Hermann Rothert

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Stone with a Rothert memorial plaque created by Karl Allöder at the Bersenbrück monastery

Hermann Rothert (born June 20, 1875 in Lippstadt , † January 31, 1962 in Münster ) was a German administrative lawyer , politician and historian . His most important works include the history of Westphalia and the history of the city of Osnabrück in the Middle Ages .

Life

As the son of Hugo Rothert , Hermann Rothert grew up in Lemgo and Soest . He wanted to study history, but at his father's request he began studying law and political science at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1895 he became active in his father's Corps Normannia-Halle . As an inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Philipps University in Marburg . He passed the assessor examination in 1901 and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

From 1903 to 1907 he was a government assessor in Johannisburg (East Prussia), Glogau (Silesia) and Marienwerder (West Prussia), where he married his wife Gertrud. In 1911 he was appointed district administrator of the Bersenbrück district (Lower Saxony), whose history he dealt intensively with. From 1916 to 1919 he represented the electoral district of Bersenbrück in the Hanoverian provincial parliament . In 1924 he founded the Bersenbrück District Museum. He promoted the painter Franz Hecker . In 1932 the Historical Commission for Westphalia appointed him a full member; In 1955 he received honorary membership.

In 1933 he was transferred to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, where he worked as a ministerial advisor. From autumn 1933 he worked for the government in Munster and for the high presidium of the province of Westphalia . In 1938 he took early retirement.

In the post-war period in 1945 he took over the department for art and science for three months at the senior executive committee in Münster. He was responsible for the accommodation of refugees and displaced persons . On August 31, 1945, he left the administration for good.

On October 26, 1946, he was appointed honorary professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , and until 1952 he held lectures on the history of Westphalia and the Hanseatic League .

Honors

In 1926, a settlement in Vintermoor, where Hermann Rothert had a model farm in the Bersenbrück district set up for raised bog management, was named as a new, independent municipality of Rothertshausen . In 1945 the city of Osnabrück awarded him the Justus Möser Medal . His hometown Lippstadt honored him by naming a street in Rothertstrasse. The city of Gütersloh and the communities of Bersenbrück and Neuenkirchen near Bramsche also have Hermann-Rothert-Strasse. The Kreisheimatbund Bersenbrück e. V. appointed him an honorary member.

Publications (selection)

  • House Sögeln. From the past of an Osnabrück noble seat , Bersenbrück 1921.
  • From the past of the Osnabrück region , Quakenbrück 1921.
  • The settlement of the district of Bersenbrück , Quakenbrück 1924.
  • The medieval loan books of the bishops of Osnabrück , Osnabrück 1932.
  • History of the city of Osnabrück in the Middle Ages , in two parts, Osnabrück 1937/1938.
  • Friedrichsdorf - a late 18th century settlement , Gütersloh 1939.
  • Westphalian history , 3 volumes, Gütersloh 1949–1951 (several NDe).
  • Fatherland and world must have an impact on him: Goethe in Westphalia , Münster 1949.
  • Home book of the district of Bersenbrück , Quakenbrück, 2nd edition 1949.
  • with August Schröder: The history and development of the Bersenbrück district , Bersenbrück 1951.
  • The oldest register of the city of Soest: 1302–1449 , Münster 1958.
  • Bramsche - the city of cloth, linen and wallpaper , Bramsche 1959.
  • The millennial kingdom of the Anabaptists in Münster 1534–1535 , Münster 1947.
  • Quakenbrück in the Thirty Years' War , Quakenbrück 1998 (new edition)

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 308.
  • Hermann Queckenstedt: Hermann Rothert (1875–1962) in: Hans Galen, Helmut Ottenjan (ed.): Westphalia in Lower Saxony , Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1993 ISBN 3-923675-37-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt , April 1981, Karl Allöder † , obituary
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 60 , 281.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: A contribution to the court constitution of the city of Soest in the Middle Ages .
  4. ^ New elections in Bersenbrück March 8, 2006 ( Memento of November 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Kreisheimatbund Bersenbrück ( Memento from June 6, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rothert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and regional historian in Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1962
Place of death Muenster