Georg Fink (archivist)

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Georg Fink (born March 30, 1884 in Gambach (Munzenberg) , † January 20, 1966 in Lübeck ) was a German archivist .

Life

Georg Fink was the son of the Protestant pastor in Gambach Karl Fink (1851–1917) and his wife Else, née. Engelbach. He attended the Neue Gymnasium in Darmstadt and the Gymnasium in Bensheim . He graduated from high school in Bensheim in 1903. He then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle and Bonn . From the winter semester of 1904/05, he switched to history, German studies and law. In 1907 he was in Bonn with a dissertation supervised by Aloys Schulte on the status of the convents and founders of the diocese of Münster and Herford Abbeyto the Dr. phil. PhD. From September 1, 1907, he completed his one-year military service. On November 15, 1909, he joined the archives service as a volunteer at the district archive in Metz (then the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine ). On October 1, 1910, he was taken on as a research assistant . At the beginning of 1912 he moved to the Princely Löwenstein-Wertheim- Freudenberg Archives in Wertheim ; since April 1, 1913, he worked at the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt. Drafted in the First World War, he became a lieutenant , was in France and Courland and received the Hessian Medal for Bravery and the Iron Cross, Second and First Class. In August 1919, he succeeded Fritz Rörig in the second academic position at the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , where he worked until 1946, from 1933 as director, initially with the rank of archivist, and from 1938 as archivist. During his term of office, he took over the foreclosed loge house in 1936 for the archive and moved there, the change in the status of the archive due to the loss of Lübeck's independence in the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937 and the segregation and relocation of important archive holdings to the salt mine during World War II Gröna near Bernburg (Saale) . In the course of the dismissal of the director of the city ​​library Willy Pieth and his deputy Heinrich Schneider by the National Socialist Senate, he also became provisional director of the city library in April 1933.

Fink had initially belonged to the German People's Party . In the state election in 1923 he stood for a local German-ethnic group and was a member of the citizenship of Lübeck until 1926. The group joined the Deutschvölkische Freedom Party , whereupon Fink retired, according to his own statements. Since April 1, 1933, he was a member of the NSDAP .

Because of his advocacy of National Socialism , he was dismissed by the British military government on February 27, 1946 . His successor was Ahasver von Brandt . After several appointment procedures, Fink, who had meanwhile worked as a freelance graphic artist and heraldist, was downgraded from Group III to Group V in 1949 and was granted his full pension as archive director.

Fink was a long-time member of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology and from April 1933, as successor to Johannes Kretzschmar, its chairman.

Part of Fink's estate with manuscripts and material collections is in the Lübeck archive.

Fonts

  • Social status in convents and founders of the diocese of Münster and Herford Abbey. Münster: Regensberg 1907, zugl. Bonn, Phil. Fac., Ref. Schulte, Diss. Dec. 18, 1907; also as: magazine for patriotic history and antiquity , vol. 65, section 1 (Münster)
  • (Staff) Directory of Hessian wisdoms. With the assistance of Georg Fink, edited by Wilhelm Müller. Darmstadt: Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1916
  • History of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt. Darmstadt, State Archives: Historical Association for Hesse 1925
  • with Anton Hagedorn , Karl Reineke: Hanseatic family history research (Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen). Leipzig: Central Office for German Personal and Family History 1930
  • The bet and the development of the police in Lübeck. [Association f. Lübeck history a. Antiquity], 1934
  • The change of the Lübeck Schiffer-Gesellschaft with the purchase of their house in 1535. Lübeck: Schiffer-Gesellschaft 1935
  • Lübeck: The life path of a Hanseatic city. Book decoration: Karl Gieth , Lübeck: Nöhring 1936
  • The Hanseatic League. Leipzig: Bibliographical Institute 1939 (Meyer's colorful ribbon 43)
  • (posthumously) Lübeck and its military. From the beginning until 1939 . Edited by Otto Wiehmann and Antjekathrin Graßmann . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-3115-X ( small booklets on city history 16)

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Spies: Georg Fink (1884-1966): the path of a Hessian archivist to Lübeck. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology NF 67 (2009)
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , esp.p. 885f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ offsite storage Grona at Lost Art
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 50, p. 352
  3. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : "The work continued in the usual way"? The Association for Lübeck History and Archeology, the Bremen Historical Society and the Hanseatic History Association in the Nazi era. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 141/142 (2005/2006), pp. 289–345, here p. 295
  4. ↑ Inventory 8 / 05.5 Fink, Georg (Archivist) (old inventory )
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Gambach (Munzenberg)
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1966
Place of death Lübeck