Heinrich Laakmann (historian)

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Karl Heinrich Laakmann (born December 30, 1892 in Rauza , Livonia , † December 16, 1955 in Marburg ) was a German-Baltic historian .

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Heinrich Laakmann was born as the son of printer owner Carl Heinrich Leopold Laakmann (1844–1908) in Rauza (Rause) in Livonia; his grandfather Heinrich Laakmann (1802-1891) died about six months before he was born. He grew up in Pärnu (Pernau) in Estonia and attended school there. From 1910 he studied history at the University of Tartu (Dorpat) and graduated after the First World War in 1918. He then joined the Baltic regiment to fight the Red Army .

Then he was a high school teacher in Pernau and a teacher and newspaper editor in Dorpat. As a textbook for German schools in Estonia, he wrote the history of Livonia, Estonia and Courland, the current republics of Eesti and Latwija , which is considered to be a general representation of Baltic German history. In the 1930s he was a private scholar in Pernau. At the instigation of Edmund Spohr , he became an employee of the "Institute for Scientific Local Research" in Dorpat. From 1930 to 1939 he was the president of the “Altertumsforschenden Gesellschaft zu Pernau” and in 1939 he was responsible for the publication of the Livonian document book.

After the conclusion of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , he left Estonia and went first to Poznan and later to Berlin and Bautzen as a speaker and librarian at the Berlin-Dahlem Publications Office . After the Second World War he lived in Soltau and Bad Hersfeld . In 1951 he was a co-founder of the Baltic Historical Commission .

Heinrich Laakmann mainly worked on the history of the Baltic States , the history of Livonia and the former Hanseatic city of Pernau. He also worked as a translator. As a Medievalist he studied Estonian and Latvian settlements, pre-German principalities on the Daugava and the beginnings of German rule in Livonia. The collection of historical maps he edited with explanations Die Baltic Lande has been widely used since its publication in 1954. His monograph History of the City of Pernau in the German Order (until 1558) was published posthumously in 1956.

Fonts

  • History of Liv, Estonia and Courland, the current republics of Eesti and Latwija. Kluge and Ströhm, Reval 1924.
  • On the history of Henry of Latvia and his time. Institute for local scientific research, Dorpat 1933.
  • with Walter Anderson : A new document on the Estonian Metski cult from 1680. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1934.
  • The Pernau Citizens Register. Volume 1: 1615-1787. Volume 2: 1787-1889. Krüger, Dorpat 1936 and 1939.
  • Estonia and Livonia in prehistoric times. In: Carl Engel (Ed.): Ostbaltische Frühzeit. Hirzel, Leipzig 1969, DNB 579894398 , pp. 204-262.
  • Report on the Bolshevik cultural policy in Estonia. Publication office, Berlin-Dahlem 1940.
  • Agriculture in Estonia under the rule of Bolshevism. Publication office, Berlin-Dahlem 1941.
  • Ingermanland and the Ingermanland Finns. Publication office, Berlin 1942.
  • Soviet foreign policy 1917-45. Typescript, around 1950.
  • (Ed.): State and administrative borders in East Central Europe. Part 1: The Baltic countries. On behalf of the Baltic Historical Commission. 1954
  • History of the city of Pernau during the German Order period (until 1558). Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1956.

Translations:

  • Francis Balodis: Latvian Prehistory. Some current research problems. Publication office, Bautzen 1944.
  • Sven Ulric Palme: King Sigismund's fleet in the Baltic Sea 1599. Publication point, Bautzen 1944.
  • Oskar Loorits : Saint George in the Russian folk tradition of Estonia. Eastern Europe Institute, Berlin 1955

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Garleff : Georg von Rauch and the Baltic historical research. In: Gert von Pistohlkors , Matthias Weber (Hrsg.): State unity and national diversity in the Baltic States. Festschrift for Michael Garleff on his 65th birthday. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57819-7 , pp. 207ff., Here p. 208 ( Google books ).
  2. ^ A b Gert von Pistohlkors: Baltic historical research in three generations. In: Klaus Neitmann , Wolfgang Neugebauer , Michael F. Scholz (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the history of Central and East Germany (= journal for comparative and Prussian regional history. Volume 55). De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-359844186-8 , p. 243ff., Here p. 244 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Laakmann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laakmann, Karl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauza , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1955
Place of death Marburg