Eberhard Faden
Eberhard Faden (born September 1, 1889 in Berlin-Moabit ; † November 26, 1973 in Berlin-Hermsdorf ) was a German historian , school teacher and head of the Berlin City Archives from 1939 to 1945.
Life
Faden was the son of a Prussian official who worked as a librarian in the Reich Office of the Interior . In 1917 he married Christina Weick.
He went to school at the Luisenstädtischen Gymnasium and began studying German , history and geography in Berlin in 1908 . During his studies he was a member of the German-Völkisch student association and the Ostmarkverein. In addition, he was involved in the student committee. In 1914 he completed his doctorate .
Immediately afterwards he entered the military and was seriously wounded in front of Verdun , which resulted in a long hospital stay . The Secret State Archives (PK) keep many of the letters he wrote to Otto Hintze during the First World War.
In 1918 and 1919 he completed his university education with a state examination and a pedagogical examination. Until 1939 he taught at the Schillergymnasium in Berlin, where he continued to research local history. In 1928 he was appointed to the test center for history books of the Prussian higher education institutions , where he worked until the 1940s. In 1937 he was one of the authors of the scientific commemorative publication for the 700th anniversary of the city of Berlin . In 1939, after the forced retirement of the city archives director Ernst Kaeber, he was appointed his successor. Faden dealt with genealogy research, the war history of Berlin and the protection and evacuation of archival materials during the Second World War . With the end of National Socialism in 1945, his activity as city archives director ended, although he was not incriminated in the denazification process . From 1950 to 1955 he worked again in the school service.
Faden had been a member of the Association for the History of Berlin since 1926 . From 1934 to 1945 he was its first deputy chairman.
He was a member of the German People's Party , he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In addition, he was loud self-disclosure in Reichsluftschutzbund , in the National Socialist People's Welfare , the National Socialist Teachers League , the National Kriegsopferversorgung , RKolBd and the Association of German East .
Honors
Web links
- Entry by Faden on berlin.friedparks.de
- Short curriculum vitae on the website of the Association for the History of Berlin
- Group picture of the Association for the History of Berlin with Faden (1935)
Works (selection)
- Berlin in the Thirty Years' War (= dissertation), Berlin 1914.
- History of the city of Berlin. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the Reich capital , published with Max Arendt and Otto-Friedrich Gandert, Berlin 1937.
- Friedrich Solger . 1877-1965 . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 18, 1967, pp. 142-147.
For an overview see: Hans-Werner Klünner: Bibliography Eberhard Faden. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History 25, Berlin 1974, pp. 212–217.
Literature and Sources
Complete overview
- Peter Bahl (arr.): Faden, Eberhard . In: The archive of the Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung der Mark Brandenburg and its holdings (= writings of the Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung, vol. 3), Frankfurt 2009, pp. 38–39. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
Literature (selection)
- Werner Vogel: Eberhard Faden (September 1, 1889 - November 26, 1973) . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History, 25, Berlin 1974, pp. 206-211. (with picture)
- Joachim Lachmann: Dr. Eberhard Faden † . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin, year 70, Berlin 1974, p. 404.
- Jürgen Wetzel : Eberhard Faden . In: Friedrich Beck / Klaus Neitmann (eds.): Life pictures of Brandenburg archivists and historians (= Brandenburg Historical Studies, Volume 16), o. O. 2013.
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- Estate, partial estate or fragments of the estate in the archive of the State Historical Association of the Mark Brandenburg (inventory B15), in the Berlin State Archive , in the Freiburg Military Archive , Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage and in the archive of the Association for the History of Berlin .
Individual evidence
- ^ Archive database of the GStA PK. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ^ The history of the Society for the History of Berlin , 1934.
- ↑ Membership number 2.580.241
- ↑ The History of Berlin (accessed July 26, 2016)
City Archives Berlin: Johann Friedrich Zander (1824–1846) | Ernst Fidicin (1848–1878) | Paul Clauswitz (1878–1912) | Ernst Kaeber (1913–1937) | Eberhard Faden (1937–1945) | Ernst Kaeber (1945–1948)
City Archives East Berlin: Hans-Theodor Schmidt (1949–1953) | Gertrud Rosenmeyer (1953–1959) | Rudi Liening (1960–1980) | Werner Gahrig (1981–1990)
City and State Archives West Berlin: Ernst Kaeber (1948–1955) | Konrad Kettig (1955–1958) | Bertold Schulze ( com. 1958–1960) | Joachim Lachmann (1960–1962) | Gerhard Zimmermann ( com. 1962–1964) | Gerhard Kutzsch (1964–1979) | Hans-Joachim Reichardt (1979–1990)
Landesarchiv Berlin: Dagmar Unverhauen (1990–1991) | Jürgen Wetzel (1991–2003) | Klaus Dettmer (as deputy 2003–2005) | Uwe Schaper (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faden, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, school teacher and head of the Berlin City Archives (1939–1945) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Moabit |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Hermsdorf |