Fritz Weigle (historian)

Fritz Weigle (born May 14, 1899 in Danzig ; † December 28, 1966 in Munich ) was a German historian .

The son of a businessman grew up in Berlin. In 1918 he participated in the war. After the war he first worked as a primary school teacher. Weigle then decided to make up for the Abitur and completed a degree in Berlin. There he received his doctorate in 1934 under Ernst Perels on The Letters of Bishop Rather von Verona . Immediately after his doctorate he was won over by Paul Kehr to work on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). Initially oriented more towards political and sociological issues of the present, Weigle turned to medieval history in 1933 out of internal protest against the present. He belonged to neither the NSDAP nor any of its subdivisions. During the Second World War he went to the German Historical Institute in Rome and began his studies there on German students at the old universities of Italy.

After the war, he first became the government's cultural advisor for Central and Eastern Franconia in Ansbach . In the spring of 1947 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment with probation for not mentioning his activity at the BdS on the denazification questionnaire . In 1949 he went back to the MGH in Munich. In 1956 he became a corresponding member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per l'Umbria . Fritz Weigle published Gerbert's collection of letters from Reims and the edition of Rather's letters from Verona .

Fonts

Editorships and editions

The letters of Bishop Rather of Verona. Böhlau, Weimar 1949 ( online ).
The register of the German Nation in Perugia: (1579–1727) (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 21). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1956.
Gerbert's collection of letters from Reims. Weidmann, Berlin 1966.

literature

Herbert Grundmann : Obituary Fritz Weigle. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 22, 1966, p. 693 ( online ).
Wolfgang Hagemann : Fritz Weigle. In: Bollettino della Deputazione di Storia patria per l'Umbria 67, 1970, pp. 195-200.
Gerd Tellenbach : Obituary Fritz Weigle 1899–1966. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 47, 1967, pp. 641–642 ( online ).

Web links

Literature by and about Fritz Weigle in the catalog of the German National Library
Employee at Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich

Remarks

^ Jürgen Klöckler : Prevented archival theft in Italy. Theodor Mayer and the “Archive Protection” department at the military administration in Verona 1943–1945. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 86 (2006), pp. 491–537, here: p. 520 ( online )
^ Jürgen Klöckler: Prevented archival theft in Italy. Theodor Mayer and the “Archive Protection” department at the military administration in Verona 1943–1945. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 86 (2006), pp. 491–537, here: p. 500 ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Weigle, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 1966
Place of death	Munich

[1] Jürgen Klöckler : Prevented archival theft in Italy. Theodor Mayer and the “Archive Protection” department at the military administration in Verona 1943–1945. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 86 (2006), pp. 491–537, here: p. 520 ( online )

[2] Jürgen Klöckler: Prevented archival theft in Italy. Theodor Mayer and the “Archive Protection” department at the military administration in Verona 1943–1945. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 86 (2006), pp. 491–537, here: p. 500 ( online )