Fritz Curschmann (geographer)

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Fritz Curschmann
Grave of Fritz Curschmann in the old cemetery in Greifswald

Fritz Curschmann (born March 17, 1874 in Berlin , † February 5, 1946 in Greifswald ) was a German historian and geographer. He established historical geography as an interdisciplinary university research area at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Fritz Curschmann was the son of the physician Heinrich Curschmann and his wife Margarethe, née Lohde. He attended the Royal High School in Leipzig from 1891 to 1895 , which he left with the school leaving certificate. He then studied law and economics, later switched to history and received his doctorate in 1900 at the University of Leipzig under Karl Lamprecht . Curschmann completed his habilitation in 1905 at the University of Greifswald and in 1909 became titular professor . He took part in the First World War as a captain in the artillery . In 1918 he became a professor at the University of Dorpat , but the following year he accepted an extraordinary professorship in Greifswald. From 1926 he was head of the historical-geographic seminar he founded. In 1928 he became a full professor and director of the history seminar.

During the time of National Socialism , Curschmann initially represented a völkisch-national stance and worked as a supervisor for the Northeast German Research Association in the context of folk and cultural soil research . Because of the Jewish origins of his grandmother Emilie Oppert, Fritz Curschmann was classified as a mixed race of the 2nd degree in 1936. As a result, he lost his license to examine and had to resign from his position as chairman of the International Committee for Historical Geography in 1937 due to travel restrictions. He was able to postpone his planned relegation in 1938 until his full retirement in 1939. His 70th birthday was not mentioned in the press on the instructions of the Propaganda Ministry. Fritz Curschmann died in 1946 as a result of a fall.

Fritz Curschmann built up the area of ​​historical geography at the University of Greifswald and designed historical atlases for Brandenburg and Pomerania . One focus of his work was the evaluation and implementation of the matriculation cards of the Swedish Land Registration of Western Pomerania . From 1921 until the end of his life he was chairman of the "Rügisch-Pomeranian History Association" and second chairman of the "Pomeranian Geographical Society". He was also a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

In Greifswald, the Fritz-Curschmann-Weg was named after him. The Hamburg business lawyer Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann is his son.

Works

Monographs

  • Famine in the Middle Ages. A contribution to German economic history from the 8th to 13th centuries , Leipzig 1900 ( online ).
  • The diocese of Brandenburg. Studies on the historical geography and constitutional history of an East German colonial diocese , Leipzig 1906, habilitation thesis, Neudruck Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014.
  • The older papal documents of the Archdiocese of Hamburg , Hamburg 1909.
  • The German place names in the northeast German colonial area , Stuttgart 1910.
  • Two pedigrees. Pedigree of Emperor Frederick I and Henry the Lion with 64 ancestors , Leipzig 1921.

items

  • The deed of foundation of the diocese of Havelberg . In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History , Vol. 28, 1903, pp. 393–434. ( Online )
  • A document inventory of the Spandau monastery . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History , Vol. 1, 1904, pp. 36–49.
  • The deed of foundation of the University of Greifswald . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , Vol. 7, 1906, pp. 1–25.
  • The creation of the Diocese of Oldenburg . In: Historische Vierteljahrschrift , Vol. 14, 1911, pp. 182–198.
  • The divisions of Pomerania in the Middle Ages and the administrative division of the modern age , In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , Vol. 12, 1911, pp. 159–337, also in: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der Deutschen Geschichts- und Alterthums-Vereine , Vol. 59, 1911, p 168-
  • When was Lothar von Supplinburg born? A genealogical study . In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony , vol. 85, 1920, pp. 83-96
  • Family tables of the Dukes of Swabia and Bavaria . In: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde , Vol. 48, 1920, pp. 55–58.
  • The enfeoffment of Duke Bogislaw I of Pomerania in the Lübeck camp (1181) . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , Vol. 31, 1937, pp. 5-34, also special print, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1937.
  • The state register of Loitz from 1343 . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , Vol. 34, 1940, pp. 1-46.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ King Albert Gymnasium (Royal Gymnasium until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880–1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905.
  2. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann: The historical-geographic seminar in Greifswald from 1926-1940. In: Ivo Asmus (Ed.): Geographical and historical contributions to regional studies in Pomerania. Eginhard Wegner on his 80th birthday (= Greifswalder geographical works. Special volume). Helms, Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-931185-48-6 , pp. 35-39.
  3. ^ Christoph Motsch: Frontier Society and Early Modern State. The Starostei Draheim between Western Pomerania, the Neumark and Greater Poland (1575–1805) (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 164). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35634-X , p. 36 (also: Potsdam, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).
  4. ^ Ines Oberling: Scholars from Jewish families at the University of Greifswald in the 19th century. In: Werner Buchholz : (Ed.): The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Pallas Athene. Vol. 10). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08475-4 , pp. 145–167, here 155.
  5. ^ Maud Antonia Viehberg: Restrictions against Greifswald university professors under National Socialism. In: Werner Buchholz (ed.): The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Pallas Athene. Vol. 10). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08475-4 , pp. 271-307, here pp. 283 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Curschmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1946
Place of death Greifswald