Gertrud Mortensen
Gertrud Mortensen (born July 24, 1892 in Rucken, parish Lasdehnen (Pillkallen district) as Gertrud Heinrich ; † February 8, 1992 in Göttingen ) was a German historian.
Life
Gertrud Mortensen was born in Rucken as the daughter of the landowner Paul Hermann Heinrich and his wife Martha (née Buske). She grew up in her grandparents house in Tilsit , where she also learned Lithuanian . At the high school there, she passed the Abitur. After her first studies in Leipzig , she attended lectures by Albert Brackmann and Georg Gerullis at the Albertus University in Königsberg . There she received her doctorate in 1921. The following year she married the geographer Hans Mortensen. She followed him to Marburg , Riga , Freiburg and Göttingen, where he taught from 1935. She was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research and the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council .
plant
In her doctorate she dealt with the nationalities and settlement conditions in Prussian Lithuania . This was followed by a two-volume joint work (1937/38) with her husband on the history of the settlement in northeastern East Prussia up to the 17th century. A third volume did not appear because the authors, in view of the Memel conflict, did not consider it politically opportune to emphasize the Lithuanian population. However, they were neither willing to adapt their research results to the zeitgeist nor to question the same human and self-determination rights for Germans and Lithuanians. From 1959 she and her husband, after his death with Reinhard Wenskus and later with Helmut Jäger , published the Atlas Eastern Central Europe . For her work, she always used materials from Königsberg, which was stored in Göttingen after the Second World War and was looked after as archivist by her former fellow student from the time in Könisgberg, Kurt Forstreuter .
literature
- Bernhart Jähnig : Gertrud Mortensen. In: Prussia. Reports from the historical commission for East and West Prussian regional research and from the archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. 31 (1993), pp. 26-28.
- Bernhart Jähnig : Gertrud Mortensen. In: Altpreußische Biographie, Vol. 5, Lfg. 3, Marburg / Lahn 2015. pp. 2162–2163. ISBN 978-3-7708-1301-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrud Mortensen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Gertrud Mortensen in the digital portrait archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhart Jähnig: Gertrud Mortensen. In: Preußenland 31 (1993), p. 27.
- ^ Ingo Haar: Historians in National Socialism. German history and the "Volkstumskampf" in the east, Göttingen ²2002, p. 303.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mortensen, Gertrud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rucken, Parish Lasdehnen (Pillkallen district) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1992 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |