Hansmartin Decker-Hauff

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Hansmartin Decker-Hauff

Hansmartin Decker-Hauff , born as Hansmartin Decker (born May 29, 1917 in Oberjettingen , † March 31, 1992 in Stuttgart ) was a German historian and genealogist .

Life

The son of the Oberjettinger pastor Eberhard Decker and great-grandson of Franziska Katharina Decker, b. Hauff (hence the suffix Hauff , from the Löwen-Hauff line ) graduated from Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and studied history, classical philology, art history and German in Tübingen , Munich and Vienna . In 1937 he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . In 1938 he became a member of the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association . In 1939 the state examination for the teaching profession took place in Vienna. A dissertation started by Hans Hirsch on the immunity of English monasteries had to be given up because of the outbreak of war. After military service and prisoner of war, he received his doctorate from Otto Brunner in 1946 with the thesis on the origin and development of old Württemberg honesty .

Decker-Hauff initially worked from 1945 to 1947 as a research assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and from 1948 on at the main state archive in Stuttgart . His denazification process was also carried out in Stuttgart ; the decision to discontinue the job of March 31, 1948 has already been addressed to the State Archives Council . In 1949 he was a member of the Württemberg Commission for State History and, from 1954, the Baden-Württemberg Commission on State History , on whose board he had been active since 1956. In his eight-year archive time, he was particularly concerned with the history of Old Wuerttemberg. In 1956 he then followed Otto Herding as an associate professor to the chair for historical regional studies and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Tübingen. He was appointed full professor in 1962. He belonged to the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . From 1965 he was a member of the Alemannic Institute and later sat on its advisory board. In 1972 he was a member of the Inscription Commission of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Until his retirement on September 30, 1982, he headed the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Tübingen. He supervised over seventy dissertations. His academic students included Wolfram Angerbauer , Günter Cordes , Franz Quarthal , Gerhard Raff and Klaus Schreiner . He was awarded the Schiller Prize of the city of Marbach am Neckar (1967) for his “History of the City of Stuttgart” . He also received the University Medal of the University of Tübingen (1977) and the Medal for Special Services to the State of Baden-Württemberg (1977) as well as the Citizen Medal of the City of Stuttgart (1982) and the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class (1982). Hansmartin Decker-Hauff became an honorary citizen of his home town of Jettingen, where a primary school was named after him. There is also a Decker-Hauff-Straße in Göppingen . His scientific legacy is together with the Decker-Hauff family archive in the Stuttgart State Archive.

criticism

It was only after his death that it became known in historians' circles to what extent the genealogical studies, which had already been controversial during his lifetime, were based on his own forged sources.

In more recent research, the genealogical hypotheses put forward by Decker-Hauff in the catalog for the Stuttgart Staufer exhibition in 1977, which should be backed up with the falsified sources, are rejected. The Bonn historian Tobias Weller comes to the conclusion that the alleged marriage connections never existed.

By evaluating the surviving remains of the Red Book of Lorch Monastery , which was badly damaged in the Second World War in 1944, Klaus Graf and Gerhard Lubich were able to show that the excerpts provided by Decker-Hauff from this source could not have been there. This result, which amounts to an allegation of a source forgery to Decker-Hauffs, was accepted in research.

Hauff's epitaphic book , which Decker-Hauff repeatedly cites, is also apparently an invention of Decker-Hauff. There is no scientific defense that Decker-Hauff defends against these allegations.

In his history of the city of Stuttgart , Decker-Hauff postulated that it was raised to the city by Hermann V von Baden in 1219 - a thesis that was not accepted by experts. Rather, March 8, 1229 is the first documented date (mentioned in a document by Pope Gregory IX for the Bebenhausen monastery ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Women in the Württemberg home. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1997.
  • Gardens and Destinies. Historic sites and characters in Italy. DVA, Stuttgart 1992.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen . 1967, master roll no. 843. See also Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: For the 90th foundation festival of the Derendingia fraternity. In: Tübinger Blätter 54 (1967), pp. 74-80. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Entnazifizierung documents Bü 67711 in inventory EL 902/20 (Spruchkammer 37 - Stuttgart: administrative file) in the state archive Ludwigsburg .
  3. ↑ Q 3/36 b (online finding aid).
  4. ↑ Q 3/36 a (online finding aid).
  5. ↑ See the section on the falsification of sources in the Staufer catalog by Klaus Graf : Der Mythos der Staufer - A Swabian royal dynasty is remembered and instrumentalized. In: Schwäbische Heimat 61 (2010), pp. 296–306. ( Extended online version ).
  6. ↑ Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: The Staufer House. In: The time of the Hohenstaufen, history - art - culture. Catalog of the exhibition, Volume 3: Essays , Stuttgart 1977, pp. 339–374.
  7. ^ Tobias Weller: The marriage policy of the German high nobility in the 12th century. Cologne 2004, pp. 29–34, 211–220; Tobias Weller: On the way to the “Hohenstaufen house”. On the descent, relationship and connubium of the early Hohenstaufen. In: Hubertus Seibert , Jürgen Dendorfer (Ed.): Counts, dukes, kings. The rise of the Hohenstaufen and the empire (1079–1152). Ostfildern 2005, pp. 41–63, here pp. 56–63 ( online ).
  8. ^ Klaus Graf: Staufer traditions from Lorch Abbey. In: Sönke Lorenz , Ulrich Schmidt (Ed.): From Swabia to Jerusalem. Facets of Hohenstaufen history. Sigmaringen 1995, pp. 209-240 ( online ); Gerhard Lubich: On the way to "golden freedom". Dominion and space in the Francia orientalis from the Carolingian to the Staufer times. Husum 1996.
  9. ↑ So already with Stephan Molitor: Zur Südwestdeutschen Nobility Research. In: Sönke Lorenz , Stephan Molitor (Hrsg.): Dominion and Legitimation. High medieval nobility in southwest Germany. First symposium “Nobility, Knights, Knighthood from the High Middle Ages to the Modern Constitutional State” (May 21/22, 1998, Weitenburg Castle). Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002, pp. 1–12, here: p. 9 f. See also RI IV, 1,2 n.4, in: Regesta Imperii Online , (accessed April 8, 2018).
  10. ↑ See Klaus Graf's review of The Inscriptions of the Rems-Murr District. In: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte 105 (2005), pp. 255–257 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Holger Gayer: Stuttgart's wrong anniversary. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , 29./30. December 2018, p. 27; Lord Mayor of the State Capital Stuttgart: Answer to question 194/2018 . July 28, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Decker-Hauff, Hansmartin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decker, Hansmartin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberjettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1992
Place of death Stuttgart