Ernst Baasch

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Ernst Theodor Baasch (born November 19, 1861 in Hamburg , † January 29, 1947 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian and librarian .

Ernst Baasch came from a respected Hamburg merchant family. From 1878 Baasch attended the Johanneum School of Academics . There he passed the Abitur in 1883. He then studied history, geography and economics in Berlin , Tübingen and Marburg . Georg von Below became his most important academic teacher with whom he remained lifelong friends. In 1887, Baasch received his doctorate in medieval history with the thesis The Tax in the Duchy of Baiern up to the 1st rural freedom letter (1311) . In 1888 he became a volunteer at the Hamburg City Archives. In the same year he became an assistant to the Commerzbibliothek, representing the seriously ill librarian Hermann Otto Matsen. In 1889, the Chamber of Commerce elected him to be the head librarian. Baasch was decided against all efforts to found a university in Hamburg. In the university plans he saw an “infiltration” of the city's merchant character. The Chamber of Commerce shared his aversion to establishing a university. Baasch feared "intellectual infiltration" not only in the university project by "foreign scholars", but also in the filling of non-local people in civil servants in important cultural institutions.

In Hamburg he wrote fundamental works on Hamburg's economic and trade relations. In 1915 Baasch presented a three-volume work for the 250th anniversary of the Chamber of Commerce with the work Die Handelskammer zu Hamburg 1665–1915 . He was then awarded the title of “Director of the Commerzbibliothek”. In 1919, however, the chamber made the decision to part with Baasch. In order not to get into a political offside position, the Chamber had to react to the changed political situation in view of the election results of March 1919, which gave the SPD 50.5 percent of the vote. The founding of the university was decisive for the separation from Baasch. Baasch then went from Hamburg to Freiburg. Together with von Below he became a member of the DNVP and supported the fight against the Weimar Republic . In 1919, at the instigation of Belows, Baasch received an honorary doctorate . In his two-volume history of Hamburg 1814–1918 published in 1924/25 , both the role of the Jews and that of the Social Democrats were commented on with hostility. The changes in political conditions that occurred with the revolution of 1918 were compared with the French occupation from 1806 to 1814. In Freiburg originated with Dutch economic history (1927) and history of the Hamburg newspaper industry. From the beginning up to 1914 two important monographs.

Fonts

  • The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. 1665-1915. 3 volumes. Gräfe & Sillem, Hamburg 1915. ( digitized version )
  • Sources on the history of Hamburg's trade and shipping in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. 5 volumes. Gräfe & Sillem, Hamburg 1908–1910.
  • Hamburg's trade and traffic in the 19th century. Actien-Gesellschaft Neue Börsen-Halle, Hamburg 1901.
  • Hamburg's convoy shipping and convoy affairs. A contribution to the history of shipping and shipping facilities in the 17th and 18th centuries. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1896, ( digitized ).
  • The tax in the Duchy of Baiern up to the 1st state freedom letter (1311). Marburg 1888, (Marburg, University, dissertation, 1886; digitized ).
  • The commercial library in Hamburg. An excellent look back at its earlier history. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 36, 1919, pp. 147–157. ( Digitized version )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Joist Grolle: Looking back in anger. Ernst Baasch's trauma to the revolution . In: Ders., Hamburg und seine Historiker, Hamburg 1997, pp. 99–122, here: p. 120.
personal data
SURNAME Baasch, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baasch, Ernst Theodor (full name); Baasch, Emil (wrong form of name); Baasch, E .; Baaš, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1947
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau