Albert Guthke

Albert Guthke (born January 1, 1900 in Bergen (district of Celle) , † July 12, 1981 in Pritzwalk ) was a German museologist and Prignitz researcher.

Life

The father, Richard Guthke, came from a long-established farming family from Dahlhausen, a district of Heiligengrabe in Prignitz. This origin was formative for Albert Guthke. After attending elementary school in Bergen (Celle district) and the Johanneum Lüneburg high school with a secondary school diploma due to the war in 1918, he studied German, history and philosophy in Göttingen , Leipzig and Greifswald from 1919 to 1926 . He then headed the "International Bibliography of History" department in the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, worked 1932/33 as a publishing editor at the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg, from 1936 to 1941 as an assistant in the "Heimatmuseum für die Prignitz" in the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe under the direction of Annemarie von Auerswald , 1945 to 1946 as a museum manager at the Museum Lüneburg, then as a museum director in Kyritz and finally in Pritzwalk . 1954 to 1958 he studied at the college for local museums in Köthen and Weißenfels . From 1946 to 1960 he and his family lived in Dahlhausen and from 1960 in Pritzwalk.

Services

After the "Heimatmuseum für die Prignitz" in the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery was closed at the end of the Second World War and the formerly rich prehistoric and early historical collection had been almost completely destroyed, Albert Guthke worked on the remains of the museum holdings in 1946/47 and transferred them to the holdings of the Pritzwalk local history museum , which he founded in 1954 , because a re-establishment of an Ostprignitz museum in the church of Heiligengrabe was not politically desirable. He worked as director of the local history museum until his retirement in 1972. He made a contribution to the research of the Prignitz with the publication of scientific publications, in particular the two-volume series "Prignitz research" (Pritzwalk, 1966 and 1971). With his own articles, for example, he has contributed to the history of the city of Pritzwalk, the history of the xenusion discovery (the most important paleontological find in Prignitz) and the life story of the poet Theodor Fontane .

Fonts

• A. Guthke: Blumenthal potters . In: Communications from the Heimat- und Museumsverein in Heiligengrabe, pp. 26–35, Heiligengrabe, 1937.
• A. Guthke: Pritzwalk - prehistory and German early days . In: Festschrift "700 Years of the City of Pritzwalk" , pp. 5–9, Pritzwalk, 1956.
• A. Guthke: Seven years at the Pritzwalk District Home Museum . In: Contributions to local history "Pritzwalk and Prignitz" , pp. 140–156, Pritzwalk, 1961.
• W. Fischer: Flora der Prignitz , with a foreword by the editor A. Guthke, pp. 7–8, Pritzwalk, 1963.
• B. Kernchen and A. Guthke: Finder and location of Xenusion auerswaldae . In: Prignitz-Forschungen , Vol. 1, pp. 13-17, Pritzwalk, 1966.
• A. Guthke: Fontanes and Fontane relatives in the Prignitz '- 1804 to 1871 . In: Prignitz-Forschungen , Vol. 1, pp. 95-106, Pritzwalk, 1966.
• A. Guthke (Ed.): Prignitz-Forschungen , Vol. 2, with foreword by the editor A. Guthke, S. 2, Pritzwalk, 1971.
• A. Guthke: "I loved Dr. Lau." - About Theodor Fontanes praeceptor domesticus, born in Brandenburg (Havel) 1806, died in Wittstock (Dosse) 1887 , Fontane-Blätter 3 (3), pp. 165-189, Potsdam, 1974.

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• R. Rehberg: Albert Guthke - In memory of the founder of the Pritzwalk local history museum . Pritzwalker Heimatblätter, No. 9, pp. 31-37, Pritzwalk, 2000.
• R. Rehberg: Dedicated to history. Albert Guthke founded a local museum. 100th birthday on January 1st . Märkische Allgemeine, Prignitz-Kurier, January 4, 2000, p. 15.