Gerhard Schmidt (historian)

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Gerhard Schmidt (born May 16, 1920 in Darmstadt ; † June 6, 2001 ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Gerhard Schmidt was born in Hesse and moved with his parents to the Saxon state capital Dresden in 1926 . There he attended the Epiphany School. From 1940, Gerhard Schmidt studied history, German and Latin at the University of Leipzig . After a short time he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and had to take part in the Second World War. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he returned to Dresden.

In 1946 Gerhard Schmidt continued his interrupted studies in Leipzig, which he graduated in 1950. In the following year he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1952, Gerhard Schmidt was employed as a research assistant at the Saxon State Main Archive in Dresden, which later became the Main State Archive in Dresden . He made up for the lack of training for the higher archival service until 1955 at the Institute for Archival Science in Potsdam . In the following 20 years, Gerhard Schmidt was the state archivist and department head in Dresden, responsible for the holdings from 1831 onwards. During this time he presented two basic monographs: 1966 The state reform in Saxony in the first half of the 19th century (= series of publications of the Dresden State Archives; 7) and 1969 reform efforts in Saxony in the first half of the 19th century (= sources and research on Saxon history; 7).

Due to political pressure, he left the archive in Dresden and went to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1975, where he worked for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . The focus of his activity was the recording of the documents of Emperor Karl IV under the direction of Eckhard Müller-Mertens . He also worked in the Working Group for Saxon Church History. From this activity went u. a. the illustrated text books Dresden and its churches and The churches in Saxon Switzerland .

His son Michael Schmidt (* 1963) also became a historian.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Personal estate of Gerhard Schmidt. In: sachsen.de/archiv. Accessed December 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Information on the authors and other publications
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2001