Heinrich Otto Meisner
Heinrich Otto Meisner (born April 1, 1890 in Berlin , † November 26, 1976 in Potsdam ) was a German historian and archivist .
Life
Heinrich Meisner was the son of the department director at the Royal Prussian State Library in Berlin Heinrich Meisner . After attending the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Meisner began studying history, German language and literature and constitutional and administrative law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1908 , where he received his doctorate in 1913. phil. PhD.
In August 1913, Meisner got a job as an archive volunteer at the Stettin State Archives , but returned to his hometown in April 1914 to take the archive candidate examination at the Prussian Secret State Archives . He stayed in Berlin, where he was awarded the title of State Archivist in 1921 . From 1922 he was also a lecturer for archival studies, constitutional, administrative and official history at the Prussian Institute for Archive Studies in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1923 he was employed as a commissioner and in 1925 as head of the Brandenburg-Prussian house archive in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He held this position until 1928, when he returned to the State Archives, where he was seconded to Moscow and Leningrad to study Soviet archives . After his return from the Soviet Union in 1935 he was appointed chief archivist in the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam, where he experienced the destruction of the war.
After the end of the war, Meisner worked for the archive administration in Potsdam and in 1948 became legal advisor to the state parliament of Brandenburg .
In 1950 Meisner became a lecturer at the Institute for Archive Studies in Potsdam, and in 1953 professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 1961 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . On the occasion of his 70th birthday, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.
Karlheinz Blaschke is one of Meisner's students .
Meisner's estate is now administered in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
Publications (selection)
Heinrich Otto Meisner is considered to be the founder of modern file theory and has produced numerous publications on archival science and constitutional history .
- Letters to Rudolf Virchow on his 100th birthday. In: Literature archive in Berlin. 1921.
- Minister of War 1814–1914. A contribution to the military constitutional history , Berlin 1940
- Archivist and historian. Studies in archival and historical studies. On the 65th birthday of Heinrich Otto Meisner , ed. vd State. Archive administration in the State Secretariat for Internal Affairs (= series of publications of the State Archive Administration. Volume 7). Berlin 1956.
literature
- Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Meisner, Heinrich Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Wolfgang Leesch: Heinrich Otto Meisner † . In: Der Archivar , Vol. 30, 1977, Issue 4, Col. 469–474.
- Wolfgang Leesch: Meisner, Heinrich Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 689 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Otto Meisner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1960, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meisner, Heinrich Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |