Everhard Kleinertz

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Everhard Karl Bernhard Kleinertz (born August 7, 1939 in Cologne ) is a German historian and archivist . From 1994 to 2004 he was the managing director of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne .

Career

Kleinertz was born in Cologne in 1939; his parents were the lawyer Karl Kleinertz and his wife Gertrud, b. Hülskamp. Due to the war damage in Cologne, he grew up in the Euskirchen district , attended elementary school in Stotzheim and left the Emil-Fischer-Gymnasium in Euskirchen in 1960 with the Abitur. He did his military service and from 1962 studied history, geography and sociology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . In the summer of 1968 he successfully passed the First State Examination in Philology . In 1971 he presented his dissertation with the title The Politics of the Estates in the Duchy of Prussia 1562-1568 at the University of Bonn.

In April 1973 Kleinertz joined the city ​​of Cologne . From 1979 to 1994 he was deputy director of the city's historical archive, and since 1994 its director as the successor to Hugo Stehkämper .

Kleinertz published a number of writings on the history of the city of Cologne. As head of the archive, he experienced an era of manpower savings and material resource cuts. During his tenure, the archive's workforce was more than halved. His successor was Bettina Schmidt-Czaia .

Publications (selection)

  • The politics of the estates in the Duchy of Prussia 1562-1568 Dissertation, Bonn 1972
  • Karl Marx and Cologne: 1842 - 1852. Letters, texts, images, facsimiles; Exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death. Historical archive of the city of Cologne, volume accompanying the exhibition March 3 - May 20, 1983.
  • Edited with Ottfried Dascher : Petitions and Barricades: Rhenish Revolutions 1848/49 . Edited by Ingeborg Schnelling-Reinicke and Eberhard Illner. Aschendorff, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-402-05378-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae from the dissertation: The politics of the estates in the Duchy of Prussia 1562-1568 , p. 255
  2. ^ Carl Dietmar: Concerning the City Archives , ksta.de, July 7, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Kleinertz, Everhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinertz, Everhard Karl Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne