Ernst Kaeber

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Ernst Kaeber (born December 5, 1882 in Charlottenburg , † July 5, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German historian and director of the Berlin State Archives .

Life

Memorial plaque in Moabit

Kaeber was the son of the director of the Charlottenburg waterworks Friedrich Kaeber. He attended the Städtische Realgymnasium in Charlottenburg and the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium . He then studied history and modern languages ​​in Berlin and Königsberg . In 1906 he received his doctorate in Berlin from Otto Hintze . In 1907, on the recommendation of his doctoral supervisor, he found a job as a volunteer at the Secret State Archives in Berlin. He passed the examination for the higher archive service May 19, 1908 with distinction.

After Paul Clauswitz resigned from the office of the Berlin city archivist , Kaeber successfully applied and was appointed on April 1, 1913. He professionalized the city archive in the following decades, according to the Berlin State Secretary for Culture André Schmitz , he is considered the "real founder of today's state archive". From 1915 to 1918 he fought in the First World War , which meant that he was only able to get into work intensively in 1919. The celebration of the 700th anniversary of the city of Berlin in 1937 was largely initiated by him.

As a member of the German Democratic Party , he was a member of the district assembly in Berlin-Tiergarten from 1925 to 1933 . In 1929 he married Frieda Cronheim. When Kaeber refused to separate from his Jewish wife, he was forced to retire on October 1, 1937 without paying a pension. In the following years, he, his wife and the widowed mother-in-law Paula Cronheim lived on the legacies of his father-in-law Ludwig Cronheim. From 1942 he was a research assistant at the archives advice center at the GStA ; from June 1945, a few weeks after the end of the war, Kaeber again headed the city archives. In 1949/50 he rebuilt the archive in West Berlin . He retired at the end of March 1950, but was reinstated as the city archives director on August 1, 1952. He retired on August 31, 1955 at the age of almost 73.

When Kaeber took office in 1913, he also joined the Association for the History of Berlin . Since 1926 he has volunteered in various offices. Even when he resigned all official offices in the association in 1937, he continued to look after the association's library. From 1953 he was again deputy chairman and from 1960 an assessor of the board.

His urn was buried in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde , but in 1988 it was reburied in the Jewish cemetery in Heerstraße .

Honors

Works (selection)

editor

  • Berlin books. From 1927 (founder of the series).
  • Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin . 1932-1937.
  • The citizen books and citizen protocol books of Berlin from 1701-1750 (= sources and research on the history of Berlin. Vol. 4). Berlin 1934.
  • Building blocks for the history of a cosmopolitan district. Berlin-Lichtenberg 1935.
  • Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. 1951–1961 (from 1952 with Walther G. Oschilewski ).

Monographs

  • The idea of ​​the European balance in journalistic literature from the 16th to the middle of the 18th century. Berlin 1906 (= doctoral thesis).
  • Berlin in the world war. Five years of urban war work At the request of Mayor Adolf Wermuth . Berlin 1921.
  • Berlin 1848. For the centenary of the March Revolution on behalf of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin. Berlin 1948.

Essays

  • Spiritual currents in Berlin at the time of Frederick the Great. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian history. Vol. 54, 1943, pp. 257-303.
  • The Lord Mayors of Berlin since the Stein city regulations. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. Episode 2, Berlin 1952.
  • Memories of the Berlin City Archives. At the same time a sketch of the history of the archive. In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. Episode 10, Berlin 1961.
  • Contributions to Berlin history. Selected essays (= publication of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 14). Berlin 1964.

literature

  • Konrad Kettig : Ernst Kaeber as a Berlin historian. For the 75th birthday. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin . 1957/1958, pp. 7-18.
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Ernst Kaeber in memory. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. Volume 11, p. 121 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Küchler: Obituary. In: Bulletin of the State History Association. No. 38 (September 1, 1961), p. 264.
  • Werner Vogel : Ernst Kaeber. Life and work. In: Ernst Kaeber. Contributions to Berlin history. Berlin 1964.
  • Joachim Lachmann: Ernst Kaeber in memory. In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. Episode 14, Berlin 1965.
  • Konrad Kettig: Ernst Kaeber in memory. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 1/1983, p. 22 f.
  • Olaf Hampe: Ernst Kaeber and the history of the state of Berlin. In: Berlin in the past and present. Berlin 1991.
  • Vera Bendt: Ernst and Frieda Kaeber. A German-Jewish marriage under National Socialism. In: Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives. 2007, pp. 151-167.
  • Klaus Dettmer / Björn Berghausen: On the way to a Berlin economic archive. In: Archive and Economy. 42nd volume (2009), no. 2, pp. 59-65 (picture Kaebers on p. 61; digitized ).
  • flip: And another blackboard. State Secretary for Culture unveils the memorial plaque for the archivist Ernst Kaeber. In: Berlin Week . Tiergarten edition, October 5, 2011 ( digitized version ).
  • André Schmitz : Ernst Kaeber in memory. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 4/2011, pp. 611–613.
  • Jürgen Wetzel : Passionate Berliner in stormy times. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 4/2011, pp. 613–618.
  • Martin Mende: Kaeber, Ernst. In: The history of Berlin - personalities. Association for the history of Berlin. Status: August 2014.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Kaeber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckart Henning: Archival materials and archivists of Prussia. Selected essays . Duncker & Humblodt, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-428-13919-4 , pp. 193 f .
  2. ↑ http://www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de/uploads/tx_tafeln//Ernst_Kaeber_Berliner_Woche_Tiergarten_5.10.2011_Ernst_Kaeber.pdf (accessed on June 29, 2016)
  3. ↑ berlin.friedparks.de (Ernst Kaeber)
  4. ↑ diegeschichteberlins.de (list of recipients of the Fidicin Medal)
  5. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class with box, awarded to Ernst Kaeber (1882-1961) , From the collections of the Jewish Museum Berlin (accessed on June 29, 2016)
  6. ↑ diegeschichteberlins.de (list of honorary members)
  7. ↑ Press release of the Senate Chancellery for Culture from September 26, 2011 (accessed on June 29, 2016)
    gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de (accessed on June 29, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kaeber, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city archivist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1961
Place of death Berlin