Heinz-Günther Borck

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Heinz-Günther Borck (born April 17, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German archivist and historian . From 1991 to 2007 he was head of the state archives Koblenz and head of the state archive administration Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life

Borck studied history, Latin, Middle Latin, philosophy and education at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his doctorate in 1968, he completed the archival preparatory service at the archive school in Marburg as a trainee lawyer for the State of Lower Saxony from 1968 to 1970 . He began his professional career as an assessor at the Lower Saxony State Archives in Osnabrück (1970–1975). Then he moved to the Hildesheim City Archives as archive director, which he headed together with the Hildesheim City Library for a total of 15 years (1976–1991). At the same time, in 1978 he took over the chairmanship of the Working Group of the Lower Saxony Municipal Archives (ANKA). In 1991 she returned to the state archives system. He succeeded Franz-Josef Heyen as director of the Koblenz state archive and head of the Rhineland-Palatinate state archive administration . From 1991 to 2007 he was managing director of the parliament's commission for the history of Rhineland-Palatinate, of which he has been a member of the scientific committee since 2007. He has been retired since April 2007.

Borck has been a lecturer at the University of Trier for constitutional history, regional history and archival studies since 1993 ( honorary professor since 2002 ). From 2002 to 2015 he was a member of the board of directors of the general association of German history and antiquity associations , which he received on November 17th. Appointed the first honorary member in the club's 166-year history in 2018; 1991–2008 he was chairman of the Association for History and Art of the Middle Rhine. In 2012 he became a member of the senior citizens' advisory board of the city of Koblenz, which he has been chairman of since 2014. In implementing the demands of the Nicosia Conference addressed to the state governments in the European Year of Active Aging and Commonality of Generations 2012 for improved social and political participation of older people, he not only campaigned for senior-friendly urban development in Koblenz, but also actively existing in the church (age limit of the Evangelical Church Order in the Rhineland), state (age limit for lay judges) and society (including economic disadvantages in insurance and loans) fought.

literature

  • Archivist, vol. 64 (2007), issue 2.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior Citizens' Advisory Board of the City of Koblenz: Age-discriminatory provisions
personal data
SURNAME Borck, Heinz-Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin