Christian Krollmann

Christian Anton Christoph Krollmann (born February 11, 1866 in Bremen , † July 19, 1944 in Königsberg ) was a German philologist , librarian and archivist . He was considered one of the greatest experts on East Prussia's regional history.

Life

Krollmann studied philology in Marburg , Munich and Halle and History at the University of Königsberg , where he in 1904 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In 1902 he became archivist for Prince Dohna in Schlobitten . City librarian since 1917, in 1924 he became head of the Königsberg City Library and the Königsberg City Archives . He retired in 1934.

In 1923 he was co-founder of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , with which he founded the Old Prussian biography . He saw it go to press up to “P”.

Fonts

• The establishment of the Defensionwerk in the Duchy of Prussia under the Margrave Georg Friedrich and the Elector Joachim Friedrich (also phil. Diss. At the Albertus University Königsberg i. Pr.). Part I, Berlin 1904.
• East Prussia's castles , Berlin 1905.
• The possession of the dead hand in the Prussian-Holland district at the time of the Teutonic Order , Berlin seat of the Association for the History of East and West Prussia 10 (1917), pp. 11-12
• The restoration of the epitaph of Peters Burggrafen zu Dohna from the Protestant church in Mohrungen . In: Oberländische Geschichtsblätter , No. 6, Königsberg 1904, pp. 81–94.
• Schlobitter memories of the year 1807 . In: Oberland history sheets . Issue 9, Königsberg 1907, pp. 1-13.
• The Defensionwerk in the Duchy of Prussia. Part II. The Defensionwerk under the Elector Johann Sigismund . Berlin 1908.
• King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Queen Luise in Schlobitten 1802 . In: Oberländische Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 3 (Issue 11–15), Königsberg 1909–1913.
• The Holy Spirit Hospital in Prussian Holland in the Middle Ages . In: Old Prussian Monthly Journal 53 (1917), pp. 466–482.
• History of the Königsberg City Library , Königsberg 1929.
• Political history of the Teutonic Order in Prussia , Königsberg 1932.
• The creation of the city of Königsberg <Pr.> , Ost-Europa-Verlag, Königsberg, Berlin 1939.

As editor

• The autobiography of Burgrave Fabian zu Dohna (1550-1621) together with files on the history of the succession of the Electors of Brandenburg in Prussia from the princely Dohna house archive in Schlobitten , Leipzig 1905.
• Landwehr letters 1813. A memorial in memory of Burgrave Ludwig zu Dohna-Schlobitten . In: Sources and presentations on the history of West Prussia, Vol. 9, Danzig 1913.
• Old Prussian biography , Königsberg 1936.

• Krollmann, Christian, A., Chr. In: Robert Volz: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 1022.

Web links

• Old Prussian biography
• The Steckelburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Krollmann, Christian Anton Christoph (1866–1944)  in Kalliope . Retrieved July 9, 2015.
2. ↑ Bernhart Jähnig, personal directories, in: 75 Years Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, ed. from dems. = Conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research 13, Lüneburg 1999, pp. 168–174.