Friedrich Wintterlin

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Karl Friedrich Wintterlin (born March 9, 1867 in Stuttgart ; † February 3, 1945 in Calw ) was a German legal and constitutional historian and archive director of the Württemberg archives (1924–1933). His most important works include the two-volume Württemberg rural legal sources (1910, 1922) and the history of the organization of authorities in Württemberg (1904, 1906). He also prepared a legal historical report assessing the legal basis of the services of the Württemberg state for the Catholic Church, for which the then Minister of Culture Wilhelm Bazille expressed his special thanks.

Live and act

Karl Friedrich Wintterlin was the son of the director of the regional library August Wintterlin and Emilie Charlotte born. Stälin, a sister of the regional historian and archive director Paul Friedrich Stälin and grandson of the "old master of Württemberg history" Christoph Friedrich von Stälin . After studying law in Tübingen and Leipzig and completing his legal clerkship in Stuttgart, he obtained his doctorate in 1895 on the subject of criminal law "The influence of the criminal's status on punishment". iur. As early as 1894 he was able to take up the post of archives secretary ("expeditor") at the Secret House and State Archives. In 1900 he was awarded the title of archivist, 1905 archivist and 1916 secret archivist. In 1924 he succeeded archive director Eugen Schneider . In 1933 he retired. He was considered slow-deliberate, calm-deliberate. He put the results of his research into three main organs:

  • in the Württemberg quarterly books for regional history,
  • the Württemberg yearbooks for statistics and regional studies and
  • the literary (special) supplement to the Württemberg State Gazette.

Since 1906 he was a full member of the Württemberg Commission for State History and the Württemberg History Association .

During his term of office, the association of the state archives fell under the archives directorate, to which the archives of the ministries of the interior and finance, which were combined with the Ludwigsburg state archive, were also subordinated.

As an employee at the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), Wintterlin took on the editing of numerous well-known Württembergians.

literature

  • Max Miller : Friedrich Wintterlin (obituary) with list of publications. In: Journal of Württemberg State History. 9 (1949/50), pp. 298-302.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Wintterlin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wikisource keeps a list of all articles: Category: ADB: Author: Friedrich Wintterlin .
personal data
SURNAME Wintterlin, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wintterlin, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal and constitutional historian and archive director
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1945
Place of death Calw