Hans-Walter Klewitz

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Hans-Walter Klewitz (born March 14, 1907 in Erfurt , † March 15, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German medieval historian.

From 1925 Hans-Walter Klewitz studied history, German and Russian at the universities of Bonn , Heidelberg and Göttingen . In 1928 Klewitz received his doctorate in Göttingen under Karl Brandi with the thesis The history of ministeriality in Alsace until the end of the interregnum and completed his studies in 1930 with a state examination. From 1930 to 1934 he worked for Paul Fridolin Kehr at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome . He married in the summer of 1932. He completed his habilitation in 1935 in Göttingen with the work Petrus Diaconus and the Montecassineser Klosterchronik des Leo von Ostia . Klewitz was appointed private lecturer in 1936. In December 1936 he was a member of the SA (with the rank of Rottenführer and Blockwarts), in autumn 1937 he also joined the NSDAP , and in 1942 at the latest he was also a member of the NSKK . From January 1940 he was an adjunct professor and from autumn 1942 a full professor of medieval history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . On March 1, 1943, he was called up for military service in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler of the Waffen SS . Just two weeks after being drafted, he suddenly died in the Waffen-SS training camp in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

He dealt with the constitutional history of the empire in the Middle Ages, Italian church history , papal history and diplomacy . In his estate there were excerpts and sketches for a biography of Friedrich Barbarossa . More recent research has shown that during his two-year period in Freiburg, Klewitz provided impulses for the most important projects of the post-war period.

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  • Catalog raisonné in: The world as history. Vol. 9 (1943), p. 99 f.
  • Hans-Walter Klewitz: Selected essays on the church and intellectual history of the Middle Ages. With an introduction by Gerd Tellenbach. Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1971.

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  1. ^ Hans-Walter Klewitz: Petrus Diaconus and the Montecassineser monastery chronicle of Leo von Ostia. In: Archive for Document Research, Vol. 14 (1936), pp. 414–453.
  2. ^ Sabine Krüger:  Klewitz, Hans-Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 59 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Andre Gutmann: Between Barbarossa, Gau Research and Wehrmacht Lectures - Hans-Walter Klewitz as a representative of Freiburg Medieval Studies 1940–1943. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Vol. 161 (2013), pp. 377-426, here: p. 396.
  4. ↑ Andre Gutmann: Between Barbarossa, Gau Research and Wehrmacht Lectures - Hans-Walter Klewitz as a representative of Freiburg Medieval Studies 1940–1943. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Vol. 161 (2013), pp. 377-426, here: pp. 419-421.
  5. ↑ Andre Gutmann: Between Barbarossa, Gau Research and Wehrmacht Lectures - Hans-Walter Klewitz as a representative of Freiburg Medieval Studies 1940–1943. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Vol. 161 (2013), pp. 377-426, here: p. 378; Jürgen Dendorfer : Land and rule. The “New Constitutional History” and its effects on the national history in southern Germany. In: Christina Mochty-Weltin, Roman Zehetmayer (Ed.): Nobility and Constitution in the High and Late Medieval Empire. The lectures of the conference in memory of Maximilian Weltin (February 23 and 24, 2017). St. Pölten 2018, 30–55, here: p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Klewitz, Hans-Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klewitz, Hans-Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1943
Place of death Berlin