Walter Stark

Walter Stark (born July 24, 1924 in Danzig-Langfuhr ; † February 20, 2009 in Greifswald ) was a German historian who mainly dealt with the history of the Hanseatic League .

Walter Stark passed his Abitur in 1942 and then had to do labor service and the Wehrmacht . He was a prisoner of war until 1946. After his release, he joined the SED and began studying history , Latin and education at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (EMAU). His studies, which lasted until July 1951, were interrupted from July 1949 to March 1951 by a delegation. At that time, Stark was head of the HR and training department in the Rostock University Administration . From 1947 to 1949 he also worked in the student council and the SED party organization for students. He finished his studies with the state examination . Stark had been a lecturer in history at the workers and farmers faculty of EMAU since 1951 and became director of studies there in 1960. He had passed the state examination for the upper school in 1957. From 1962 Stark was a research associate at the Historical Institute of EMAU. In 1969 he did his doctorate on Lübeck and Danzig in the second half of the 15th century. Studies on the relationship between the Wendish and Prussian Hanseatic cities in the time of the decline of the Hanseatic League , experts were Johannes Schildhauer , Konrad Fritze and Herbert Ewe . Stark then became a senior scientific assistant at the History Science Section in Greifswald. The PhD B took place in 1980 with the work Investigations on the profit of Hanseatic trading capital in the first half of the 15th century , experts were again Fritze and Schildhauer and Werner Mägdefrau . In 1982 he became a university lecturer and deputy section director for research. In September 1986 Stark was appointed associate professor in Greifswald. In 1989 he retired.

He was particularly concerned with the history of the Hanseatic League, especially with the late phase of its organization and with its financial and economic history.

Fonts

• Lübeck and Danzig in the second half of the 15th century. Studies on the relationship between the Wendish and Prussian Hanseatic cities in the period of the decline of the Hanseatic League , Böhlau, Weimar 1973 (Treatises on trade and social history,; Vol. 11)
• The Hanseatic League (with Johannes Schildhauer and Konrad Fritze ), DVW, 4th edition, Berlin 1981 (also: Die Geschichte der Hanse , Verlag Das Europäische Buch, Westberlin 1985 ISBN 3-88436-142-2 )
• Investigations on the profit of Hanseatic commercial capital in the first half of the 15th century , Böhlau, Weimar 1985 (Treatises on commercial and social history, vol. 24)

literature

• "Copy us work by tyden". Contributions to Hanseatic and Prussian history. Festschrift for Walter Stark on his 75th birthday . Helm, Schwerin 1999, ISBN 3-931185-58-3 .
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 577.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Stark in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Walter Stark in the state bibliography MV