Carl Hinrichs (historian)

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Carl Hinrichs (born April 30, 1900 in Emden as Karl Friedrich Hinrichs, † March 6, 1962 in Berlin-Nikolassee ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Carl Hinrichs was born as the son of the businessman Carl Hinrichs (1864-1920) and Alida Tammina de Jonge (1871-1921). From 1919 to 1926 he studied German, history, art history, theology and philosophy in Heidelberg , Marburg , Bonn and Jena , where he received his doctorate in 1925 under Georg Mentz . From 1927 to 1932 he was an employee of Acta Borussica at the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1933 he was employed at the Secret State Archives in Berlin. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP , which later appointed him block warden . Hinrichs also became a member of the NSDDB , the NSV and the Reichsluftschutzbund . After completing his habilitation in Berlin in 1937 , he was transferred to the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg in 1938 , where he became a lecturer in 1942. In 1943/44 he took the chair for Theodor Schieder . Since 1944 he was an associate professor for medieval and modern history in Halle an der Saale .

In 1946 Hinrichs joined the CDU . In 1951 he moved to the Free University of Berlin as full professor of modern history , where he also became director of the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . He held the first chair for early modern times as an independent subject. His areas of specialization were intellectual history as well as constitutional and economic history. In 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

In 1928 Carl Hinrichs and Elfriede Klattenhoff (1903–1981) married. His widow published the work Prussianism and Pietism from the estate .

Carl Hinrichs died in Berlin in 1962 at the age of 61 and was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

A detailed bibliography of his works can be found in “Prussia as a historical problem. Collected papers ” , de Gruyter, Berlin 1964, pp. 421–430.

  • The East Frisian estates and the Prussian state 1744–1756. A contribution to the history of the internal state administration of Frederick the Great. Part 1: 1744-1748. In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden 22 (1927), pp. 1–268 (At the same time: Jena, Univ., Diss., 1925).
  • The wool industry in Prussia under Friedrich Wilhelm I. (= Acta Borussica , Dept. 2.E: The individual areas of administration ), Parey, Berlin 1933, reprint by Lorenz Keip, Berlin 1987, introduction by Stefi Jersch-Wenzel .
  • The Crown Prince Trial: Friedrich and Katte , Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1936.
  • (Ed.): Friedrich the Great and Maria Theresa. Diplomatic reports from Count Otto Christoph von Podewils , German v. Gertrud Countess v. Podewils-Dürniz, R. v. Decker Verlag, G. Schenck, Berlin 1937.
  • (Ed.): The omnipresent king. Frederick the Great in the Cabinet and on inspection trips. According to partly unpublished sources , R. v. Decker Verlag, G. Schenk, Berlin 1940.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm I, King in Prussia. A biography. Youth and Rise , Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1941.
  • (Ed.): Thomas Müntzer - Politische Schriften (= Hallische Monographien , No. 17), Halle (Saale) 1950.
  • Luther and Müntzer. Your dispute about authorities and the right to resist (= work on church history , vol. 29), Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1952.
  • Ranke and the historical theology of Goethe's time (= Göttingen building blocks for historical science , vol. 19), Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1954.
  • Prussia as a historical problem. Collected treatises , ed. by Gerhard Oestreich (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin , vol. 10), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1964.
  • Prussianism and Pietism. Pietism in Brandenburg-Prussia as a religious-social reform movement , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Waibel : Servants of Many Masters: Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 141.
  2. ↑ Ewald Grothe : Between history and law. German constitutional historiography 1900–1970 (= Ordnungssysteme. Vol. 16). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005 (also: Wuppertal, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2003), ISBN 3-486-57784-0 , p. 336 f.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 582.
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichs, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinrichs, Karl Friedrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1962
Place of death Berlin-Nikolassee