Regional historical association for the Mark Brandenburg

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The State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg e. V. ( listen ? / I ) is one of the largest and oldest history societies in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg with around 800 members . The association was founded in 1884 under the name Tourist Club for the Mark Brandenburg ; The aim was to hike the Mark Brandenburg . Theodor Fontane was the first honorary member of the association . In contrast to local homeland associations , the association deals with topics from the entire area of ​​both federal states as well as all areas that belonged to Brandenburg at any point in time. The Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung cooperates with numerous other societies, historical societies and organizations. Audio file / audio sample

The main activities of the association are

  • the exploration of Brandenburg on excursions and hikes
  • promoting scientific research into the history of the state through lectures, conferences and publications
  • the collection of literature and sources in an archive and a publicly accessible library comprising around 40,000 volumes in the Berlin Central and State Library

The association publishes the Yearbook for Brandenburg State History ( ISSN  0447-2683 ). The volumes of the yearbook between 1950 and 1969 have been made available online in full text via a server at the Humboldt University.

The chairman of the association is the Berlin historian Peter Bahl , his deputies Frank Göse and Gerhard Weiduschat.

Honorary members

of the association are: Prof. Dr. Ernst Badstübner , Dr. Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger , Prof. Dr. Friedrich Beck , Dr. Eva Börsch-Supan , Prof. Dr. Helmut Börsch-Supan , Dr. hc Günter de Bruyn , Dr. Felix Escher , Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ribbe , Dr. Peter P. Rohrlach and Prof. Dr. Winfried Schich .

Corresponding members

are: Zbigniew Czarnuch , Torsten Foelsch , Dorothee Geßner .

Fontane badge

The Fontane plaque is a medal that has been awarded by the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg since 1911. It is awarded for “long-term membership in connection with special services to the association” - sometimes several medals in one year. In the beginning, the medal was partly awarded to organizations, later exclusively to individual members. The medal was designed in 1911 by the teacher, sculptor and medalist Paul Matzdorf . Between 1928 and 1969 the medal was awarded in a bronze version and a silver version. Until 1935 the medal was awarded under the old club name.

Individuals and organizations who have received the badge are (selection):

  • 1911 Historical Association for Local Lore in Frankfurt a. O., awarded on the occasion of the 50th anniversary
  • 1912 Berlin Tourist Association from 1887 (Klub der Wanderfreunde), awarded on the occasion of its 25th anniversary
  • 1912 Ernst Friedel (1837–1918), Privy Councilor, founder of the Märkisches Museum, chairman of Brandenburgia; awarded on the occasion of his 75th birthday
  • 1917 Brandenburgia : Society for Local Studies of the Province of Brandenburg (this award is not guaranteed)
  • 1934 Willy Hoppe (1884–1960), historian, university professor (member only from 1944 when he was awarded honorary membership)
  • 1935 August von Mackensen (1849–1945), General Field Marshal, landowner on Brüssow, member since 1936
  • 1940 Friedrich Schmidt-Ott (1860–1956), Minister of State in Berlin, member since 1939.
  • 1940 Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin (1865–1945), former State Director of the Province of Brandenburg, President of the German Red Cross.

Awards after the new issue of 1959:

  • 1959 Walter Stengel (1882–1960), former director of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin, member since 1930
  • 1959 Willy Hoppe (1884–1960), also holder of the plaque in 1934, honorary member of the society since 1944
  • 1965 Hermann Fricke (1895–1982), literary historian, member since 1947, 1949–50 librarian, since 1970 honorary member.
  • 1969 Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), prehistoric, head of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin-Charlottenburg, member since 1951.
  • 1971 Kurt Pomplun (1910–1977), surveying engineer, city inspector in Berlin, local history researcher, publicist
  • 1971 Hans E. Pappenheim (1908–1973), art historian in Berlin, member since 1951
  • 1975 Hans-Werner Klünner (1928–1999), archive, then senate employee, city historian, publicist in Berlin
  • 1978 Liselott Ziegert-Hackbarth (1913–2013), art historian, bookseller in Berlin
  • 1978 Werner Vogel (1930–2016), archive director at the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem, later its director

Awards since the bronze re-issue in 1984:

  • 1984 Michael Engel (publisher) (1941–2011), qualified chemist, senior librarian in Berlin, publisher
  • 1989 Manfred Stürzbecher (* 1928), medical officer, medical director in Berlin, medical historian
  • 1997 Eckart Henning (* 1940), director of the archive on the history of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem
  • 1997 Peter P. Rohrlach (* 1933), historian and librarian
  • 1999 Felix Escher (* 1945), historian
  • 2000 Albert Burkhart (1927–2002), teacher, translator and writer
  • 2000 Kurt Trumpa (1914–2007), doctor and local researcher, long-time chairman of the local history association for the Zehlendorf district
  • 2007 Wolfgang Stapp (1927–2017), publisher and bookseller in Berlin
  • 2009 Gerhard Weiduschat (* 1952), historian
  • 2015 Zbigniew Czarnuch (* 1930), Polish teacher, journalist and local history researcher
  • 2017 Reinhard Schmook (* 1951), historian and folklorist, former head of the Oderlandmuseum Bad Freienwalde
  • 2018 Andreas Kalesse (* 1952), monument conservator, former city curator of Potsdam
  • 2018 Hans-Jürgen Rach (* 1940), monument conservator and building researcher
  • 2019 Hubertus Fischer (* 1943), Germanist and literary historian

literature

  • Peter Bahl : The archive of the State History Association for the Mark Brandenburg and its holdings , Peter Lang, Frankfurt, M. etc. 2009, (Series: State History Association for the Mark Brandenburg: Writings of the State History Association for the Mark Brandenburg; NF, vol. 3), ISBN 978-3-631-59324-0 .
  • The regional historical association for the Mark Brandenburg in the past and present . On the occasion of its 125th anniversary. u. ed. by Peter Bahl. With contributions from Helga Babin u. a. Berlin 2009 (Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, NF, Vol. 2).
  • Peter Bahl: The Fontane plaque: A contribution from the border area between regional history and medal science . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History 55 (2004), pp. 164–205.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BAK 12/09 From the hiking association to the research archive - 125 years of the regional historical association (report from the Berlin Information Working Group on the association's 125th anniversary)
  2. ↑ see the extensive list of cooperations at http://geschichte-brandenburg.de/lv-neu/partner.html
  3. ↑ see archived copy ( memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edoc.hu-berlin.de