Gerd Steinwascher

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Gerd Steinwascher (born August 1, 1953 in Engelskirchen ) is a German historian and archivist .

Gerd Steinwascher studied history and political science at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1972 to 1977 . In 1977 he passed the state examination. From 1977 to 1981 he was a research assistant in Marburg in the DFG project The Origin of European Nations in the Middle Ages . He received his doctorate in 1981 in Marburg with a thesis on the Cistercian town courts in Cologne, supervised by Reinhard Schneider . From 1981 to 1983 he was an archive trainee for the state of Lower Saxony. From 1983 to 1989 he was archivist / archivist at the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg , then from 1989 to 2002 archivist / archivist at the Osnabrück State Archives . From 2002 to October 2018 he was chief archive director at the Lower Saxony State Archive - Oldenburg location . In 2005 he received the cultural promotion award of the Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker Land eV In 2007 he was appointed honorary professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

His main research interests are the history of Lower Saxony , especially Oldenburg , Osnabrück and Schaumburg . In 2006 Steinwascher published a history of the city of Osnabrück. The published volume is divided into 11 chapters. Ten authors describe the history from the first traces of settlement to the present day. The last comprehensive account of Osnabrück came from Ludwig Hoffmeyer . The sixth edition of Hoffmeyer's work was published in 1995, but dates back to 1918. In 2011 Steinwascher presented an authoritative overview of the Oldenburg family . Steinwascher is a member of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (since 1986, deputy chairman since 2016) and the historical commission for Westphalia (full member from 1994 to 2006, corresponding member since 2006). From 1992 to 2002 he was chairman of the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück and in this function published the Osnabrücker Mitteilungen from 1992 to 2001 . From 2007 to 2018 he was editor-in-chief for the history section of the Oldenburg yearbook. Together with Dietmar von Reeken , he has been the head of the Working Group on the State and Regional History of the Oldenburg Landscape since 2013 .

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications was published in: Dagmar Freist with the participation of Johannes Birk and Wolfgang Henninger (eds.): ArchivGeschichten. Festschrift for Gerd Steinwascher. Kröner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-520-91101-8 , pp. 273-288.

Monographs

  • The Oldenburg. The history of a European dynasty (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 703). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021061-5 (2nd, unchanged edition, ibid 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022444-5 ).
  • Osnabrück and the Peace of Westphalia. The history of the negotiating city 1641–1650 (= Osnabrück historical sources and research. Vol. 42). Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-9806564-1-1 .
  • War, peace, tolerance. Sources on the Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia from the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück (= writings on the cultural history of the Osnabrück region. Vol. 7). Osnabrück district, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-88368-286-1 .
  • Gestapo Osnabrück reports ... Police and government reports from the Osnabrück administrative district from 1933 to 1936 (= Osnabrück historical sources and research. Vol. 36). Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1995, ISBN 3-9803412-3-2 .
  • with Matthias Seeliger: Bückeburg (= photographed contemporary history. ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0714-X .
  • Rinteln (= photographed contemporary history. ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-0768-9 .
  • Persecution of Jews in Schaumburg 1933–1945. Publi Consult Verlag, Bückeburg 1988, ISBN 3-927435-00-7 .
  • The Cistercian city courtyards in Cologne (= annual gift of the Altenberger Dom Association. 1981, ZDB -ID 219025-4 ). Altenberger Dom-Verein, Bergisch Gladbach 1981 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1981).

Editorships

  • with Sabine Graf, Regina Rößner: Archive and State History. Festschrift for Christine van den Heuvel. Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3374-1 .
  • Russia's view of northwest Germany. Political-dynastic relations from the 16th to the early 20th century as reflected in documents from the Lower Saxony State Archives (= publications of the Lower Saxony State Archives. Vol. 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8353-3354-2 .
  • with Christine van den Heuvel and Brage bei der Wieden: History of Lower Saxony in 111 documents. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 3-8353-1960-4 .
  • Aristocratic rule and mansions in northwest Germany in the Middle Ages. Bürger Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Edewecht 2016, ISBN 3-9817964-0-3 .
  • History of Lower Saxony. Volume 5: From the Weimar Republic to reunification (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 36, 5). Hahn, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-7752-5910-1 .
  • History of the city of Osnabrück. Meinders and Elstermann, Belm near Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 3-88926-007-1 ( review )
  • History of the city of Aschendorf. City of Papenburg, Papenburg 1992, ISBN 3-925742-03-4 .
  • with Karl Georg Kaster: 450 years of the Reformation in Osnabrück. VDMIÆ. God's word remains in eternity (= Osnabrück cultural monuments. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück. Vol. 6). Rasch, Bramsche 1993, ISBN 3-922469-78-7 .

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. 44th edition, 2010/2011, ISSN  0172-911X , p 1167 f.
  • Dagmar Freist with the participation of Johannes Birk and Wolfgang Henninger (eds.): Archive stories. Festschrift for Gerd Steinwascher. Kröner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-520-91101-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Inken Schmidt-Voges in: Journal for historical research 40 (2013), pp. 291–293.
personal data
SURNAME Steinwascher, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Engelskirchen