Hans Koeppen (historian)

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Hans Koeppen

Hans Koeppen (born August 22, 1913 in Mayen , † June 13, 1977 in Kassel ) was a German historian and archivist. From 1962 he had been head of the Göttingen State Archive Camp.

Life

Hans Koeppen spent his childhood and school days in Stralsund , the hometown of his parents. After graduating from high school and one semester of geodesy (his father's field of study) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , he studied history , German and Latin at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and above all at the University of Greifswald . Greifswald who supervised medievalist Adolf Hofmeister his dissertation on the medieval history of Stralsund, which he in 1938 Dr. phil. received his doctorate . Koeppen then took part in the Prussian State Archives in Stettin in preparation for the Pomeranian document book . In 1939/41 he took part in the last course of the Prussian Institute for Archival Science in Berlin-Dahlem.

The Second World War and the Soviet imprisonment of war interrupted Koeppen's professional and scientific development until 1950. Koeppen went to Lower Saxony . After an initial archival assignment at Michaeliskloster Lüneburg , he was employed at the Wolfenbüttel State Archives in 1950 , and since 1952 as State Archives Assessor. That year he was faced with the question of whether he should keep the orphaned city archive of Lüneburg or go to the state archive warehouse in Goslar . The state of Lower Saxony had just taken over this agency from the British military government and was keeping archival holdings that had come to the later British occupation zone as a result of the war-related relocation . These were primarily archival materials from the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg with the medieval holdings of the Teutonic Order , but also those from Reval , Schwerin and Zerbst . These exerted the greater attraction on Koeppen, so that he was transferred to Goslar, where Kurt Forstreuter had meanwhile become director. In 1953 he moved the holdings to the Göttingen State Archive Camp .

With the order and cataloging work that started now, Koeppen devoted himself above all to the Prussian document book (vol. 3, part 2: 1342–1345, and vol. 4: 1346–1351) as well as the early modern inventory of the budget ministry , ie the files in the upper council chamber or the government of the Duchy of Prussia from 1525–1804. After Forstreuter's retirement, he followed him as archive director in 1962 and continued this work until he was seriously ill in September 1976. Integrated into the work programs of the Lower Saxony archive administration, he was committed to the backup filming of the holdings entrusted to him and operated a microfilm exchange with the general director of the Polish State Archives.

From 1965 to 1974 he was chairman of the historical commission for East and West Prussian state research . In addition, he was a member of the board of the Historical Commission for Pomerania until his death .

Works

  • Leading Stralsund council families from the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 16th century. Greifswald treatises on the history of the Middle Ages, Vol. 10. Bamberg publishing house, Greifswald 1938. (Dissertation)
  • Prussian document book . Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, 1958–1973
  • The archive of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, its holdings and its scientific significance . Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz 4 (1966), pp. 172–187.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus on his 500th birthday . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 1973.
  • The reports of the General Procurators of the Teutonic Order to the Curia , 1976
  • The “Adelsarchiv” of the Königsberg State Archives (archive holdings of Prussian cultural property) in the State Archive Camp in Göttingen, in: Preußenland 12 (1974), pp. 33–62; Ndr. In: Old Prussian Gender Studies NF Vol. 8 (1975), pp. 279-301.

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SURNAME Koeppen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1977
Place of death kassel