Adolf Brenneke

Adolf Brenneke (born August 23, 1875 in Gandersheim as Johann Friedrich Robert Brennecke; † January 20, 1946 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German historian and Prussian state archivist .

Live and act

Johann Friedrich Robert Adolf Brennecke grew up as the son of the music conductor Heinrich Brennecke in Gandersheim. After attending the Progymnasium in Gandersheim and graduating from the Gymnasium in Goslar , he studied German literature and history in Jena , Göttingen , Munich and Marburg from 1895 to 1898 . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1895 . After completing his doctorate at the University of Marburg (1898), he began his archival career in 1899 by attending the archive school and as a volunteer at the Marburg State Archives . In 1900 he moved to theState Archives Münster . Further stations in his professional career were the Prussian State Archives in Gdansk in 1905 and the Hanover State Archives from 1908 to 1930 (archive management since 1923) and then the Secret State Archives in Berlin (Deputy Director in 1930, Director in 1936). He had last served as a captain in the First World War .

His main focus was the history of the pre- and post-Reformation monastic communities and the course of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen . As early as 1910 he was appointed a member of the Historical Commission and from 1927 a member of the committee. He was entrusted with the editing of the Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History , which he put down when he moved to the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1929 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He retired in September 1943.

With his archival lectures at the Prussian Institute for Archival Studies - published after his death under the title Archivkunde - he became the founder of an independent archival methodology and archival history typology.

family

Adolf Brenneke married Elly Schürholz in Gandersheim in 1909, the daughter of a school board member. The marriage resulted in the son Heinz (* 1911) and the daughter Ursula (* 1913).

Fonts (selection)

• The ordinary direct state taxes of Meklenburg in the Middle Ages ... Marburg 1900, OCLC 28859175 (Dissertation University of Marburg).
• Before and after Reformation monastery rule and the history of the Church Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen . Ed .: Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Helwing, Hannover 1929, OCLC 238862827 .
• with Albert Brauch: The Calenberg monasteries under Wolfenbüttel rule, 1584–1634 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1956, OCLC 4850534 .
• Archival customer. A contribution to the theory and history of European archiving . Ed .: Wolfgang Leesch . Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1988, ISBN 3-598-10785-4 (reprint of the original edition Leipzig, Koehler and Amelang, 1953).
• Archival customer. Vol. 2. International Archive Bibliography. With special consideration of the German and Austrian archives. Edited by Wolfgang Leesch . 2., completely reworked. and exp. Edition edition. Saur, Munich / New Providence / London / Paris 1993, ISBN 3-598-11074-X .
• Design the archive. Postponed writings on archival science . Edited by Dietmar Schenk. Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2018 (= publications of the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives , 113), ISBN 978-3-943423-50-1 .

literature

• Obituary for Adolf Brenneke. In: Der Archivar 6 (1953), col. 97 ff.
• Wolfgang Leesch:  Brenneke, Johann Friedrich Robert Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 586 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , pp. 80 f.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Brennecke, Johann Friedrich Adolf, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 97-98 .
• Philip Haas: Unknown photos - unknown statements. Adolf Brenneke at the meeting of the heads of the Prussian State Archives on October 3rd and 4th, 1941 in Marburg . In: Der Archivar 72 (2019), Heft 2, pp. 131-137.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Brenneke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Adolf Brennecke in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Digital version of the Italian edition of “Archivkunde” (Milan 1968) on the website of the Italian archive administration.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The letter c in the name, which Adolf Brennecke initially carried, later had to be deleted due to an error by a registrar, cf. Brenneke / Lesch: Archivkunde , Leipzig 1953, p. IX.
2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 24.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Brennecke, Johann Friedrich Adolf, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 97-98 .
4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 49.