Georg Wilhelm von Raumer

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Georg Wilhelm von Raumer (born November 19, 1800 in Berlin ; † March 11, 1856 there ) was a Prussian administrative officer and director of the Secret State Archives .

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The son of the legation councilor and director of the Secret State Archives Karl Georg von Raumer (1753-1833), and Luise Lecke, daughter of Iserlohn's mayor Johann Caspar Lecke , attended the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium in Berlin and then studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Heidelberg. After his legal exam, Raumer was accepted into the Berlin Court of Appeal as an auscultator in 1823 and as a trainee lawyer in 1825 . Here he also gained his first experience in the Kurmärk Lehnsarchiv and therefore decided to study history.

After being employed as an assistant in the Ministry of Finance from 1829 onwards, Raumer was transferred to the Royal House Ministry on July 6, 1833 , where he was promoted to government councilor under Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and four years later to the secret councilor and was employed in archive administration. On November 1, 1839, he received an honorary legal doctorate from Berlin University. In 1842 he became a member of the General Order Commission.

A year later, on March 17, 1843, after his promotion to the Secret Higher Government Council in the House Ministry, Raumer also took over the directorate of the Secret State Archives, which his father had already headed from 1822 to 1833. Georg von Raumer held this position until 1852 and resigned from this post when the Royal House Archives were separated from the Secret State Archives. A few years later, on March 11, 1856, he died unexpectedly early at the age of 56. His final resting place, as the honor grave of the city of Berlin, he found in the Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II , in field G3 in Berlin.

Georg Wilhelm von Raumer attracted attention primarily with his main works: “ Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis continuatus ” and “ Regesta Historiae Brandenburgensis ”, which the historian Johann Friedrich Böhmer in particular had encouraged him to do . His detailed biographies and the collected letters by and about Friedrich Wilhelm I, as well as the history of the Secret State Archives, are among his other most important works.

Works (selection)

  • Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis continuatus , 2 volumes 1831–1833 (reprinted Olms, Hildesheim)
  • Regesta Historiae Brandenburgensis , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1836.1837
    • Historical charts and family tables for the Regesta Historiae Brandenburgensis , Nicolai Berlin 1837 text
  • The Neumark Brandenburg in 1337 or Margrave Ludwig's the Aelter Neumärkisches Landbuch from this time . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1837 ( full text ).
  • The tax constitution of the Mark Brandenburg at the time of Elector Joachim II, Märkische Forschungen . - Berlin: Ernst & Korn, ISSN  0934-120X , ZDB -ID 212971-1 , 1850
  • Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, Elector of Brandenburg Childhood: from archival sources , Decker, Berlin, 1850
  • The island of Wollin and the seaside resort of Misdroy , Decker, Berlin, 1851
  • Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, Elector of Brandenburg Youth: With his original letters from the Kgl. House archive , Decker, Berlin, 1853
  • History of the Secret State and Cabinet Archive in Berlin up to 1820 (edited by Eckart Henning ). In: Archivalische Zeitschrift , ed. from the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives. Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, Volume 72, 1976, pp. 30-75.

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SURNAME Raumer, Georg Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer and director of the Secret State Archives
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1856
Place of death Berlin