Gerhart Enders

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Hans Wolfgang Gerhart Enders (born October 17, 1924 in Dresden , † March 18, 1972 in Wilhelmshorst ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Gerhart Enders began an apprenticeship as a machine fitter before attending secondary school in Frankenberg from May 1939 . After his military service and his return from captivity, he passed his Abitur in 1946 and taught as a new teacher at this school the following year .

In the summer semester of 1947, he began studying history , German , philosophy and education at the University of Jena . After 4 semesters he switched to the University of Halle to study economic history with Hans Haussherr . In the summer of 1951, he passed his state examination and was in October with a thesis on the economic equipment of the University of Wittenberg 1502-1547. The emergence of the princely university for Dr. phil. PhD. Between 1951 and 1953 he was an aspirant at the Institute for Archival Science in Potsdam, where he passed the state examination as a scientific archivist.

From October 1953 to May 1970 he worked as an archivist in the German Central Archives , and since 1954 as a department head and deputy director. In addition, he held a teaching position in the field of archival science at the Humboldt University in Berlin and taught at the technical college for archives in Potsdam. He was significantly involved in the elaboration of the “Rules and Regulations for the State Archives of the German Democratic Republic” (OVG) and created a standard work for archival work that is recognized in East and West Germany with his “Archive Management Teaching”.

In 1970 he was forced to take early retirement on charges of pro-fascist propaganda.

His estate is in the Berlin Federal Archives.

He was the husband of Lieselott Enders .

Publications (selection)

  • with Karl Höhnel: Structure and development of the archives of the German Democratic Republic . Publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior, Berlin-Wilhelmsruh 1959.
  • Archive administration teaching . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962

literature

  • Gerald Wiemers : On Gerhart Enders' life . In: Archivverwaltungslehre Nachdr. Der 3rd, durchges. Ed., Leipzig 2004, pp. XII – XVI.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Archive Reports 5/1990, p. 199.