Heinrich Büttner (historian)

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Heinrich Büttner (born November 18, 1908 in Mainz , † October 15, 1970 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German historian and archivist .

The son of a rector passed his Abitur in Mainz and studied classical philology and history at the universities of Freiburg i. Br. And casting . Since 1927 he was a member of the Hohenstaufen Catholic Student Union in Freiburg. In 1931 he received his doctorate in Giessen with a papyrus edition. After the state examination, he was trained for archival services at the Institute for Archive Science in Berlin , where he passed the archive examination in 1933. In 1933 he worked for Albert Brackmann at the Göttingen Papsturkundenwerk. He had been a member of the SA since 1933, although he only made it to Obersturmmann. In 1935 Büttner went to work as an assistant at the Alemannic Institute at the University of Freiburg, headed by Theodor Mayer . A year later, he completed his habilitation there on the history of the Bamberg diocese during the 11th and 12th centuries.

From 1938 to 1939 he was the managing director of Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Although he joined the NSDAP in 1937 , he was denied a lectureship and thus a university career. From 1939 to 1940 he was an archivist at the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt . In Nancy and Paris from 1940 to 1942 he worked for the Archive Protection Commission, whose task it was to bring archival material of German provenance from France to Germany. Büttner did military service from 1942 to 1945. He taught at the University of Mainz from 1946 to 1949 as an associate professor for Middle and Modern History. From 1949 to 1962 he was the successor of Edmund E. Stengel full professor at the University of Marburg , in 1962 he followed a call to the University of Cologne . He taught there until 1970. His students included u. a. Hanna Vollrath .

Büttner's main research interests were the history of the early and high Middle Ages, the history of the state, especially of the central and southwestern Alpine region and the Upper and Middle Rhine region, and the history of European urbanism in the early and high Middle Ages. He made a significant contribution to the history of Alsace from the time of the conquest to the death of Otto III. in front. But Büttner also wrote numerous papers that did not concern his main research interests, for example on the rise of Pippin, the western policy of Henry I and his castle order, on the imperial coronation of Otto I and the battle of Hungary in 955. He was co-editor of the Archives for Diplomatics and for a time also the journal of church history . Büttner was a founding member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History .

Fonts (selection)

  • History of Alsace. Edited by Traute Endemann, Sigmaringen 1991.
  • Middle Rhine and Hesse. Post-graduate studies. Edited by Alois Gerlich , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05178-3 .
  • On the early medieval history of the empire on the Rhine, Main and Neckar. Edited and introduced by Alois Gerlich, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-534-06083-0 .
  • Swabia and Switzerland in the early and high Middle Ages. Collected Essays. Edited by Hans Patze , Sigmaringen 1972, ISBN 3-7995-6615-5 .
  • together with Iso Müller: Early Christianity in the Swiss Alps. Einsiedeln u. a. 1967.
  • Henry I. Southwest and West Policy. Constance 1964.
  • Staufer and Zähringer in the political interplay of forces between Lake Constance and Lake Geneva during the 12th century. Zurich 1961.
  • Early medieval Christianity and the Frankish state between the Upper Rhine and the Alps. Darmstadt 1961.
  • together with Marcel Beck : The dioceses of Würzburg and Bamberg in their political and economic importance for the history of the German East. Berlin 1937.
  • Greek private letters (P. bibl. Univ. Giss. 18-33) (= messages from the papyrus collection of the Giessen university library . Vol. 3) Töpelmann, Giessen 1931 (= at the same time: Giessen, university, dissertation, 1931).

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SURNAME Büttner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1970
Place of death bad Godesberg