Claus Grimm (historian)

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Claus Walter Adalbert Grimm (born September 13, 1904 in Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † June 4, 1987 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ) was a German historian, teacher and archivist.

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Claus Grimm came from a German Baltic family who moved to Estonia from Bavaria . After attending grammar school in Pernau , he studied in Dorpat , Freiburg i. Br. And Rostock history, archeology, art history, philosophy and geography. He also attended the painting class at the art school in Dorpat. From 1938 to 1940 he taught at the Baltenschule Misdroy ; In 1940 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin . During the Second World War, Grimm served as a mountain trooper and in the war history department of the Army High Command.

After his return from captivity, Grimm taught at the Lindau grammar school from 1949 to 1970 . Since 1958 he has been in charge of the city archives and the former imperial library of Lindau . He volunteered as a district archivist for the district of Lindau , also on the board of the Lindau Museum Association and the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Both clubs awarded him honorary membership; the Bodensee-Geschichtsverein thanked him for his work as vice-president and especially for his work on the association's history. Grimm's research interests concerned the Baltic-Eastern European history and the history of the Lake Constance area; they are combined in his late essays on the Alpine campaign of the Russian general Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow in 1799 and on the 1st Russian National Army in Liechtenstein in 1945.

The art historian and former director of the House of Bavarian History Claus Grimm is his son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Suworow in Balzers . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein . Volume 73, 1973, pp. 204-214 ( digitized version ).
  • Interned Russians in Liechtenstein . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein . Volume 71, 1971, pp. 41-100 ( digitized version ).
  • Hundred years of cultural work on Lake Constance. For the foundation of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings on October 19, 1868 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 86, 1968, pp. 7-85 ( digitized version ).
  • At the gates of Europe 1918–1920. History of the Baltic Landwehr . AF Velmede, Hamburg 1963.
  • Lindau in Lake Constance . 3. Edition. Thorbecke, Konstanz 1959 (pictures by Toni Schneiders).
  • A western front 40 years ago. A contribution to the biography of the British Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis . In: East German Science . Volume 5, 1958, pp. 504-514.
  • Years of German decision in the Baltic States. 1918/1919 . Essener Verlags-Anstalt, Essen 1939 ( digitized version ).
  • The Baltic States . Border and Abroad Publishing House, Stuttgart 1935.
  • Graf Witte and German politics . Thiele, Lippstadt i. W. 1930.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 , pp. 1–302, here p. 4, p. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Claus Walter Adalbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, teacher and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Estonia , then the Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1987
Place of death Lindau (Lake Constance)