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Charlotte (Lotte) Helene Frieda Knabe (born January 30, 1907 in Metz , † October 17, 1991 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Lotte Knabe grew up in Freyburg (Unstrut) as the daughter of Paul Knabe (died 1937), partner in the Kloss & Foerster sparkling wine producer in Freyburg / Unstrut, and Helene Syffert (born January 15, 1881) and attended the secondary school for girls in Naumburg ( Saale) . In 1923 she received her high school diploma from the Provincial Examination Institute in Droyßig and then devoted herself to looking after her parents' household. In 1929 she passed her Abitur as an external student at the Deutsche Oberschule and then began studying history, German, art history and Latin at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , the Philipps University in Marburg and the Humboldt University in Berlin . 1935 Lotte boy when was Albert Brack man to Dr. phil. doctorate and passed the state examination for the higher teaching post the following year.

Lotte Knabe did not pursue a teaching career, but instead attended the Prussian Institute for Archival Studies and Historical Studies in Berlin-Dahlem in 1936/1937 in order to train as an archivist. After completing her apprenticeship, she acquired practical skills by organizing the Tangermünde , Loburg , Gröningen and Osterwieck city ​​archives .

On October 1, 1938, Lotte Knabe was given a permanent position at the newly formed archives advice center of the Province of Saxony in the Magdeburg State Archives . She devoted herself to the work of archivist in the following decade. As a result, she personally has a large share in securing and preserving archival sources of non-state provenance, in particular estate and family archives, in the Prussian province of Saxony and the later state of Saxony-Anhalt . For example, in 1939 she arranged the Meineweh estate archive .

Because of the increasing danger of bombs in Magdeburg, the archive advice center was first relocated to Freyburg (Unstrut) in 1944. Later another relocation to Naumburg (Saale) took place .

In the first weeks after the war, Knabe stayed in Wernigerode and dealt with the further development of the princely archive there. After the archive director Walter Möllenberg was dismissed , she took over the provisional management of the Magdeburg State Archives on February 1, 1946, which she held until April 20, 1948. Then she went back to the archive advice center of the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Naumburg. From there she was also responsible for archival maintenance work in the area of ​​the dissolved administrative district of Erfurt, which had belonged to the state of Thuringia since 1945, on behalf of the Thuringian State Office for National Education (later the State of Thuringia - Ministry of National Education) until the spring of 1947. Lotte Knabe left the service on December 31, 1948. She had initially been promised the management of the Erfurt City Archives, but this failed, so that from February 1 to the end of July 1949 she worked as an unskilled worker in the Merseburg office of the German Central Archives. On August 1, 1949, she moved to the headquarters of this authority in Potsdam and from there on October 1, 1953 to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Until she retired on January 31, 1967, she devoted herself to indexing and editing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's political writings .

Works (selection)

  • The Gelasian theory of two violence until the end of the investiture controversy , 1935 (dissertation)
  • The reorganization of the holdings of the former Reichsarchiv in the German Central Archive in Potsdam. In: Archive Messages 1952, No. 3, pp. 43f.
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . All writings and letters. Edited by the GDR Academy of Sciences. Fourth row: Politische Schriften, 2nd vol .: 1677–1687. Arranged by Lotte Knabe u. a .; 3rd vol .: 1688-1689. Arranged by Lotte Knabe in collaboration with Margot Faak. Berlin 1963, 1968.
  • Hagen, Ludwig Philipp Freiherr vom. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966,ISBN 3-428-00188-5, p. 480 f. ( Digitized version ).

Literature / archive

  • Frank Boblenz : Charlotte Helene Frieda Knabe (1907–1991). In: Thuringian archivists' images of life. Published by the board of the Thuringian Archives Association. Rudolstadt 2001, pp. 126-132.
  • Frank Boblenz: Inventory of the archives advice center of the province of Saxony of the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar developed. In: Archives in Thuringia. Vol. 23 (2002), pp. 30-33 ( online ).
  • Josef Hartmann : In memory of Dr. Charlotte boy. In: Saxony and Anhalt. 18: 607-611 (1994).
  • Ulrike Höroldt : Knabe, Charlotte (Lotte) Helene Frieda, Dr. phil . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 248-251.
  • Ralf Kahmann: A tingling story, The Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei 1856-2006, Freyburg / Unstrut 2006
  • Institute for the History of the Person (IPG), Bensheim, Vorlass Werner Kittel, folders SYFFERT

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxony and Anhalt, 15 (1939), p. 427
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boy, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1991
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf