Hartmut Harnisch

Hartmut Harnisch (born January 1, 1934 in Bernburg ) is a German archivist and historian .

Life

Harnisch completed his studies in history , geography and archival science at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald and the Humboldt University in Berlin with a degree in geography and archivist . From 1959 to 1973 he worked as an archivist at the State Archives in Potsdam . The doctorate took place in 1964 with a thesis on the subject of the Boitzenburg rule. Investigations into the development of manor economy and manor from 14.-18. Century and the economic structure of rural areas of the Mark Brandenburg in late feudalism ; Reviewers were Gerhard Heitz and Rudolf Berthold . In 1973 he moved to the Institute for Economic History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR as a research manager . He completed his habilitation ( PhD B ) in December 1978 at the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock with the thesis Capitalist Agrarian Reform and Industrial Revolution. Agricultural historical studies of the connections between capitalist agricultural reforms and the development of the internal market as a prerequisite for the industrial revolution ; Reviewers were again Heitz and Berthold, as well as Volker Klemm . On December 1, 1991, he was appointed to the chair for the history of Prussia at the Humboldt University, where he held his inaugural lecture as a full professor at the Philosophical Faculty I on June 16, 1992. Two years before reaching retirement age, Harnisch retired in March 1997 at the age of 63.

Fonts (selection)

• The Boitzenburg rule. Studies on the development of the socio-economic structure of rural areas in the Mark Brandenburg from the 14th to the 19th century . Weimar 1968.
• Peasants - feudal nobility - urban bourgeoisie. Investigations into the connections between feudal rent, peasant and manorial, commodity production and the commodity-money relationship in the Magdeburg Börde and the north-eastern Harz foreland. Weimar 1980.
• Capitalist agrarian reform and industrial revolution. Agricultural historical research on East Elbe Prussia between late feudalism and the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848/49. With special consideration of the province of Brandenburg. Weimar 1984.

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 263.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hartmut Harnisch in the catalog of the German National Library