Hans-Joachim Bartmuss

Hans-Joachim Bartmuß (born July 19, 1929 in Großkorbetha ) is a German historian in the field of medieval and modern history.

Hans-Joachim Bartmuß passed his Abitur in 1948 and then began training as a new teacher. In 1949 he became a primary school teacher in Merseburg . In 1950 he took his first teacher examination and began studying history at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , which he graduated in 1954 as a historian. He then became a research assistant and in 1961 senior assistant at the Institute for German History at the University of Halle. Since 1959 Bartmuß had a teaching position on the history of the Middle Ages and was authorized to give lectures. In 1962 Leo Stern and Erich Neuss did his doctorate with a thesis on the topic: On the emergence of the early feudal German state. A critical examination of the most important theses of bourgeois German mediaevistics about the causes and driving forces in the development of the early feudal German state and the politics of the first two kings from the Saxon ruling house.

Since 1964 Bartmuß has held a lectureship for German history of the Middle Ages in Halle and was officially appointed lecturer in 1968. From 1968 to 1971 he was also head of the history department, from 1971 to 1974 deputy director for education and training and from 1976 to 1979 deputy director for research at the history / civics section . In 1971 he received his PhD B with work on problems of the development of feudalism and the role of the emerging feudal class in Germany. In the following year Bartmuss became a full professor of medieval history. From 1979 to 1990 he was director of his section.

In addition to the history of the Middle Ages, where Bartmuß was primarily concerned with the development of the feudal society, he also researched Nicolaus Copernicus , Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and the history of Saxony-Anhalt. Hans-Joachim Bartmuß is Honorary President of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society .

Fonts

• German History (Ed., 3 volumes), DVW, Berlin 1965–1968
• The birth of the first German state. A contribution to the discussion of German historical studies about the transition from the East Franconian to the medieval German Empire , DVW, Berlin 1966 (series of publications by the Institute for German History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, vol. 2)
• with Heinz Kathe : A short history of Saxony-Anhalt. From the beginning to the present. mdv, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-354-00785-0 .
• Romanesque Road. Art and culture guide Saxony-Anhalt , Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-361-00401-2
• with Eberhard Kunze & Josef Ulfkotte: "Turnvater Jahn" and his patriotic environment. Letters and Documents 1806-1812 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2008
• with Josef Ulfkotte: After the gymnastics ban. "Gymnastics father" Jahn between 1819 and 1852 . Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 2011

literature

• Hans-Joachim Bartmuß is 60 years old . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , 37, 1989, p. 635.
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 117-118.
• Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar (entry: Bartmuß, Hans-Joachim)