Erwin Assmann

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Grave in the Nordfriedhof Kiel

Erwin Assmann or Erwin Assmann (born April 25, 1908 in Kolberg , † September 22, 1984 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

Erwin Assmann studied from 1926 to 1931 at the Universities of Marburg and Greifswald , where he passed the state examination for teaching in Greek, Latin and history. In Greifswald he received his doctorate in 1930 with Konrat Ziegler with the edition of the Liber memorialis by Lucius Ampelius . From 1934 Assmann worked for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In 1943 Adolf Hofmeister did his habilitation in Greifswald with a thesis on sea trade and shipping in Stettin in the Middle Ages. In the school service he was active at high schools in Stargard and in Bergen . After serving in the army in the Second World War and being a prisoner of war, he began a new beginning in Schleswig-Holstein (in Büsum , Flensburg , Plön and Rendsburg ). In 1955 he became an adjunct professor for Middle Latin Philology and Medieval History at the University of Kiel . From 1956 to 1959 he was director of the Kiel School of Academics , then head of the department for grammar schools in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education and from 1967 until his retirement in 1973 he was state school director.

His main research interests were the regional history of the Baltic Sea region, especially Pomerania, where the publication of the eighth volume of the Pomeranian Document Book (1331-1335) was of particular importance. He made lasting contributions to the history of Schleswig-Holstein by editing, translating and commenting on “Godeschalcus” and “Visio Godeschalci” (1979). The contemporary descriptions of the visions and living conditions of the small farmer Gottschalk are central sources for the colonization of East Holstein in the Middle Ages. From 1952 he was a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania , from 1955 to 1965 editor of the Baltic Studies and from 1954 to 1962 member of the board of the Hanseatic History Association .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Stettin's maritime trade and shipping in the Middle Ages. Holzner, Kitzingen / Main 1951.

Editorships and editions

  • Lucii Ampelii Liber memorialis. Leipzig / Greifswald 1935, ND Teubner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-519-01946-9 .
  • Pomeranian document book . Vol. 8: 1331–1335 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1961.
  • Godeschalcus and Visio Godeschalci (= sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 74). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02174-1 .
  • Guntheri Ligurinus (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores. Vol. 63). Hahn, Hannover 1984, ISBN 3-7752-5138-3 .

literature

  • Oliver Auge , Martin Göllnitz: State historical magazines and university state history: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. National and regional historical journals in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Research on regional history, vol. 73). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77730-0 , pp. 69–125, here: pp. 95f.
  • Horst Fuhrmann : Obituary Erwin Assmann. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 43 (1987), pp. 351–353 ( digitized version )
  • Erich Hoffmann : Erwin Assmann (April 25, 1908– September 22, 1984). In: Baltic Studies 71 (1985), pp. 146-147.
  • Erich Hoffmann: Erwin Assmann 1908–1984. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 103 (1985), pp. 1–2 (with portrait photo).
  • Assmann, Erwin. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.

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personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assmann, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1984
Place of death Kiel