Herbert Helbig

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Herbert Helbig (born July 4, 1910 in Leipzig , † July 26, 1987 in Celle ) was a German historian .

The son of a businessman passed the Abitur in Leipzig and studied the first three semesters at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (1930/31). In 1932 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig . There he was particularly influenced by Rudolf Kötzschke . In 1937 he received his doctorate with the work Die Kirchenpatrozinien in Sachsen on the basis of settlement history . The scientific activities were interrupted by the Second World War. In 1942 he was given an assistant position at the State History Institute. Due to his membership in the NSDAP , he was unable to get reinstatement in the university service in Leipzig after 1945. In Leipzig he worked on the territorial state and estates. There he completed his habilitation in 1949 with a thesis on the Wettin corporate state from the beginning of the 12th century to the partition of 1485. In 1949/50 he went to the Free University of Berlin . In Berlin he turned more and more to economic and social history in general and the history of the city in particular. In 1958 he became an associate professor in Berlin and in 1962 he was given the chair for medieval history (economic and social history). He turned down a call to the University of Frankfurt . In 1975 he retired.

Helbig had close ties to Japanese history. In 1963 he made his first trip to Japan. Through Helbig's mediation, there was a guest lecturer position from 1965 to 1986, which was filled by a German-speaking Japanese university colleague at the Berlin Friedrich Meinecke Institute, alternating between one and two years . In 1973, Helbig took over the chairmanship of the Association for the Promotion of the Central Agency for Germans for Personal and Family History and the Foundation Central Agency for German Personal and Family History in Berlin, succeeding Herbert Spruth . In 1976 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Hokkaidō .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Society and economy of the Mark Brandenburg in the Middle Ages (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 41). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1973, ISBN 3-11-003795-5 .
  • The carriers of the Rapallo policy (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958.
  • The Wettin corporate state. Investigations into the history of the estates and the state constitution in Central Germany until 1485. Böhlau, Münster a. a. 1955 (2nd, unchanged edition. Böhlau, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-412-02178-4 ).
  • The Reformation of the University of Leipzig in the 16th century (= writings of the Association for Reformation History. Vol. 171). Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1953.
  • The familiar: 1680–1980. An association of Leipzig merchants. Contributions to social welfare and to the common sense of a business community. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7772-8025-9 .

Editorships

  • Sources on the earlier economic history of Central Germany. 5 parts. Böhlau, Weimar 1952/53.

literature

  • Felix von Schroeder: Herbert Helbig (1910–1987) [obituary]. In: Südostdeutsches Archiv Vol. 30/31 (1987/88), pp. 203-204.
  • Knut Schulz : Herbert Helbig on his 70th birthday. In: The Herald. Quarterly journal for heraldry, genealogy and related sciences Vol. 9, 23rd Jg. (1980), pp. 261–268.
  • Knut Schulz: Nekrolog Herbert Helbig July 4, 1910– July 26, 1987. In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 246 (1988), pp. 224-227.
  • Knut Schulz: Herbert Helbig zum Gedächtnis (4.7.1910–26.7.1987) [Obituary] In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany Vol. 36 (1987), pp. 719–723.
  • Knut Schulz: Contributions to the economic and social history of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Herbert Helbig on his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1976, ISBN 3-412-01675-6 .
  • Knut Schulz: Herbert Helbig. Work and career. In: Enno Bünz: 100 Years of State History (1906–2006). Leipzig achievements, entanglements and effects (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Vol. 38). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-618-2 , pp. 285-316.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Max Bruhn : Dr. Herbert Spruth †. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter und Mitteilungen NF Volume 2, 1972–81, pp. 16–17.
personal data
SURNAME Helbig, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1987
Place of death Celle