
  • The Hohenstaufen. History of the family seat of an imperial family , Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart and Aalen 1977, ISBN 3-8062-0163-3 .
  • What did the family castle of the Hohenstaufen look like? . In: Society for Staufer History (ed.): Die Staufer (Writings on Staufer History and Art 9), Göppingen 2000, ISBN 3-929776-11-1 , pp. 13-15.
  • Duke Frederick I founds a monastery in Lorch . In: Society for Staufer History (ed.): Friedrich I. (1079-1105). The first Staufer Duke (Writings on Staufer History and Art, Vol. 26), Göppingen 2007, pp. 112-133.

literature

  • Nicole Bickhoff: On the 90th birthday of Professor Dr. Hans-Martin Maurer . In: Württembergischer Geschichts- und Altertumsverein (Ed.): Circular No. 28, October 2019, p. 7.
  • Robert Kretzschmar (arrangement): Publications by Hans-Martin Maurer. In: Journal for Württemberg State History , Vol. 79 (2020), pp. 447–458.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furrier Scholars .
  2. ^ Nicole Bickhoff: For the 90th birthday of Professor Dr. Hans-Martin Maurer . In: Württembergischer Geschichts- und Altertumsverein (Ed.): Circular No. 28, October 2019, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Thomas Zotz : Burg und Amt - to legitimize the building of castles in the early and high Middle Ages . In: Erik Beck, Eva-Maria Butz, Martin Strotz, Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz ( arr .): Burgen im Breisgau: Aspects of castle and rulership in a supra-regional comparison. (Archeology and History, Vol. 18 = publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br. No. 79), Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-7368-9 , pp. 141–151, 141.
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Hans-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattenhofen