Ahasver von Brandt

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Ahasver von Brandt (born September 28, 1909 in Charlottenburg , † March 18, 1977 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Youth and education

Ahasver von Brandt came from a Prussian family of officials and officers. During his school days he spent a long time abroad, including five months in Sweden in 1922 and 1923. There he learned the national language and built up a permanent circle of friends. Finally he passed the Abitur at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Berlin in Charlottenburg at Easter 1929 . From 1929 to 1934 he studied law, then history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1930 he was in the Corps Holsatia recipiert . He finished his studies in 1934 with a doctorate under Fritz Rörig with a thesis on the Lübeck bond market in the 14th century. He was a member of the NSDAP .

Professional career

From 1933 to 1935 he worked as a journalist for the Kieler Neuesten Nachrichten . From 1935 to 1936 he was a research assistant at the Department of History at Kiel University. The placement of Rörig made it easier for the Senate to employ him without the required training as a senior state archive service, where he was then given the position in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1936 . There he was supposed to be able to start his scientific publication activities despite the pressure from the National Socialists, who demanded massive numbers of Aryan proofs . Finally, in 1941, he was appointed City Archives Councilor. At this time, however, Brandt was doing his military service as a reserve officer in the naval artillery. Shortly after he came back from the Second World War in September 1945 , he took over the management of the Lübeck city archive in 1946 as the successor to the dismissed Georg Fink , which administers the rich documents of the Free Hanseatic City and, as the archive of the Hanseatic League, a focus archive for all medieval research in the Middle Ages Northern Europe is. Since 1950 he has been a lecturer in historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Hamburg and in 1955 he was appointed honorary professor. Since 1962 he was a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In the same year he received a call to the chair for historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Heidelberg . During this time, he was also honored with the Golden Medal of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck. In 1963 he was made an honorary member of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology and received the Senate plaque of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. In 1965 he became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In the same year he turned down an offer at the University of Hamburg. In 1974 he retired. In February 1975 he suffered a stroke and died in 1977 after a long illness.

plant

Ahasver von Brandt is particularly important for the historical auxiliary sciences and in Hanseatic research. He has promoted many aspects of Hanseatic research through numerous works. Brandt presented studies on the population structure of Lübeck, the bone-hewn uprisings in the 14th century, the Stralsund Peace or Lübeck's position as a great power. His investigation into the social history of the late medieval bourgeoisie, especially Lübeck, is considered to be important in terms of the social historical analysis of sources. Brandt also committed himself intensely and persistently to the restoration of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as a historical institute. His work Tool of the Historian became one of the best-selling medieval books in Germany. The presentation is still an important academic tool in the history seminar today. His indexing of several thousand Lübeck citizen wills remained unfinished.

Fonts

  • The Lübeck bond market from 1320–1350. Kiel 1935 (Kiel, Diss., 1934).
  • Lübeck and the German survey 1847–1848. Commemorative publication for the centenary of the revolution. Antäus-Verlag, Lübeck 1948.
  • as editor: Urbanism and the bourgeoisie as historical forces. Commemorative writing for Fritz Rörig . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1953.
  • Spirit and Politics in Lübeck History. Eight chapters on the fundamentals of historic greatness. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1954.
  • Tool of the historian. An introduction to the historical auxiliary sciences (= Urban-Bücher 33, ZDB -ID 995319-x ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958 (numerous editions).
  • The Hanseatic League and the Nordic powers in the Middle Ages (= publications of the Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Humanities. Issue 102, ISSN  0570-5649 ). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne et al. 1962.
  • The German Hanseatic League as a mediator between East and West (= Scientific Treatises of the Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 27, ISSN  0570-5665 ). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne et al. 1963.
  • Regest of the Lübeck citizen wills of the Middle Ages. Based on the preliminary work by Eduard Hach , Fritz Rörig and others edited and published. 2 volumes. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck;
    • Volume 1: 1278-1350 (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 18, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). 1964;
    • Volume 2: 1351-1363 (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 24). 1973, ISBN 3-7950-0424-1 .
  • The social structure of the late medieval Lübeck. In: Studies on the social structure of medieval cities in Europe. Reichenau lectures 1963–1964 (= Constance working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Vol. 11, ISSN  0452-490X ). Thorbecke, Konstanz et al. 1966, pp. 215–240 (also special reprint. Ibid 1966).
  • Lübeck. Image and essence of an old city. Weiland, Lübeck 1965 (2nd, modified edition there 1972).
  • Percy Ernst Schramm (1894–1970). In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 89, 1971, ISSN  0073-0327 , pp. 1-4 (also special print. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1971).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75 , 489
  2. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Ahasver of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1977
Place of death Heidelberg