Hans-Joachim Behr (archivist)

Hans-Joachim Behr (born January 23, 1930 in Lüneburg ) is a German archivist and historian. He was head of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives in Münster and is honorary professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . He published numerous writings, mostly on regional history topics.

Life

After completing secondary school, Hans-Joachim Behr worked as a farmer and obtained the title of engineering degree. After completing his Abitur, he studied history and German at the University of Göttingen and the University of Hamburg from 1957 , with Percy Ernst Schramm and Alfred Heuss , among others and Hermann Heimpel . He was in Hamburg in 1963 when Otto Brunner with a dissertation on the deposit lock policy of the city of Lüneburg in the 15th and 16th centuries Dr. phil. PhD. After receiving his doctorate, Behr was archivist at the Lower Saxony State Archives in Osnabrück from 1963 to 1974 and then archivist at the Münster State Archives . He was the head of this archive from 1979 until his retirement in 1995.

Behr is a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen and the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Between 1989 and 2005 he was also a member of the Historical Commission for Church Contemporary History in Westphalia. Between 1989 and 2000 he was also director of the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Department of Münster, 1985–1997 Vice Chairman of the Brauweiler District for Contemporary History and 1980–2005 co-editor of the Düsseldorfer Schriften. In 2001 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Fonts (selection)

• The City of Lüneburg's pawn lock policy in the 15th and 16th centuries . Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg 1964.
• Political class and landscape self-government. History of the Osnabrück landscape in the 19th century . Wenner, Osnabrück 1970.
• Georg von Schele (1771-1844). Statesman or doctrinal? Wenner, Osnabrück 1973.
• (Ed.): Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Osnabrück . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-35516-5 .
• (Ed.), With Jürgen Kloosterhuis : The holdings of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives Münster. Brief overview . North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives Münster, Münster 1984.
• (Ed.): Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia. Aspects of Westphalian-Rhenish ties then and now. Exhibition by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives in Münster . North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives Münster, Münster 1984.
• History in cards. Historical views from the Rhineland and Westphalia . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-590-34218-8 .
• (Ed.): The Arenbergers in Westphalia and Emsland (= The Arenbergers. History of a European Dynasty , edited by Franz-Josef Heyen , Vol. 2). State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz 1990.
• with Jürgen Kloosterhuis: Ludwig Freiherr Vincke. A Westphalian profile between reform and restoration in Prussia . North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives Münster, Münster 1994.
• Franz von Waldeck. Prince-Bishop of Münster and Osnabrück, administrator of Minden (1491–1553). His life in his time , 2 vols. Aschendorff, Münster 1996 and 1998.
• Count Franz von Waldeck (1491–1553). Three times ecclesiastical prince in Westphalia . Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Bad Arolsen 1999, ISBN 3-932468-01-5 .
• with Bernhard Brockmann and Nikolaus Konkenge: The Gogericht on the Desum. "Main court" of the Oldenburger Münsterland . Isensee, Oldenburg 2000.
• (Arrangement) Karl Freiherr von Müffling. Officer - cartographer - politician (1775-1851). Memoirs and smaller writings . Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-02803-7 .
• “Right must remain right”. The life of Freiherr Georg von Vincke (1811–1875) . Bonifatius, Paderborn 2009.
• (Ed.) The diaries of Ludwig Baron Vincke, 1789–1844 . Vol. 5, 8, 9, 11, Aschendorff, Münster 2009–2019. ISBN 3-402-15740-3
• (Ed.) The district of Osnabrück. Past and present, A. Fromm, Osnabrück 1971.

literature

• Farewell to the head of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives in Münster, Professor Dr. Hans-Joachim Behr. In: The archivist . Vol. 48 (1995), p. 298.
• Short biography. In: Westphalia. History, art and folklore books. Vol. 79 (2001). (Festschrift for the 75th birthday).
• Short biography. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Vol. 2: The former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia in the area of ​​today's districts of Hochsauerland, Olpe, Soest and Märkischer Kreis (19th and 20th centuries). Teilbd. 2, Münster 2012, p. 1159 f.
• Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar. Vol. 1, Munich 2007, p. 199.