Georg Winter (archivist)
Georg Winter (born April 28, 1895 in Neuruppin , † June 4, 1961 in Koblenz ) was a German historian , archivist and first director of the Federal Archives (1952–1960).
Life
Georg Winter studied history at the University of Berlin from 1918 to 1921 . After obtaining his doctorate, he completed the Prussian archives course at the Institute for Archival Science in Berlin-Dahlem in 1921/22 and then found a job as an archive assistant at the Secret State Archives . In 1927 he was appointed to the State Archives Council, in 1930 he was seconded to the Institute for Archives Science as managing director, and in 1938 he was promoted to State Archives Director.
From July 1940 to October 1941 winter was as chief war Board in the "Archive protection during military commander France in Paris" in use from late 1942 to 1944, he headed in Kiev the "state administration of archives, libraries and museums," which the Commission Ukraine was subordinated . In October 1942 he was appointed by Staff Leader Gerhard Utikal as deputy head of the "Special Staff Archive" of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg for the Rear Army Area South . In September 1943 he organized the deportation, among other things, of the holdings of the "Museum of Western European Art" from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and left the city on September 25th with his colleague Josef Benzing. Most recently, he looked after the evacuated holdings in the Reichsarchiv Troppau . At the end of 1944 he was transferred to the archives department of the Prussian State Ministry in Berlin.
From May to July 1945 he was acting director of the Secret State Archives . After a brief employment at the Hanover State Archives , he took over the management of the Lüneburg City Archives in 1946. In 1952 he became the first director of the newly founded Federal Archives in Koblenz and headed it until he retired in 1960.
literature
- Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , pp. 672-673.
- Wilhelm Rohr: Obituary for Georg Winter . In: Der Archivar, vol. 14, 1961, issue 2, col. 179 ff.
- Hans Booms : Georg Winter's way to founding director of the Federal Archives . In: Archive and History. Festschrift for Friedrich P. Kahlenberg , ed. by Klaus Oldenhage, Hermann Schreyer and Wolfram Werner (= writings of the Federal Archives 57), Düsseldorf 2000, pp. 240–263.
- Ulrike Hartung: Deported and missing: a documentation of German, Soviet and American files on Nazi art theft in the Soviet Union (1941–1948) . Temmen, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-336-1
- Stefan Lehr: An almost forgotten 'Eastern insert'. German archivists in the Generalgouvernement and in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Writings of the Federal Archives 68), Düsseldorf 2007.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winter, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, archivist and first director of the Federal Archives |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuruppin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th June 1961 |
| Place of death | Koblenz |