Fritz Rörig

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Fritz Rörig (born October 2, 1882 in St. Blasien , † April 29, 1952 in Berlin , actually Friedrich Hermann Rörig ) was a German historian . Rörig was the most important Hanseatic researcher of the first half of the 20th century.

life and work

Fritz Rörig was born the son of a self-employed pharmacist. The two-year-old's father died. He then grew up in Barmen . There he passed his Abitur in 1901. He studied history and a minor in political economy at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen . His academic teachers were Georg von Below , Konrad Beyerle and Gerhard Seeliger . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig and of the Association of German Students in Tübingen . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1906 with Gerhard Seeliger on a constitutional topic about the emergence of state sovereignty in the Archdiocese of Trier. Then he was initially an assistant librarian at the Leipzig Historical Institute. After working in an archive in Metz (from 1908 to 1910), he undertook further studies at the University of Göttingen .

Rörig began his path-defining work as a researcher in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . From 1911 to 1918, this was still the state archive of the Free Hanseatic City , the archive of the Hanseatic League and unscathed from the outsourcing of the Second World War and the subsequent shipments to the USSR . This time in Lübeck had a lasting impact on Rörig. In 1918 he became associate professor for historical auxiliary sciences in Leipzig. In 1923 he became a full professor for middle and modern history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1932, Rörig refused an appointment to Tübingen to succeed Johannes Haller . In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1935 he took over the chair for the history of the Middle Ages in Berlin as the successor to Erich Caspar . In 1942 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

As early as the 1920s, Rörig achieved an “approximation of the style of thought and language of völkisch research”, which was later confirmed to him by Nazi lecturers. Rörig gave lectures at the SS Junk School and was appointed to the board of the North and East German Research Association in 1936 . Despite this closeness to Nazi ideology, he did not become a member of the NSDAP , although according to his own statements he made contributions to the Nazi lecturers' association from 1939 to 1943 . He was therefore able to resume teaching at Berlin University in 1946, where he stayed for the next few years. From 1948 he headed the Berlin office of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica at the Berlin Academy. Rörig supervised over 40 dissertations. His academic students included Ahasver von Brandt , Friedrich Benninghoven , Eckhard Müller-Mertens and Bernhard Töpfer .

His main research areas were auxiliary sciences and the history of the Hanseatic League and the city. For Rörig, the Hanseatic League was one of the engines of the late medieval economic system. With this point of view, he decisively guided the further study of the Hanseatic League. From 1925 Rörig was a member of the board of the Hanseatic History Association.

Fonts

  • Economic forces in the Middle Ages. Treatises on city and Hanseatic history. Published by Paul Kaegbein. 2nd revised and supplemented edition. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1971.
  • The European city and the culture of the bourgeoisie in the Middle Ages (= Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe. Vol. 12/13). Edited by Luise Rörig. 2nd expanded edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1955.
  • On the legal history of territorial waters. Roadstead, stream and coastal waters (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. 1948 No. 2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1949.
  • About the development and nature of the Hansa. 4th edition. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1943.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 187.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebel: In Memoriam Fritz Rörig. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department , Vol. 70, 1953, pp. 427–431, here: p. 428.
  3. ↑ Birgit Noodt: Fritz Rörig (1882–1952): Lübeck, Hanse and the people's history. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Vol. 87, 2007, pp. 155-180, here: p. 171 ( online ).
  4. ^ Reimer Hansen: From the Friedrich Wilhelms to the Humboldt University in Berlin. In: Konrad Jarausch, Matthias Middell, Annette Vogt, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (eds.): History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810–2010. Socialist experiment and renewal in democracy - the Humboldt University of Berlin 1945–2010. Volume 3. Berlin 2010, pp. 19–123, here: pp. 52–53.
  5. ↑ Birgit Noodt: Fritz Rörig (1882–1952): Lübeck, Hanse and the people's history. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Vol. 87, 2007, pp. 155-180, here: p. 177 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Rörig, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rörig, Friedrich Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Blasien
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1952
Place of death Berlin