Adolf Diestelkamp

Adolf Diestelkamp (born January 30, 1900 in Hanover , † February 26, 1955 in Koblenz ) was a German archivist and historian .

Professional background

After studying history in Göttingen and Freiburg i. Br. In the years 1918 to 1922, Diestelkamp embarked on the professional career of archivist. In 1924 he passed the archivist examination. From 1924 to 1929 he worked at the Prussian State Archives in Magdeburg . In 1930 Diestelkamp moved to the Prussian State Archives in Stettin . There he took over the management in 1935, which he held theoretically until the spring of 1945. In practice, however, he had been in military service since the outbreak of war.

After the Second World War , he worked at the Münster State Archives from 1945 to 1947 , then moved to the Hanover State Archives and finally to the Federal Archives in Koblenz in 1952 .

Scientific activity

In 1922 Diestelkamp was employed at the University of Freiburg i. Br. With a thesis on the development of the tailoring trade in Germany up to the end of the 16th century. At the Magdeburg State Archives, he was particularly concerned with the history and archival records of the Halberstadt Monastery . After moving to Stettin, he took over the editing of the Baltic Studies , the yearbook of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology , of which he became chairman in 1935. At the same time, as director of the Szczecin State Archives, he became secretary of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

During the time in Szczecin, Diestelkamp u. a. together with Albert Brackmann , Adolf Hofmeister and Otto Kunkel in the organization of Eastern research in Pomerania.

After the war, in addition to current archival issues in Germany, he devoted himself in particular to the problem of expellees and continued his work in Szczecin with the re-establishment of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, which he now became chairman. Since 1949 Diestelkamp was also editor of the papers for German national history .

Personal

Adolf Diestelkamp is the father of the legal historian Bernhard Diestelkamp . He had been a member of the Alemannia Göttingen fraternity since the winter semester of 1918/19 .

Fonts

• The development of the tailoring trade in Germany up to the end of the 16th century , Diss., Freiburg i. Br. 1922.
• History of the Halberstadt Cathedral Library in the Middle Ages , Magdeburg 1927.
• The State Archives of Szczecin since the World War . In: monthly sheets , ed. from the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology, 52nd year (1938), pp. 70–82.
• The archive of the cathedral monastery in Halberstadt . In: Festschrift for Walter Möllenberg , 1939.
• The location of the German east archives . In: Der Archivar , 3rd year (1950), p. 78.
• Documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East-Central Europe , Vol. 1, Bonn 1953, together with Theodor Schieder .
• The Historical Commission for Pomerania . In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 2nd year (1953), p. 282 f.

literature

• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 119.
• Georg Winter : Obituary for Adolf Diestelkamp . In: Der Archivar 8 (1955), Col. 139–142.
• Otto Kunkel : Adolf Diestelkamp . In: Baltic Studies , NF 43 (1955), pp. 7–9.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Alemannia fraternity in Göttingen 1930–1955. Göttingen 1955, p. 136.