Hans Booms

Hans Booms (center), 1982 with Helmut Schmidt and Jürgen Schmude

Johannes (Hans) Heinrich Booms (born June 22, 1924 in Haldern ; † April 16, 2007 in Lahnstein ) was a German archivist . From 1972 until his retirement in 1989 he was President of the Federal Archives .

Life

Booms served in the Navy during World War II. After the end of the war he made up his Abitur and began to study history. In 1951 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne Dr. phil. with a work on The German Conservative Party supervised by Theodor Schieder . Prussian character, conception of the Reich, concept of nationality and initially worked on the documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe. From 1955 he was an archive trainee at the newly founded Federal Archives in Koblenz and at the Marburg Archive School . After he had completed his training for the higher archival service, he was taken over by the Federal Archives as archival assessor in autumn 1957. Since 1970 he has also been an honorary professor at the University of Cologne.

Booms was elected Vice President of the International Archives Council in 1980 and hosted the International Archives Congress in Bonn in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he served as President of the International Archives Council.

Honors

1980: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
1989: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

Edited with Marian Wojciechowski: Germans and Poles in the Revolution 1848–1849. Documents from German and Polish archives. Arranged by Heinz Boberach , Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1991.
The German Conservative Party. Prussian character, conception of the empire, concept of nationality. Droste, Düsseldorf 1954.

literature

Friedrich P. Kahlenberg (Ed.): From the work of the archives. Contributions to archives, source studies and history. Festschrift for Hans Booms , Boldt, Boppard 1989, ISBN 3-7646-1892-2 (pp. 963–966: Bibliography Hans Booms).
Hartmut Weber : Hans Booms † , in: Der Archivar , vol. 60, 2007, issue 3, p. 277 ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Booms in the catalog of the German National Library
Hans Booms in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ Jens Murken: The Federal Archives mourn Prof. Dr. Hans Booms . In: Archive News . Source: Federal Archives, press release, April 30, 2007. Accessed September 12, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Booms, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Booms, Johannes Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haldern
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 2007
Place of death	Lahnstein

[1] Jens Murken: The Federal Archives mourn Prof. Dr. Hans Booms . In: Archive News . Source: Federal Archives, press release, April 30, 2007. Accessed September 12, 2014.