Hermann Krabbo

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Hermann Krabbo (born February 23, 1875 in Hamburg , † July 9, 1928 in Jena ) was a German archivist , historian and university professor . The main scientific work of the long-time archivist at the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin is the regest of the Margraves of Brandenburg from the Ascan family .

Life

Education and career

Hermann Krabbo grew up in Hamburg as the son of a businessman and attended the pre-school of the Bieber secondary school there. He passed his Abitur in 1894 at the Johanneum School of Academics . After he initially Jura had studied, he moved to history. He spent his first semester at the University of Geneva and then spent two semesters each in Tübingen and Marburg . In September 1896 he went to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1901 (speakers were Michael Tangl and Hans Delbrück ). His work The occupation of the German dioceses under the government of Emperor Frederick II (1212–1250) received the predicate diligentiae et eruditionis specimen insigne . In 1905 Tangl and Dietrich Schäfer completed their habilitation in Medieval and Modern History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences : The occupation of the German dioceses under Emperor Friedrich II .

In 1901 and 1902 Krabbo was an assistant at the Department of Historical Geography at Berlin University. From 1905 he worked in Berlin as a private lecturer for historical auxiliary sciences. In 1913 he received an extraordinary professorship  (a. O.) At the University of Leipzig . While doing military service in World War I , he suffered a serious wound and was taken prisoner of war . After he had embarked on a university career at Tangl's suggestion, he switched to the archives service due to his wounding. This decision was based on a proposal by Paul Fridolin Kehr , director general of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA) since 1915 , who had tried to win Krabbo for specialist archival training at the Prussian Archives. In April 1918 he went to the GStA as an archivist, where he was later promoted to the State Archives Council . In addition, he held an honorary professorship in Berlin from 1923 . In September 1927, Hermann Krabbo retired.

Research and Teaching

Hermann Krabbo is assigned to the Tangl School . He also stayed in Tangl's footsteps after he turned to his main work with the regests of the Askanian Margraves of Brandenburg and left the subject area of ​​papacy and empire influenced by Tangl. According to Annekatrin Schaller, he remained connected to Tangl insofar as he continued to regard auxiliary historical sciences as his teacher did as a means to an end. Like Tangl, he was not after large performing works, but presented his research results in around fifty essays, each of which usually addressed a narrowly defined topic that was meticulously and vividly worked on based on the source analysis. In 1922 he compiled the bibliography of Michael Tangl's writings and published it in the New Archive of the Society for Older German History .

His university lectures dealt with palaeography , diplomatics , seal studies , heraldry , archival studies , genealogy and historical geography from the subjects of the historical auxiliary sciences . Krabbo also taught these subjects at the Secret State Archives. There were also lectures at the university on German history in the Middle Ages and Prussian territorial history . He was considered an excellent teacher at the university as well as in archivist training at the Secret State Archives. Among the numerous dissertations that Krabbo suggested were, for example, works by Hermann Bauer on Die Tradition des Lehniner Archivs (1913) and Waldemar Giese on Die Mark Landsberg up to their transition to the Brandenburg Ascanians in 1291. Introduction. Chapters I and II. (1918). Giese later expressly thanked Krabbo, to whom I primarily owe my historical training . His students included Hellmut Kretzschmar and Gottfried Wentz , who started work at the State Archives in 1922 at the suggestion of Hermann Krabbo.

effect

Krabbo's main work from 1910, the Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanian house , is still a widely used source of historical science and was reissued in 1955. Even smaller research results from Krabbos still have an impact today. For example, Wittenberge is said to be in a document in 1226 that was only used as a transsumpt in an original document from Margrave Friedrich the Elder. J. von Brandenburg from February 15, 1463, was first mentioned in a document. In the said document, the jointly ruling Margraves Johann and Otto von Brandenburg supposedly decreed that no one was allowed to run a ferry on the Elbe between the town of Werben (Elbe) and “Wittemberge” . Hermann Krabbo described the document from 1226 as a forgery as early as 1910, which was confirmed by research in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt in January 2006.

Works (selection, chronological)

  • The occupation of the German bishoprics under the government of Emperor Frederick II (1212–1250). Reprint [d. Ed.] Berlin 1901, Kraus, Vaduz 1965.
  • Otto I's first promises to Innocent IV. In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History (NA) 27 (1902), pp. 155–523.
  • Bishop Virgil of Salzburg and his cosmological ideas. In: MIÖG 24 (1903), pp. 1–28.
  • The Brandenburg bishopric election in 1221. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History (FBPG) 17 (1904), pp. 1-20.
  • The Habsburg and Premyslid form books from the second half of the 13th century as a source for the history of the Ascanians of the Brandenburg region. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History (FBPG) 18 (1905), pp. 123–145, 361 ff.
  • The East German bishoprics, especially their occupation, under Emperor Friedrich II. Nachdr. [D. Ed.] Berlin 1906, Kraus, Vaduz 1965.
  • Northern Europe in the imagination of Adam from Bremen. In: Hanseatische Geschichtsblätter 36 (1909), pp. 37–51.
  • Regest of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic family . Self-published d. Association f. Business d. Mark Brandenburg, Leipzig, from 1910 (Hermann Krabbo, Georg Winter, Berlin 1955).
  • German and Latin script. In: Archiv für Schriftkunde I (1918), pp. 3–16.
  • Medieval seal of the city of Havelberg. In: Der deutsche Herold 51 (1920), pp. 55 f., 63 f. (see also: Herold (Association) ).
  • Bibliography of the writings of Michael Tangl. In: New archive of the Society for Older German History (NA) 44 (1922), pp. 147-150.

literature

  • Gustav Abb : Obituary for Hermann Krabbo. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History 41 (1928), p. 393.
  • Annekatrin Schaller: Michael Tangl (1861–1921) and his school. Research and teaching in the historical auxiliary sciences , Stuttgart 2002 (= Pallas Athene , 7), ISBN 3-515-08214-X (short biography of Krabbo p. 323 f.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, he died on July 8, 1928, cf. about here and here .
  2. ↑ a b Annekatrin Schaller, p. 323 f.
  3. ↑ Annekatrin Schaller, pp. 307 f., 313.
personal data
SURNAME Krabbo, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1928
Place of death Jena