Agatha Kobuch

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Agatha Kobuch , b. Misch, (born February 5, 1933 in Beuthen ; † January 16, 2018 ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

After completing her archivist training, Agatha Kobuch received a position at the Saxon State Main Archive (from 1968 State Archive) in Dresden. First she worked there in the latest archival material department and then from 1975 in the indexing department. One of her first publications as an archivist appeared in 1965 in the archive reports . It is their work report on the Saxon district school inspections and district school offices and their registries in the Saxon state main archive in Dresden.

On November 3, 1965 Agatha Kobuch at the Faculty of Arts was Humboldt University of Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of her dissertation is The censorship in Electoral Saxony at the time of the personal union with Poland 1697–1763 . This work was published in print by Böhlau in Weimar in 1988 as volume 12 of the series of publications of the Dresden State Archives with the subtitle Ideological currents and political opinions at the time of the Saxon-Polish Union .

For study purposes, in 1984 she wrote the knowledge repository for the history of the political organization of society , which was printed as a manuscript in Potsdam.

At the age of 60, she retired from active archival service in 1993. In the following year, Agatha Kobuch published her second major work in the Akademie-Verlag Berlin with the title The offer of the Polish royal crown to Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony through the constitution of the Rzeczpospolita of May 3, 1791 . It was included as issue 1 of volume 74 in the series of treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class .

She was also involved in several other works, such as the 1995 new edition of the Saxon History by Otto Kaemmel from 1899 or the exhibition catalog The History of the von Schönberg Family of the von Schönberg Foundation in Nossen in 2004. With the sources too She dealt with the Waldheim Trials of 1950 in the Dresden State Archives in her essay On Jurisprudence in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany and the GDR , which appeared in Volume 2 of the Lectures on Justice Research in Frankfurt am Main in 1993.

In 2010 her work was published The Presidium of the State Administration of Saxony. The minutes of the meetings from July 9, 1945 to December 10, 1946 , which she wrote together with Andreas Thüsing, at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen as volume 40 of the series of writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research .

Her husband Manfred Kobuch worked with her as an archivist and historian at the Dresden State Archives (Saxon Main State Archives) until 1993.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , In: Dresdner Latest News from January 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ In: Archivmitteilungen 15, 1965, pp. 100-106.
personal data
SURNAME Kobuch, Agatha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misch, Agatha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2018