Friedrich Techen

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Christoph Johann Friedrich Techen (born June 12, 1859 in Wismar ; † March 30, 1936 in Wandsbek ) was a German historian .

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Friedrich Techen was born as the eldest son of the Wismar master bookbinder (Johann Heinrich) Georg Techen (* 1816) and grandson of the bookbinder Johann Friedrich Techen (1774–1865) who immigrated to Wismar. He attended the Große Stadtschule Wismar from 1867 to 1879 , passed the Abitur at Easter 1879 and then studied ancient languages, history and German in Tübingen , Munich , Leipzig and Göttingen . In 1886 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation on "The songs of Mr. Jacob von Warte" and passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. He only worked briefly as a teacher in Schwerin and Doberan . In 1889 he was founded by the Wismar historian Dr. med. Friedrich Crull introduced into the Wismar Council Archives. When Crull finished his work in the council archives in 1902 at the age of 80, Techen became his successor. From 1905 to 1930 Techen was employed full-time in the Wismar Council Archives. He was the first full-time archivist in Wismar.

He earned great merit through the organization, listing and intensive analysis of the council archives. The card index he created was the basis of his numerous publications, especially on Wismar, Mecklenburg and Hanseatic history, and has remained an important tool in the Wismar city archive to this day.

Grave slab of Friedrich Techen in the cemetery of the Hanseatic city of Wismar

He developed both the subject indexes for volumes 13 to 16 and 19 to 22 of the “Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch” as well as the word and subject indexes for volumes 1 to 11 of the city of Lübeck's document book and worked on volume 2 of the inventory published by Friedrich Schlie “ The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ” (1898). Techen also gave the 8th (1910) and 9th volume (1913) of the III. Department of Hanse recesses out. He has published over 70 publications on the history of Wismar alone. The highlight of his research on Wismar's history is his “History of the Seestadt Wismar” published in 1929 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Wismar , which was reprinted unchanged in 1993.

In 1920 Techen was appointed to the board of directors of the Hanseatic History Association, and in 1927 the City Council of Wismar awarded him the title of archivist . Techen was a corresponding member of the Society of Science in Göttingen and an honorary member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and the Association for Lübeck History . Techen died in 1936 in Wandsbek, which was later incorporated into Hamburg, and found his final resting place in the Hanseatic city of Wismar.

In 1938 a new street in Wismar (it connects today's Philipp-Müller-Straße with Am Köppernitztal ) was named Friedrich-Techen-Straße . His library was auctioned in Hamburg in 1936.

Works (selection)

  • The chronicles of the Ribnitz monastery. - Schwerin, 1909. (= Mecklenburg historical sources , Volume I)
  • The oldest Wismar town book: from around 1250 to 1272 . - Wismar: Hinstorff, 1912. ( digitized version )
  • The civil languages ​​of the city of Wismar . - Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1906. ( digitized version )
  • History of the seaside town of Wismar . Schwerin 1993 (reprint of the Wismar 1929 edition). ISBN 3-910179-21-5
  • Wismar in the Middle Ages . - Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1910 ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • The tombstones of the Lübeck churches . - Lübeck: Rahtgens, 1898. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Hugo Lübetz: Friedrich Techen † . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. 100 (1936) pp. 281-290. Digitized
  • Hermann Entholt : In memory of Friedrich Techens. An obituary spoken at the meeting of the Hanseatic History Society in Wesel on June 2, 1936 . In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter , 61st year 1936, Weimar 1937, pp. 1–6; with portrait photo.
  • Christel Kindler, Fritz Huschner: On the 50th anniversary of the death of Archivrat Dr. Friedrich Techen . In: Wismar contributions. Series of publications by the Wismar City Archives , No. 3, Wismar 1986, pp. 98-104.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 238.
  2. ^ Auction catalog , October 14, 1936.
personal data
SURNAME Techen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Techen, Christoph Johann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1936
Place of death Wandsbek