Hans Schubert (archivist)

Hans Rudolf Theodor Schubert (born August 22, 1884 in Militsch , Lower Silesia, † July 9, 1961 in Eastbourne , England) was a Prussian state archivist and historian .

Life

Hans Schubert was the first child of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Berthold Schubert (1852–1932), who came from Brieg , and his wife Marie, b. Rocholl was born in Militsch, Lower Silesia, where his father was ordained. His maternal grandfather was the Lutheran theologian and historical philosopher Rudolf Rocholl , his uncle the battle painter Theodor Rocholl .

Hans Schubert grew up in Hanover from 1888 and in Düsseldorf from 1891 , where his father served as pastor. From 1894 to 1903 he attended the municipal high school in Düsseldorf. He studied history and German philology from 1903 to 1907 in Heidelberg , Berlin , Erlangen and Marburg . In 1907 he worked for the "Commission for the Issuance of the Older Papal Documents" in Marburg, Munich and Vienna and received his doctorate on February 20, 1908 at the University of Marburg with the thesis "A Liège scripted province proven on documents of the eleventh and twelfth centuries" on a palaeographic specialty the diplomacy to Dr. phil.

Hans Schubert began his career as archivist from 1908 to 1914 at the State Archives in Düsseldorf . In 1911, at the suggestion of the castle owner at the time, Hermann von Krüger, he presented the first scientific work on the history of Eller Castle, which was newly incorporated into Düsseldorf . Then he was State Archives Councilor in Koblenz and then in Berlin . During this time he published works on the history of the Prussian government district of Koblenz and the medieval city history of Mülheim an der Ruhr . From 1932 to 1933 he worked as the state archive director in Wiesbaden and from 1933 to 1936 at the state archive in Osnabrück . Since then, Schubert has focused his publications on the history of the iron industry. Due to the law to restore the civil service , he was demoted from the director of the state archives to the archivist and in 1936, at the age of 52, retired. The reason for this is not yet known; as a rule, this law was applied by the National Socialists to politically unpopular officials or to those with Jewish ancestors or wives.

Hans Schubert emigrated to Great Britain , where he appeared as HR Schubert or anglicised as John Rudolph Theodore Schubert. From 1940 to 1947 he was a lecturer at Reading University . He spent the last years of his life in Epsom Downs near Epsom, southwest of London. He was married to Lotty Violet Schubert (* 1900; † 2000 in Gravesend ).

Works

• A Liège writing province evidenced by documents from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Inaugural dissertation. Marburg 1908.
• House Eller near Düsseldorf. History of a noble seat in the Lower Rhine region. Düsseldorf 1911.
• The Prussian government in Koblenz. Their development and work 1816–1918. Bonn 1925.
• Documents and explanations on the history of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr (796–1508). Edited by Hans Schubert on behalf of the Mülheim History Association. Schroeder, Bonn 1926, DNB 362549834 .
• History of the Nassau iron industry from the beginning to the time of the Thirty Years War. Using preliminary work by † Professor Dr. phil. Dr. Ing.Ludwig Beck . Marburg 1937.
• The ironworks in the area of ​​the middle Lahn and the Vogelsberg up to the beginning of the 19th century with special consideration of the ironworks operated by the Buderus family. In: From the origin and development of the Buderus ' sche Eisenwerke Wetzlar. I. Volume. Munich 1938.
• History of the British Iron and Steel Industry from c. 450 BC to AD 1775. London 1957.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 1925, 1926, 1928/29, 1931 and 1935.
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 552.
• The curriculum vitae of the young Hans Schubert in the above Dissertation, 1908.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Schubert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Schubert's estate in the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Publications by Hans Schubert in the Opac der Regesta Imperii