Hans Kiewning

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Hans Kiewning

Hans Johann Karl Kiewning (born August 20, 1864 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † July 13, 1939 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German archive and library director, historian, writer and painter.

Life

Hans Kiewning in the archive of Detmold Castle

His parents were the businessman Hermann Kiewning and Therese geb. Rousseau. Kiewning attended the Königsberg grammar school in the old town and studied philology at the University of Königsberg , where he received his doctorate in 1889. phil. PhD. From October 1, 1891 to December 31, 1894 he was a member of the Prussian Historical Institute at the Vatican in Rome . This was followed by an activity in the state archives of Berlin , Posen and Königsberg from 1895 to 1899 . On February 1, 1899, Kiewning received an appointment from Grafregent Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld as archivist to Detmold as head of the Princely House and Country Archives. In 1905 he was appointed secret archives councilor. Between 1917 and 1933 Kiewning was director of the Lippe State Archives in Detmold . In the years 1919–1924 he worked as a lecturer at the Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences in Detmold . From 1924 to 1933 he was the regional library director at the Lippische Landesbibliothek .

Kiewning was a member of the historical commission for Westphalia and chairman of the Detmold educational association. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Hermann Monument Foundation and founder of the magazine “Mitteilungen aus der Lippe history u. Regional studies ".

Hans Kiewning was married to Marie geb. Süpply. They had the sons Bernhard (1900-1918) and Hans Georg (1903-1933).

Awards / honors

  • 1905 Cross of Honor 2nd class of the Princely Lippe House Order for scientific and literary merit
  • 1915 Order of Leopold II class with crown
  • 1918 Princely Lippe War Merit Cross and Cross of Honor 2nd class with oak leaves of the Princely Lippe House Order
  • A street in Detmold is named after him

Publications (selection)

Bibliography by H. Sievert 1950: LB Detmold .

  • Duke Albrecht of Prussia and Margrave Johannes von Brandenburg share in the Prince League against Charles V part 1.1547-50 (dissertation, 1889)
  • Silk construction and industry in the Netzedistrikt from 1773 to 1805. 1896
  • The baptism certificate of Carl Philipp von Unruh. Critical remarks. Detmold 1902 LLB Detmold
  • The Foreign Policy of the County of Lippe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the Tilsit Peace. 1903 ( digitized version )
  • “By right!” A story from the time of absolutism. Roman (Bremen, 1911)
  • Lippe (Principality) dictionary of German constitutional and administrative law. Ed. M. Fleischmann (1913)
  • Princess Pauline zur Lippe 1769–1820 Detmold 1930
  • One hundred years of the Lippe constitution 1819–1919 1935
  • Pictures of life from Christian Gottlieb Clostermeier, Edler von Hoffmann, Ludwig Knoch, Princess Pauline zur Lippe, Johann von Molenbeck, Ernst von Valentini. In: People from the Lippe soil. Detmold 1936 LLB Detmold .
  • Lippe story. (Special publications of the Natural Science Association for the State of Lippe, Vol. 7) 1942 LLB Detmold .
  • A lookout tower on the Grotenburg. In: Vaterländische Blätter 1925 No. 15
  • The Horn Castle. In: Heimatblatt Rote Erde, 5th year 1926, issue 7
  • The Lippe State Archives in Detmold . In: Archivalische Zeitschrift (third part 9./10) 42/43 (1934), pp. 281–321 ( Internet Archive ).

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar , 4th year, 1931
  • Who is it , 10th edition, 1935
  • Alexandra Habermann, Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , 1985
  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth on Ordensmuseum.de (accessed on July 22, 2010)
  2. ↑ Archive holdings (PDF; 6 MB) German Historical Institute Rome
personal data
SURNAME Kiewning, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiewning, Hans Johann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archive and library director, historian, writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1939
Place of death Bad Reichenhall