Bernhard Parisius

Bernhard Parisius, Head of the Lower Saxony State Archives at the Aurich site (2015)

Bernhard Parisius (born June 7, 1950 in Oldenburg ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Bernhard Parisius studied history , German literature and social sciences at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1982 with a study on the labor movement in the Duchy of Oldenburg supervised by Helga Grebing . During his doctoral thesis, he worked at the Göttingen office to research the history of the labor movement in Lower Saxony after 1945, was a scholarship holder at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz and, from 1980 to 1982, was a research assistant at the University of Essen in the research project “History of Life” led by Lutz Niethammer and social culture in the Ruhr area 1930–1960 ”. In 1982 he switched to the modern history department at the Fernuniversität in Hagen (Niethammer chair) as a research assistant .

The Aurich location of the Lower Saxony State Archives

In 1984 Parisius became an archive trainee at the State Archive of Münster (today: State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia, Westphalia Department ), then advisor at the Hessian Main State Archive in Wiesbaden , in 1993 deputy head of the State Archive Osnabrück and in 1995 head of the State Archive Aurich (today: Lower Saxony State Archive, Aurich site ). He has been teaching at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 1996 , where he completed his habilitation in the field of modern history in 2002 and was appointed as a private lecturer . In 2007 he was appointed honorary professor .

Parisius is the scientific director of the " Gnadenkirche Tidofeld - Documentation Center for the Admission of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Lower Saxony and Northwest Germany" and scientific advisor to the "Foundation Economic Archives North-West Lower Saxony " in Emden .

His research focuses on the history of East Frisia and the social and migration history , especially Lower Saxony , Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia .

Bernhard Parisius is the editor of the Emden yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia and is co-editor of the two series "Treatises and researches on East Frisian history" and "Sources on the history of East Frisia" published together with the East Frisian Landscape . As archive manager - often in close cooperation with the East Frisian landscape - he has established a regional network that includes cultural institutions, municipal and economic facilities. Together with the East Frisian Landscape, he has launched annual events on East Frisian history , including a series of lectures, the Day of East Frisian History and the School Prize for East Frisian History and Culture. Important research and development projects he (co) initiated and supervised are the databases "Resistance and persecution in East Frisia during the Nazi era" and "Inventory of the economic history of East Frisia, the northern Emsland and the province of Groningen in the 19th and 20th centuries" , the historical database of East Friesland and the "Digital Document Book Groningen, Drenthe and East Friesland."

Parisius is a member of the committee of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen and the Historical Commission for Nassau . On October 15, 2015, Bernhard Parisius retired at a ceremony in Aurich.

Fonts

Monographs

• “From the resentment of little people” to the program of small steps. Labor movement in the Duchy of Oldenburg 1840–90. (= Oldenburg Studies 27). Oldenburg 1985 (at the same time dissertation at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).
• Life paths in the district. Experiences between the turn of the century and the coal crisis - told by women and men from Borbeck. 2nd Edition. Essen 1985.
• Many looked for their new home on their own. Refugees and displaced persons in western Lower Saxony. 2nd Edition. Aurich 2004 (also habilitation at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg).

Editorships

• "... going towards democracy." The minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946, ed. and edit by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl (= Prehistory and History of Parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 11), Wiesbaden 1999.
• with Manfred Pult: Sources for the integration of refugees and displaced persons in Hesse. An inventory of the records in Hessian state, municipal, church and economic archives from 1945 to 1975. (= research on the integration of refugees and displaced persons in Hesse after 1945. Vol. 1). Wiesbaden 1992.
• with Klaus J. Bade and Hans Bernd Meier: Interview with contemporary witnesses. Refugees and displaced persons in the Osnabrück area after 1945. Osnabrück 1997.

Brochures and catalogs

• with Franz Brüggemeier, Ingrid Klare, Lutz Niethammer: Results of a survey on holdings and ongoing projects on oral history in the Federal Republic of Germany. Hagen 1983.
• with Markus Müller-Henning: From new citizen to fellow citizen. The reception of the displaced persons in Wiesbaden and Hesse. An exhibition of the Hessian main state archives. Wiesbaden 1992.

Web links

• Lower Saxony State Archives - Aurich location
• Hon.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Parisius at the University of Oldenburg
• Entry in the expert database Migration in Europe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Lower Saxony State Archives: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Parisius . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
2. ^ Lower Saxony State Archives: Aurich site . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
3. ^ Church district north: Gnadenkirche Tidofeld / association & employees . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
4. ↑ Wirtschaftsarchiv Nord-West-Niedersachsen: Organization ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 7, 2015. 
5. ↑ Paul Weßels : "An expression of the spiritual and cultural East Frisian life". The publication of the first yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden in 1872 . (Book of the month from the Aurich Landscape Library). Retrieved September 7, 2015 (PDF file; 255 kB).
6. ^ East Frisian Landscape: Student Prize for East Frisian Culture and History . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
7. ^ Paul Weßels: The historical place database Ostfriesland (HOO) . Accessed September 7, 2015 (PDF file; 43.1 kB).
8. ^ Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen: Committee . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
9. ↑ Main State Archive Hessen: Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 7, 2015.  
10. ↑ this exhibition has been reconstructed on the Internet and can be found at: digam.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .