Gerhard Günther (historian)

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Gerhard Günther (born February 22, 1930 in Greiz ) is a German lawyer , archivist and historian .

Life

Günther comes from the Reussian Vogtland . After attending school, he studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . 1956/57 he received his doctorate with the thesis The beginning of the reception of the medieval Roman civil law in Thuringia until the mid-14th century to Dr. jur. In 1959 he was appointed director of the Mühlhausen City Archives. He also studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin Archival Science and received his doctorate in 1973 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with the thesis studies the history of the Reformation and the Peasants' War to Dr. phil.

In issue 2/1990, Gerhard Günther, as director of the Mühlhausen city archive and head of the Mühlhausen district archive, addressed the scientific public with a critical comment on the archival system in the GDR.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Mühlhausen in Thuringia. 1200 years of history of the Thomas-Müntzer-Stadt , Leipzig, 1975.
  • Mulhouse. The town hall , Leipzig, 1975.
  • Comments on the subject of “Thomas Müntzer and Heinrich Pfeiffer in Mühlhausen” In: Gerhard Heitz (Ed.), The farmer in the class struggle. Studies on the history of the German peasant war and the peasant class struggles in late feudalism, Berlin a. a. 1975, pp. 157-182.
  • Gerhard Günther: On the territorial development of the Mühlhausen district . In: Mühlhauser contributions . Issue 2, 1979, ZDB -ID 1125623-0 , p. 64-70, 127-128 .
  • with Winfried Korf : Mühlhausen. Thomas-Müntzer-Stadt (= city ​​books of art history ). VEB E. A. Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00018-9 ; 2nd edition Ibid 1989, ISBN 3-363-00018-9 .
  • Müntzer sources in the Mühlhausen city archive . In: Archivmitteilungen 39 (1989), pp. 204-206.
  • Arbitrariness of the city of Heiligenstadt from the year 1335. City rights in the Middle Ages , Duderstadt, 1997.
  • From cartwheels to automobiles , Bad Langensalza, 2004.
  • Roman law in Thuringia. Its application in legal life until 1350 , Bad Langensalza, 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dissertation was published in 2006 by the Rockstuhl publishing house in Bad Frankenhausen under the title Roman Law in Thuringia. Its application in legal life until 1350 .
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz