Helmut Maurer (historian)

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Helmut Maurer (born May 3, 1936 in Donaueschingen ; † December 29, 2018 in Konstanz ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1966 until his retirement in 2001 he was in charge of the Konstanz city archive. His research made him a specialist in the Southwest German-Swiss national history of the Middle Ages.

Live and act

The son of a government building inspector and civil engineer attended elementary school and the first four classes of grammar school in Donaueschingen . In November 1950 he switched to the Goethe-Gymnasium in Emmendingen . There he passed his Abitur in 1956 and received the Scheffel Prize “for special achievements in the German language”. From 1956 to 1963 he studied history, prehistory and early history, German, geography and politics at the University of Freiburg i. Br. His most important academic teacher was Gerd Tellenbach . He received important cultural impulses from Martin Wellmer . During the semester break of his first academic years in 1956, 1957 and 1958, he was entrusted by the State Office for Archive Maintenance with the initial order and inventory of the Freiherr von Reischach Archives in Schlatt unter Krähen and the Freiherr von Hornstein Archives in Bietingen and Binningen (Hegau). In Freiburg he also received his doctorate in 1962 under Gerd Tellenbach on the Lords of Krenkingen and the land between the Black Forest and Randen in the early and high Middle Ages. From 1963 to 1964, Maurer was a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Rome with a research assignment at the Vatican Archives . In 1964 he joined the archives service in Baden-Württemberg. In 1965 he passed the assessor examination at the archive school in Marburg and in 1966 he succeeded Otto Feger as director of the Konstanz city archive. Until 2001 he was in charge. In 1978 he became archive director. In 1981, Maurer was appointed honorary professor for medieval history with a special focus on regional history at the University of Konstanz . As an academic teacher, he supervised eleven dissertations. Among his academic students were Harald Derschka and Fredy Meyer .

Maurer was elected to the board in 1967 and was president of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings from 1972 to 1979 . As president, he ensured long-term cooperation between the association and the newly founded university. During Maurer's presidency, the number of members rose to over 1,000. He had specifically promoted the recruitment of members by holding lectures in the larger cities of the Lake Constance area. Maurer took over the editorship of the volume, which was published in 1974 on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of the founding of Reichenau Abbey . The association dedicated a commemorative publication to him and appointed him honorary president in 1999. Maurer was a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1968), became a corresponding member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg in 1972 and a full member in 1975 . He was also a member of the Alemannic Institute , the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research and the Board of Trustees for Comparative Urban History . In 1994 he was awarded the St. Gall Cultural Foundation Prize. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a one-day colloquium was held in Konstanz on May 27, 2016 with the topic of Constance and the Southwest of the Empire in the High and Late Middle Ages . Maurer died on December 29, 2018 at the age of 82.

Maurer's main research interests were the medieval constitutional, social, church and city history, especially of southwest Germany and Switzerland, and the history of the city of Constance. The list of publications published in 2017 in the Festschrift on the occasion of his 80th birthday lists 14 monographs and 245 essays and smaller contributions. One focus was the subject of the Duke of Swabia. In addition, he published essays on the Rottweiler court court, Bodman, Wahlwies, the Hohentwiel and the establishment of the ducal rule in Swabia from the 1960s. or to the attempts that Charles IV made to renew the Duchy of Swabia. In 1978 his account of the Duke of Swabia appeared in the Ottonian , Salian and Staufer times, he presented a standard work. He opted for regional historical access via the “suburbs” such as Zurich , Breisach , Ulm and Strasbourg , Rottweil and the Hohentwiel , where “the Duke's rule [...] manifested and concentrated”. But aspects of the Duke's self-image and representation are also taken into account. According to Maurer, the exercise of ducal power in Swabia in the 10th and early 11th centuries was only possible “when it tried to connect to a location that had previously been a center of royal government”. When looking at the suburbs, Maurer came to the following conclusion: By using "royal palaces, royal courts, royal palatinate towns with royal markets and royal coins, he imitated forms of rule of royalty and took the place of the king in these places".

In the autumn of 1983, he held a conference of the Constance working group on the island of Reichenau on the subject of “Communal alliances of Upper Italy and Upper Germany”. The contributions to the conference were edited by Maurer in 1987. With Raymund Kottje he initiated an autumn conference of the Constance working group in 1986 on the subject of “Monastic reforms in the 9th and 10th centuries”. In the autumn of 1997 he led a conference of the Constance working group on the subject of "Swabia and Italy in the High Middle Ages (10th - 13th centuries)" together with Thomas Zotz and Hansmartin Schwarzmaier .

Another focus of work was the history of the diocese and the city of Constance in the Middle Ages. In 1973 his depiction of Constance appeared as the Ottonian bishopric. For the Germania Sacra he worked on the St. Stephan monastery in Konstanz in 1981 and in 2003 conceived the volume on the Bishops of Konstanz from the 6th century to 1206. In 1989 a two-volume story about Konstanz in the Middle Ages was published. The second edition appeared in 1996. He published individual articles on the, the walls of the episcopal city or he wrote numerous articles on Constance and its bishops for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland , the Lexicon of the Middle Ages , the Lexicon for Theology and Church and the New German Biography .

In addition, from the 1980s he worked on the royal palaces and whereabouts of the king in the German Middle Ages on the long-term repertory of the German royal palaces of the Max Planck Institute for History . He was able to make his approach from his dissertation on the Duke's suburbs fruitful again. He edited the volume on Baden-Württemberg . The first part of the volume was published in 2004.

He also published biographical sketches for a number of historians such as Theodor Mayer , Hermann Heimpel and Konrad Josef Heilig for the history of historical science .

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Harald Derschka , Jürgen Klöckler , Thomas Zotz (eds.): Constance and the southwest of the empire in the high and late Middle Ages. Festschrift for Helmut Maurer on his 80th birthday (= Konstanz historical and legal sources. Vol. 48). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 3-7995-6848-4 , p. 209ff.

Monographs

  • The Bishops of Constance from the end of the 6th century to 1206. (= Germania Sacra . NF 42a). de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017664-5 ( digitized version ).
  • History of the city of Konstanz. 6 volumes. Stadler, Konstanz 1989–1996.
  • The St. Stephan Abbey in Constance. (= Germania Sacra. NF 15). de Gruyter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-11-008386-8 . ( Digitized version )
  • The Duke of Swabia. Foundations, effects and nature of his rule in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1978, ISBN 3-7995-7007-1 .
  • The land between the Black Forest and Randen in the early and high Middle Ages. Royalty, nobility and monasteries as politically effective forces (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region. Vol. 16). Alber, Freiburg i. Br. 1965.

Editorships

  • with Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, Thomas Zotz: Swabia and Italy in the High Middle Ages (= lectures and research. Vol. 52). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6652-X ( digitized version ).
  • with Raymund Kottje : Monastic reforms in the 9th and 10th centuries. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-6638-4 .
  • with Hans Patze : Festschrift for Berent Schwineköper. For his seventieth birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-7020-9 .
  • Saint Konrad, Bishop of Constance. Studies on the occasion of the thousandth anniversary of the year of his death. Herder, Freiburg 1975, ISBN 3-451-17449-9 .

literature

  • Harald Derschka, Jürgen Klöckler, Thomas Zotz (eds.): Constance and the southwest of the empire in the high and late Middle Ages. Festschrift for Helmut Maurer on his 80th birthday (= Konstanz historical and legal sources. Vol. 48). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 3-7995-6848-4 . in this:
    • Jürgen Klöckler: The Konstanz city archive under the direction of Helmut Maurer (1966–2001) pp. 189–195.
    • Thomas Zotz: The researcher Helmut Maurer. Attempt at an appreciation pp. 197–201
    • Birgit Kata: Helmut Maurer as an academic teacher, pp. 203-208
  • Helmut Maurer. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 261-270 ( digitized version ).
  • Harald Derschka: Helmut Maurer (1936–2018). In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . 137, 2019, pp. XXXIV – XXXVIII.
  • Jürgen Klöckler: A mediator of city history. The former city archivist and historian Helmut Maurer died at the age of 82. In: Südkurier (Konstanz), No. 9, Jan. 11, 2019, p. 17.
  • Thomas Zotz: Helmut Maurer (1936-2018). In: sheets for German national history . 154, 2018, pp. 817-819 ( online ).
  • Thomas Zotz: Helmut Maurer (1936-2018). In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. 167, 2019, pp. 421-424.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Thomas Zotz: Helmut Maurer (1936-2018). In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. 167, 2019, pp. 421–424, here: p. 421.
  2. ↑ Harald Derschka: Helmut Maurer (1936–2018). In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. 137, 2019, pp. XXXIV – XXXVIII, here: pp. XXXVI.
  3. ↑ Eduard Hindelang (ed.): Geselligkeit am See. Dedicated to Helmut Maurer by the board of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Friedrichshafen 1989.
  4. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Rottweil and the dukes of Swabia. On the high medieval foundations of the Rottweiler court court. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department. 85 (1968) pp. 59-77.
  5. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Bodman, Wahlwies, the Hohentwiel and the establishment of the ducal rule in Swabia. In: Herbert Berner (Ed.): Bodman, Dorf - Kaiserpfalz - Adel. Sigmaringen 1977, pp. 287-307.
  6. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Karl IV. And the renewal of the Duchy of Swabia. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 114 (1978) pp. 645–657 ( online )
  7. ↑ See the reviews of Joachim Dahlhaus in: Historische Zeitschrift 232 (1981), pp. 139–143; Robert Scheyhing in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 97 (1980), pp. 350–352; Wilfried Hartmann in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 36 (1980), p. 269 ( online ); Thomas Zotz in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 29 (1979), pp. 363-368; Hans Schadek in: Journal of the Breisgau History Association “Schau-ins-Land” 99 (1980), pp. 153–155 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Helmut Maurer: The Duke of Swabia. Foundations, effects and nature of his rule in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. Sigmaringen 1978, pp. 33-127.
  9. ↑ Helmut Maurer: The Duke of Swabia. Foundations, effects and nature of his rule in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. Sigmaringen 1978, p. 33.
  10. ↑ Helmut Maurer: The Duke of Swabia. Foundations, effects and nature of his rule in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. Sigmaringen 1978, p. 39.
  11. ↑ Helmut Maurer: The Duke of Swabia. Foundations, effects and nature of his rule in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. Sigmaringen 1978, p. 112.
  12. ↑ See the reviews by Roland Pauler in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 69 (1989), p. 427 ( online ); Pierre Racine in: Francia 16 (1989), pp. 335-336 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Constance as an Ottonian bishopric. The self-image of the clergy in the 10th century. Göttingen 1973.
  14. ^ Helmut Maurer: The Constance citizenship in the investiture dispute. In: Josef Fleckenstein (Hrsg.): Investiture dispute and Reich constitution. Sigmaringen 1973, pp. 363-371.
  15. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Constance: The walls of an episcopal city in the high Middle Ages. In: City and Country Walls. Volume 1, Zurich 1995, pp. 23-29.
  16. ↑ Helmut Maurer: The council chapel. Observations using the example of St. Lorenz in Constance. In: Festschrift for Hermann Heimpel. Vol. 2, Göttingen 1972, pp. 225-236.
  17. ^ Helmut Maurer: Theodor Mayer (1883–1972). His work mainly during the time of National Socialism. In: Karel Hruza (ed.): Austrian historians 1900–1945. CVs and careers in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia in portraits of the history of science. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2008, pp. 493-530; Helmut Maurer: Hermann Heimpel and Theodor Mayer. About two crossing paths in life. In: Johannes Mötsch (Ed.): An Eifler for Rhineland-Palatinate. Festschrift for Franz-Josef Heyen on his 75th birthday on May 2, 2003. Volume 2, Mainz 2003, pp. 673–687.
  18. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Konrad Josef Heilig (1907-1945). Medievalist and political publicist. In: Karel Hruza (Ed.): Austrian Historians 1900-1945. CVs and careers in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia in portraits of the history of science. Vol. 2. Vienna 2012, pp. 615–647.
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Donaueschingen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2018
Place of death Constancy