Helmuth Croon

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Helmuth Albrecht Croon (born January 2, 1906 in Krefeld ; † February 24, 1994 there ) was a German historian and archivist .

life and work

Croon, the son of a factory owner, was active in the youth movement . In 1914 he became a member of the Köngener Bund . In 1927 he joined the German Freischar group . He was also a member of the Academic Guild / Academic Freischar Köngen Berlin.

From 1924 to 1928, Croon studied history and economics in Tübingen , Königsberg and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1928 under Fritz Hartung with a thesis on status and taxes in the Jülich-Berg district in the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and Berlin , for which he Kurmärkische stalls files processed. As a pupil of Hartung, Croon was in charge of the 19th century department from 1930 and, from 1932, also the newly formed department “Modern Constitutional History ” for the annual reports for German history published by Hartung and Albert Brackmann . In 1933 he published a short German constitutional history in the 19th and 20th centuries in an Italian anthology. The National Socialism was Croon against "friendly".

In August 1933, Croon joined the voluntary labor service , later the Reich Labor Service , as a clerk . He worked in Lingen (Ems) and Aachen until the end of 1942 , most recently as Oberstfeldmeister for special tasks at the Cologne-Aachen Arbeitsgauleitung. In January 1943 he took over the management of the archive of the Reich Labor Service and was appointed Labor Leader in 1944 .

After the end of the war, Croon was interned in 1945/46 and then a laborer in Krefeld. From 1950 to 1955 he worked as a research assistant at the Dortmund Social Research Center . In 1956 he became a consultant at the Federal Archives in Koblenz . In the same year he took over the management of the Bochum City Archives , where he worked until his retirement in 1971. On May 9, 1963, Croon became a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . In 1965 he was given a teaching position for administrative history and archival studies at the Ruhr University Bochum and in 1971 a teaching position for social history at the TH Aachen . In 1971 he was also appointed honorary professor at the Ruhr University.

With his studies on the composition of the municipal administrations of the cities in the Rhineland , in the Ruhr area and in Westphalia , Croon significantly shaped the social history research in this area. Since the 1960s, he also announced a monograph on the Reich Labor Service without ever submitting it.

Fonts

  • Stalls and taxes in Jülich-Berg on the 7th and 7th mainly in the 18th century. Ludwig Rohrscheid, Bonn 1929.
  • Brandenburg State Acts. Gsellius, Berlin 1938.
  • The Kurmarkische Land estates 1571-1616. Commissioned by Gsellius, Berlin 1938.
  • Social history research and archives. Presentation. In: Archivist. Archive journal. 7: 243-254 (1954).
  • The impact of industrialization on the social stratification of the population in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Bonn 1955.
  • The city councils in Krefeld and Bochum in the 19th century. A contribution to the history of the self-government of the Rhenish and Westphalian cities. In: Richard Dietrich , Gerhard Oestreich (Ed.): Research on the state and constitution. Festival ceremony for Fritz Hartung. Berlin 1958, pp. 289-306.
  • Rhenish cities and their citizens in the 19th century. Lecture at the reception d. City of Remscheid on the occasion d. 150 anniversary of the city becoming a town. Office f. Economic u. Transport promotion, Remscheid 1958.
  • together with Kurt Utermann: colliery and community. Investigations into the structural change of a mining community in the northern Ruhr area. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1958.
  • Contributions to the sociology of communities. West German Verl, Cologne 1960.
  • The structural change in the Ruhr area and its effects on the archives. Main lecture at the 38th German Archives Day in Essen. In: Archivist. Archive journal. 13 (1960), No. 4, pp. 419-436.
  • The social impact of municipal electoral law in the municipalities and districts of the Rhineland and Westphalia in the 19th century. West German Verl., Cologne [a. a.] 1960.
  • Urban transformation and urban development in the Ruhr area in the 19th century. In: From history and regional studies. Research and Representation. Dedicated to Franz Steinbach on the occasion of his 65th birthday by his friends and students. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1960, pp. 484-501.
  • Labor camp and labor service. In: Elisabeth Korn u. a. (Ed.): The youth movement. World and effect. For the 50th anniversary of the Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner. Diederichs, Cologne / Düsseldorf 1963, pp. 221-234.
  • On the development of cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Studium generale. Journal for interdisciplinary studies. 16 (1963), No. 9, pp. 565-575.
  • Bourgeoisie and administration in the cities of the Ruhr area in the 19th century. Bruckmann, Munich 1964.
  • Supplying the major cities of the Ruhr area in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics. 179 (1966), No. 4, pp. 356-368.
  • The economic ruling classes in the Rhineland and Westphalia. 1790-1850. In: Herbert Helbig (Hrsg.): Executives of the economy in the Middle Ages and modern times. Büdinger Lectures 1968-1969. Starke, Limburg 1973, pp. 311-336.
  • The economic leadership of the Ruhr area. 1950-1914. In: Herbert Helbig (Hrsg.): Executives of the economy in the Middle Ages and modern times. Büdinger Lectures 1969-1970. Starke, Limburg 1977, pp. 201-234.
  • The beginnings of parliamentarization in the Reich and the effects on Prussia. Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 1984.
  • Municipal ordinances in southwest Germany. In: Helmut Naunin (Ed.): City regulations of the 19th century. Contributions to the local history of Central and Western Europe. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1984, pp. 233-271.

literature

  • Gustav Seebold: Helmuth Albrecht Croon † . In: Der Archivar 47 (1994), p. 655.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ewald Grothe : Between history and law. German constitutional historiography 1900-1970. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 9783486577846 , p. 235.
  2. ^ Regina Jeske: Municipal office holders and decision makers. The political elite. In: Lothar Gall (ed.). City and bourgeoisie in transition from traditional to modern society. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 9783486560305 ( Historische Zeitschrift. Beihefte , 16), pp. 274f.
  3. ↑ Kiran Klaus Patel : "Soldiers of Work". Labor services in Germany and the USA 1933-1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 9783525351383 , pp. 20f.
personal data
SURNAME Croon, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Croon, Helmut; Croon, Helmuth Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1994
Place of death Krefeld