Hellmut Kretzschmar

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Robert Walter Hellmut Kretzschmar (born July 12, 1893 in Stolpen , † December 2, 1965 in Dresden ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

As the son of a local court secretary in Stolpen, Kretzschmar attended the local elementary school from 1900 to 1904 and the humanistic royal high school in Dresden-Neustadt from 1904 to 1913 . Kretzschmar then studied history, German, geography and philosophy at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and Leipzig . After being called up for military service as a Landsturmmann with an air force from 1916 to 1918, he continued his studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and graduated in September 1919 with a doctorate on the subject of “Relations between Brandenburg and the Wettin Lands 1464 –1486 " for Dr. phil. from. In the following year he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in history, German, Latin and philosophy at the University of Berlin.

In October 1920 Kretzschmar began an apprenticeship as an archive volunteer at the Secret State Archive Berlin-Dahlem , which he completed in March 1922 with the archival state examination to become an archive assessor. After passing the state examination, he moved to the Magdeburg State Archives , where he was appointed State Archives Council in 1927. In 1928 he went to Saxony to the main state archive in Dresden , his last place of work. There he was promoted to the Oberstaatsarchivrat in 1936 and to archive director in 1937. In 1958 he retired.

From 1942 Kretzschmar was also an honorary professor for modern regional history and from 1949 for historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Leipzig .

Kretzschmar was chairman of the Saxon Antiquities Association from 1936 to 1945 and of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1957 to 1962 . From 1937 to 1942 he was editor of the " New Archives for Saxon History " .

As a long-time member of the Historical Commission of the State of Saxony (1934–1950) and its deputy head (1950–1957), the Saxon Academy of Sciences elected him on November 17, 1956 as a full member of the philological-historical class of the SAW in Leipzig .

Since 1956 Kretzschmar was chairman of the commission for regional history at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and co-editor of the series of publications "Research on Medieval History".

Fonts

Hellmut Kretzschmar left numerous publications on the Saxon state and archive history, such as B .:

  • Historical news of the Alvensleben family since 1800. Castle bM 1930.
  • Current methodological questions of regional historical research. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte (BDLG) 88, 1951, pp. 28–40.
  • Imperial history and regional history in modern times. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte (BDLG) 90, 1953, pp. 1–16.

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke : Hellmut Kretzschmar in memory. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte (BDLG) 105, 1969, pp. 44–51 ( digitized version )
  • Reiner Groß : Hellmut Kretzschmar. 1893 to 1965. In: Heinz Heitzer, Horst Bartel (Hrsg.): Trailblazer of the GDR historical science. Biographies. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 125-135.
  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 363-364.

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personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmar, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kretzschmar, Robert Walter Hellmut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1965
Place of death Dresden