Hans Nirrnheim

Nirrnheim family graveyard, Ohlsdorf cemetery (with pillow stone for father Fritz Louis Nirrnstein )

Hans Nirrnheim (born July 29, 1865 in Hamburg-St. Georg , † July 31, 1945 in Hamburg ) was a German archivist and historian .

Live and act

After attending the higher middle school of his father Fritz Louis Nirrnheim (1830–1906) and the learned school of the Johanneum , he studied from 1886 classical philology, history and literature in Bonn , Berlin and Strasbourg . In Strasbourg he received his doctorate on March 1, 1890 with Paul Scheffer-Boichorst with a thesis on Hamburg and East Frisia in the 15th century and then passed the state examination there.

His activity as a teacher at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg was short-lived; as early as the fall of 1892 he began as a volunteer at the Hamburg State Archives and three months later became a paid research assistant. In 1901 he married Henny Hugo; the almost 25-year marriage remained childless. In 1919 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the title of professor, in 1920 he was appointed archivist and in 1922 senior archivist. After his predecessor Anton Hagedorn retired , he headed the State Archives from 1924 and was appointed Director of the State Archives at the beginning of 1926. After the Senate, in deviation from the statutory provisions, repeatedly extended Nirrnheim's term of office beyond the age of 65, he retired on May 15, 1933.

Nirrnheim achieved particular importance for research on the history of Hamburg and the Hanseatic League through the publication of historical sources (see works). In addition, he wrote scientific essays, summaries, representations and life pictures, which appeared mainly in the publication series of the Association for Hamburg History .

From 1890 he worked in the Association for Hamburg History , from 1911 as a member of the board, from 1912 to 1937 as first chairman and then again from 1940 to 1945 as a representative of his successor, who was drafted into military service. From 1898 to 1908 he was editor of the notices of the Association for Hamburg History and from 1908 until his death head of the editorial committee of the association magazine. Nirrnheim had been a member of the board of the Hanseatic History Association since 1932.

Hans Nirrnheim was buried in the family grave of the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AA 17 (south-west of the north pond ).

Fonts

• Hamburg and East Frisia in the first half of the 15th century. A contribution to the Hanseatic-Frisian history. Meißner, Hamburg 1890, (at the same time: Strasbourg, university, dissertation, 1890), digitized version .
• The action book Vickos von Geldersen. Voss, Hamburg et al. 1895, digitized .
• A look at Hamburg's history. In: Festschrift for the 9th German Gymnastics Festival in Hamburg July 23-27, 1898. Publishing house and printing company Aktien-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 1898, pp. 52–70.
• Hinrich Murmester. A Hamburg mayor in the Hanseatic heyday (= Pentecost papers of the Hanseatic History Association. Issue 4, ISSN  0932-6049 ). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, digitized .
• The Hamburg pound customs book from 1369 (= publications from the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Vol. 1, ISSN  0436-6638 ). Voss, Hamburg 1910.
• The Hamburg Pound and Werkzollbuch from 1399 and 1400 (= publications from the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Vol. 2). Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1930.
• Combining invoices from the city of Hamburg. 1350-1400. Supplements and registers to volume 1 (= combing invoices of the city of Hamburg. 1350–1562. Vol. 8). Christians, Hamburg 1939.
• Hamburg document book. Volume 3: Register for Volume 2. With foreword, addendum and corrections. Perthes, Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1953, (from the estate).

literature

• Hamburg historical contributions. Hans Nirrnheim for his 70th birthday on July 29, 1935. Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1935.
• Heinrich Reincke : Hans Nirrnheim (1865 to 1945). An obituary, spoken on August 4, 1947 in the Association for Hamburg History. In: Heinrich Reincke: Research and sketches on the history of Hamburg (= publications from the state archive of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Vol. 3). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1951, pp. 277-300.
• Heinrich Reincke, Kurt Detlev Möller , Erich von Lehe : Hans Nirrnheim (1865–1945). Three speeches in memory of him. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . Vol. 40, 1949, pp. IX-XVI, digitized .

Remarks

1. ↑ Celebrity Graves