Hermann Goens

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Hermann August Cornelius Goens (born January 17, 1863 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † October 4, 1946 there ) was a German secret high school supervisor and archivist who headed the Oldenburg State Archives (today's name: Lower Saxony State Archives (Oldenburg location) ) from 1918 .

Life

Goens was the son of Pastor Anton Goens (1816–1888) and his wife Caroline Henriette Friederike geb. Langreuther. He grew up in the country in Jade and from there attended the Old High School in Oldenburg . After graduating from high school, he studied theology at the universities of Jena , Erlangen , Kiel and Leipzig University from 1882 to 1885 . He then became a pastor in the evangelical diaspora community of Cloppenburg . In 1895 the State Ministry of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg appointed him as a school-related member for elementary schools in the Evangelical Oberschulkollegium Oldenburg. The appointment of the ecclesiastical and theological Goens, who was also conservative , aroused sharp protests from the Oldenburg State Teachers' Association ( OLLV ) and politically liberal forces in the country. This went so far that it led to a constitutional crisis in which more than two thirds of the MPs withdrew their confidence in the Minister for Churches and Schools Georg Flor in the so-called fall of the ministerial debate in the Oldenburg State Parliament on May 12, 1896 . However, the vote of no confidence failed due to the objection of Grand Duke Peter II that it was not in accordance with the constitution. Both Flor and Goens remained in their offices. However, he also failed in the following years to develop a positive relationship with the elementary school teachers in Oldenburg . According to his biographer Hilke Günther-Arndt , Goens' petty, morally strict, almost "snooping" and disciplinary conduct of office stood in the way. As a result, the Oldenburg elementary school teachers became estranged from the church, which was often shown in the following.

In 1905/08, Goen's proposals for the curriculum of the Protestant elementary schools, which one-sidedly emphasized the religious educational function of the school and the continuation of the single-class elementary school as a normal case, again led to violent protests in the state parliament and the OLLV . The bitterness of the teaching staff erupted after the November Revolution of 1918, when the OLLV refused to cooperate with the cleric Goens and forced his dismissal at the government board .

Goens then did a short additional training in historical auxiliary sciences and archival studies in Berlin-Dahlem and, as the successor to Georg Sello, became head of the Oldenburg State Archives. In 1924 he was also appointed head of the Oldenburg State Library .

Although his interests in regional studies previously extended more to researching the local flora, he quickly familiarized himself with his new areas of responsibility. Above all, he focused on the library development and the expansion of the subject catalog of the state library during the Weimar Republic goes back to him. On regional historical research he wrote essays on church history and the rural past of the country. According to Günther-Arndt, however, this forced work in the archive and in the state library has apparently remained a stranger to him, which has not changed anything about his rather formal membership in the board of the state association for antiquity and state history as well as in the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Goens found a balance in the study of coinage and the collecting of Oldenburg coins. The collection was later incorporated into the Oldenburg State Archives. He was also an employee of the manual for coinage. In 1932 Goens retired with the rank of Secret Archives Councilor. His successor was Hermann Lübbing .

family

Goens married Marie Luise Johanne Wilhelmine, born in Burhave , on September 27, 1894 . Mueller (1875–1949), the daughter of the general practitioner Heinrich Anton Mueller and Helene Christine geb. Gramberg. The couple had three daughters and one son.

Works

  • Stedingen on both sides of the river in old and new times. Together with B. Ramsauer. Published in: Oldenburg Yearbooks. Year 28. 1924. Pages 5–91.
  • The confiscation of church property during the Reformation in the evangelical area of ​​the Duchy of Oldenburg. Published in: Oldenburg Yearbooks. Year 31. 1927. Pages 7–116.
  • The medieval church in the Protestant area of ​​the Duchy of Oldenburg. Published in: Oldenburg Yearbooks. Year 32, 1928. Pages 5–95.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Flor, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Arnold In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 196-197 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Goens, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goens, Hermann August Cornelius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1946
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)