Heinrich Reincke

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Heinrich Theodor Reincke (born April 21, 1881 in Hamburg ; † November 3, 1960 in ibid) was a German archivist and historian .

The son of the doctor Julius Reincke graduated from the Johanneum School for Scholars in 1891 and graduated from high school in 1900. He then studied law and political science at the University of Erlangen . There he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1900 . In 1902 he went to Bonn. In 1904 he passed the trainee examination at the Cologne Higher Regional Court. He then deepened his historical and legal knowledge with the legal historian Aloys Schulte and the historian Wilhelm Levison . He received his doctorate in 1906 with the work The old Reichstag and the new Federal Council . In Hamburg, Reincke passed the second state examination at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in 1909 and began working as a research assistant at the Hamburg State Archives in the same year .

As a musketeer , he entered the First World War in 1915 and fought on the Western Front . In 1918 he became a research assistant at the State Archives. In 1920 he was appointed archivist. In 1925 Reincke received the Venia Legendi for Hamburg, Hanseatic and Low German national history from Hamburg University without a habilitation thesis . In 1928 he received the title of professor and in 1931 was appointed associate professor by the university's history department. From 1933 to 1947 Reincke was director of the State Archives. During the last two years of the Second World War, he temporarily took over the management of the Hamburg State and University Library . The National Socialism was Reincke against largely uncritically. As early as 1933, his Hamburg story appeared in a revised edition, which was consistently based on National Socialist ideas. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1945 he was deposed by the British military government , but reinstated in September 1946. In 1948 he retired.

Reincke's main research interests were Hanseatic history, closely linked to Hamburg's history. The focus of his work was on the 12th to 13th centuries of the early days of the Hanseatic League , Hermann Langenbeck , the city charter from 1497, the Reformation history of Hamburg and the life picture of Agneta Willeken from the time of Wullenwever . Some works, for example on the population problems of the Hanseatic cities, also span the entire Hanseatic period.

Reincke had been a member of the Association for Hamburg History since 1907 . Since 1910 member of the Hanseatic History Association . In 1920 he was a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1938 to 1950 he and Fritz Rörig edited the Hansische Geschichtsblätter. The University of Hamburg awarded him an honorary doctorate on his 75th birthday and the Association for Hamburg History the Lappenberg Medal . In 1975 the Reinckeweg in Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel was named after him and his father.

Fonts (selection)

  • The illuminated manuscript of the Hamburg city law from 1497. Newly published by Jürgen Bolland , Hamburg 1968.
  • Hamburg on the eve of the Reformation (= work on the church history of Hamburg. Vol. 8). Edited from the estate, introduced and supplemented by Erich von Lehe . Wittig, Hamburg 1966.
  • The Alster as Hamburg's lifeline. Schmidt, Hamburg 1958.
  • Research and sketches on Hamburg's history. Hofmann and Campe, Hamburg 1951.
  • Agneta Willeken. A picture of life from Wullenwever's days. Whitsun pages of the Hanseatic History Association, Lübeck 1928.
  • Hamburg an outline of the city's history from the beginning to the present. Friesen-Verlag, Bremen 1925.
  • Power politics and world economic plans of Emperor Charles IV. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1924.
  • The old Reichstag and the new Bundesrat (= treatises from constitutional, administrative and international law. Vol. 2.1). Mohr, Tübingen 1906.

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  1. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. Erlangen 1936, p. 295.
personal data
SURNAME Reincke, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reincke, Heinrich Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1960
Place of death Hamburg