Gert Kroeger

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Gert Kroeger (born March 5 . Jul / 18th March  1907 greg. In Riga , Governorate of Livonia , Imperial Russia , † 3. August 1986 in Eutin , Germany ) was a historian Baltic German origin.

Life

Gert Kroeger grew up in Riga; his parents were the doctor Emil Kroeger (1873–1936) and Mary, b. Erdmann (1880-1957); one brother was Erhard Kroeger . His great-great-uncle was Johann Eduard Erdmann , whose estate he later managed.

After attending school in Riga, Kroeger studied history from 1924 to 1929 in Dorpat , where he was a member of Livonia , then in Marburg and Tübingen with Johannes Haller and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Since 1929 he was in the school service. He taught at the Baltic School in Miedzyzdroje until 1945 and became the acting headmaster here towards the end of the Second World War . From 1947 to 1969 he worked as a teacher in Lübeck and dealt with historical topics relating to the Baltic States. Most recently he lived in Malente .

membership

Kroeger had been a full member of the Baltic Historical Commission since 1964 . From 1968 to 1975 he was a member of the board of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft .

Fonts (selection)

  • Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher and his struggle with the Order for rule over Riga . Phil. Diss. Tübingen 1930; also in the communications from Livonian history , vol. 24, no.3, 1930.
  • From the spirit of the Baltic school. In: Baltische Hefte , 2, 1955/56, pp. 22–34.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran regional church and the Greek Orthodox state church in the Baltic provinces 1840–1918 . In: Reinhard Wittram (ed.): Baltic Church History. Contributions to the history of missionary work and the Reformation, the Evangelical Lutheran regional churches and the popular church in the Baltic states. Göttingen 1956, pp. 177-206.
  • Three letters from Karl Ernst von Baers from St. Petersburg to Johann Eduard Erdmann in Halle. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 7, 1958, pp. 61–68.
  • The political way of thinking of the Livonian Hegelian Johann Eduard Erdmann (1805-1892) . In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 7, 1958, pp. 338–373.
  • Eduard Erdmann . In memory. In: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism , 1959, pp. 107–111.
  • Julius Eckardt's series of articles “For and Against the Alsace Project”. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 10, 1961, pp. 201–225.
  • On the situation of the Baltic Germans at the turn of the century. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 17, 1968, pp. 601–632.
  • The German clubs in Liv, Estonia and Courland 1905 / 06–1914. In: Yearbook of the Baltic Germans , Vol. 27, 1970, pp. 22-30.
  • The past and history. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 23, 1974, pp. 681-683.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Bitter : Church in the East. 35 (1992), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 67, fn. 37.
  2. ↑ Album Livonorum , ed. from the Philistine Union of Livonia. Lübeck 1972, No. 1398.
  3. ↑ Kroeger, Gert. In: Members of the Baltic Historical Commission. I. Honorary members and full members. Pp. 62-63. ( PDF )
  4. ^ Paul Kaegbein , Wilhelm Lenz : Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997. p. 105.
personal data
SURNAME Kroeger, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1986
Place of death Eutin , Germany