Erich way

Erich Weise (born September 4, 1895 in Krefeld , † April 10, 1972 in Hanover ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Erich Weise was born in Krefeld and grew up in Königsberg in Prussia . Since von Weise's mother came from the Baltic States , his father, the high school professor Julius Weise, had himself transferred to the East Prussian capital. After completing his school education, he began studying at the Albertina in Königsberg. He was surprised by the outbreak of the First World War in Mitau , the then capital of Courland (today Jelgava in Latvia ) and was interned in Russia for three years , which resulted in him being hard of hearing and finally deaf. After his return and the end of the First World War, he continued his studies and passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1921, which he was unable to take due to his illness. In the same year he did his doctorate as a historian under Albert Brackmann .

He embarked on an archival career. His professional stations were initially Berlin (1922–1927), Düsseldorf (1927–1930) and Königsberg i. Pr. (1930-1935). In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1935, Weise was appointed State Archives Councilor; later he worked as a department head, for example at the Secret State Archives in Berlin (1935–1939) and in Warsaw (1939–1942); In 1942 he took over the management of the newly established Posen Reich Archives . After the Second World War he came to the Prussian province of Hanover , which opened up in 1946 first in the state of Hanover and then in the state of Lower Saxony , where he set up the Stade State Archives on a voluntary basis . In 1948 it went to the Hanover State Archives . From 1959 until his retirement in 1960 he was Director of the State Archives in Stade.

During his time in Warsaw he removed all so-called “non-Aryans” and “politically unreliable” persons from the archives in the General Government of Poland. He directed the confiscation of all archive materials in the areas annexed by the German occupation. However, he initially spoke out against a large-scale relocation and organized its inspection. After the war, the Polish government made restitution claims on some of the seized archival material, including valuable medieval documents on the foreign relations of the Teutonic Knights.

His main research interests as a historian and archivist were the history of Prussia and the Teutonic Order . He published a. a. "Numerous source editions and representations in the elaboration of the history of the medieval Teutonic Order of Prussia". During his retirement he continued to work as an author and as a private scientist. He was married and, with the help of his wife, was able to take part in scientific conferences, despite his hearing impairment, where he “often made important, sometimes even contentious contributions”.

Erich Weise died at the age of 76 in Hanover, where he had taken up residence with his family a few years after the Second World War.

Afterlife

Most of Erich Weise's professional legacy is archived at the Lower Saxony State Archives (NLA) - Stade State Archives , primarily his manuscripts and material collections on scientific work and archival problems.

Publications (excerpt)

as an author or editor

• Finding aid for the inventory 27 Reich Chamber of Commerce (1500–1648) (=  publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration, inventories and smaller publications of the State Archives in Stade , No. 1). Edited by Heinz-Joachim Schulze. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-85960-0 .
• The authority of the Pope and Emperor and the mission to the East especially in the first half of the 13th century (=  Marburg East Research , Volume 31). J. G. Herder Institute , Marburg (Lahn) 1971.
• The State Treaties of the German Order in Prussia in the 15th century. Published on behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . 3-volume series:
  • Volume 3: 1467-1497. Gräfe and Unzer , Munich 1966.
  • Volume 2: 1438-1467. Elwert, Marburg (Lahn) 1955.
  • Volume 1: 1398-1437. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1939.
• History of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Stade together with an overview of its holdings (=  publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration , issue 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964.
• The Swabian settlements in the Poznan Chamber Department 1799–1804 (=  Marburg East Research , Volume 13). Holzner, Würzburg 1961.
• The right of resistance in the Order of Prussia and medieval Europe (=  publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration , no. 6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1955.
• as editor: The construction of the religious state: a work of Europe , Düsseldorf, Nadolny 1959
• as editor: The contribution of southern Germany to the construction of the religious state , Nadolny 1959

as editor

• East and West Prussia. Handbook of historical sites (=  Kröner's pocket edition , volume 317). Unchanged reprint of the 1st edition 1966. Alfred Kröner Verlag , Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-31701-X .

literature

• Fritz Gause, article Weise in Altpreußische Biographie III, Marburg 1975, p. 1072
• Stefan Lehr An almost forgotten "Eastern insert". German archivists in the Generalgouvernement and in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine , Schriften des Bundesarchivs 68, Düsseldorf, Droste Verlag 2007, review at HSozUKult by Matthias Manke

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Weise in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Erich Weise on the website Kulturportal West-Ost

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Information on Erich Weise on the website Kulturportal West-Ost . Retrieved April 4, 2013.
2. ^ Astrid M. Eckert The Struggle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War , Cambridge University Press 2012, p. 115.
3. ↑ Information on Erich Weise in the central database of bequests (ZDN) of the Federal Archives . Retrieved April 4, 2013.
4. ↑ pdf , review by Stefan Lehr An almost forgotten eastern entry by Astrid M. Eckert, based on Lehr, p. 111, where he again cites Weise himself, who believed in this.
5. ^ Matthias Manke, review by Lehr, HSozUKult
6. ↑ Wituszko et al. a., Instytut Pamieci Narodowej, Institute for National Remembrance, Polish ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Information about Erich Weise on the website of the Alfred Kröner Verlag . Retrieved April 4, 2013.
8. ^ Federal Archives estate database