Herbert Spruth

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Herbert Botho Ortwin Spruth (born September 5, 1900 in Berlin ; † July 3, 1972 ibid) was a German lawyer , genealogist and Pomeranian researcher.

Life

childhood and education

Herbert Spruth came from a family of craftsmen, succinic dealers or -Künstlern and merchants from the stumbling room and was the son of from Anklam originating Berlin school professor and student council Otto Spruth (1861-1933) and his second wife Olga Brottka (* 1879) in Berlin -Charlottenburg was born in his parents' apartment at 38 Schloßstraße . He attended the Realgymnasium Lichterfelde and passed his matriculation examination in 1918 . In the same year he joined the Pomeranian Train Battalion No. 2 as a flag junior , and then served as a volunteer in various corps until 1920 . He completed his philology and law studies in Berlin and Tübingen , where he was an organized corps student in Berlin from 1919 to 1921 at Corps Baltia Berlin . In 1921 he became a doctor of political science doctorate - his thesis was entitled: Ways to economic and social advancement of the farm worker.

Professional background

Spruth started his career in 1922 as an archivist at the management of Dresdner Bank in Berlin. From 1924 various positions finally took him to the legal preparatory service , with subsequent employment as a court assessor in Berlin in 1933. Immediately afterwards he was a trial judge at the district court of Lichterfelde and from summer 1933 he worked in the army administration , where he remained until 1945. At the beginning of 1934 Spruth became a government assessor at the Reichswehr Ministry and a quarter of a year later the directorate and administrative officer of the 1st Cavalry Division Potsdam . In 1936 he moved to the military district administration in Berlin, in 1938 he was promoted to chief directorate and in 1941 to chief director. During his service, Spruth was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and War Merit Cross 1st Class.

After it was bombed out in Berlin in 1943, he had built a house in Fischerkathen in the Greifenberg district and lived in it until the arrival of the Red Army , which he called Nordland .

In 1945 and 1946 Spruth was head of the control department of the German Administration for Trade and Supply in Berlin. From 1951 he found employment as a business tax lawyer at IG Farbenindustrie AG . From 1953 to 1956 Spruth was an administrative judge at the Berlin Administrative Court .

Research performance

Herbert Spruth is said to have dealt with family research as a high school student. He began to publish in 1924 and by 1955 was able to contribute around 300 thematically relevant articles. By 1972, when a heart attack that followed a leg amputation brought an abrupt end to his life, Spruth had published over 600 specialist articles. His outstanding work is the Pomeranian Bibliography , which is still the most important work for local and family history work in Pomerania.

During his research life Spruth took on numerous relevant functions:

family

Spruth married Anna Björgan (* 1908) from Norway in 1933 in Berlin-Lichterfelde . The three daughters Heide (* 1935), Edda (* 1937), Borghild (* 1938) and son Harald (* 1941) emerged from the marriage.

literature

  • Anonymous: Dr. Herbert Spruth †. In: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies . Volume 25, Volume 60, Issue 8, October – December 1972, p. 221
  • Max Bruhn : Dr. Herbert Spruth †. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter and Mitteilungen New Series Volume 2, 1972–81, pp. 16–17
  • Max Bruhn: Herbert Spruth (1900–1972). In: Baltic Studies . New series Volume 58 (Volume 104 of the complete series), Verlag Christoph von der Ropp, Hamburg 1972, pp. 138-139
  • Max Bruhn: Dr. Herbert Spruth, a deserving Pomeranian researcher. In: Pomerania. Art, history, folklore. Volume 10, No. 3, 1972, pp. 37-38
  • Max Bruhn: Dr. Herbert Spruth † a deserving Pomeranian researcher. In: Sedina-Archiv vol. 18, 1972, pp. 117–118
  • German gender book . Volume 90, 1936, pp. 521-541 (with picture)
  • Rudolf Schönthür: Dr. Herbert Spruth in memory. In: East German family studies . Volume 6, Volume 20, Issue 3, July – September 1972, p. 215
  • Kurt Winckelsesser: Dr. Herbert Spruth 70 years. In: East German family studies. Volume 5, Volume 18, Issue 3, July – September 1970, pp. 347–348

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Spruth's personal form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
  2. ^ Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families . Volume 100, CA Starke, Görlitz [1938], pp. 455-479, especially p. 478.
  3. ↑ a b c d Herbert Spruth: The sexes Spruth. In: German Family Archives . Volume 3, Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1955, pp. 175-311, especially p. 215.
  4. ↑ Handbook of Justice. 2nd year, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn 1954, p. 165; 3rd year 1956, p. 171.
  5. ↑ Pommern Bibliography , new edition as CD-ROM by Degener & Co. Verlag.
  6. ↑ Head of Research Unit. The heads of the research centers at AGoFF. on the side of the Working Group of East German Family Researchers.
personal data
SURNAME Spruth, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spruth, Herbert Botho Ortwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, genealogist and Pomeranian researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1972
Place of death Berlin