Herman von Petersdorff

Herman Gustav Wilhelm Raimund Ernst von Petersdorff (born January 16, 1864 in Stettin , Prussia , † July 23, 1929 in Berlin ), was a German historian , archivist and author .

origin

His parents were the Prussian captain Gustav Karl Friedrich Ferdinand von Petersdorff (* February 16, 1831 - June 13, 1866) and his wife Marie Anna Sophie Johanna von Ohlen and Adlerscron (* October 9, 1843).

Life

From 1871 to 1876 von Petersdorff attended the municipal high school in Stettin and then until 1884 the Friedrich Wilhelm high school in Berlin. As a schoolboy he became a member of the genealogical-heraldic association Greif . Since he was hard of hearing after an illness in 1868, he did not become an officer, contrary to family tradition, but studied history and political sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from the winter semester 1884/85 after graduating from high school in 1884 . He became a member of the VDSt Berlin , whose coat of arms he designed. For a few semesters in 1886 and 1887 he studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . In Berlin, he became an issue on 20 December 1888 contributions to the economic, fiscal and military history of the Mark in the thirty years' war doctorate . He dedicated his dissertation to his grandfather, Baron von Ohlen and Adlerskron .

In 1894 he went to the Secret State Archives as an archive candidate and in the same year became a research assistant . After a few months he was transferred to the Marburg State Archives . In 1897 he was promoted to archive assistant at the Koblenz State Archives . There he became an archivist in 1900. In 1901 he went to the State Archives in Stettin . In 1908 he became an archivist . In 1918 he returned to the Secret State Archives, where he retired in 1929 due to old age.

He died in 1929 and was buried in the New Garrison Cemetery in Berlin.

As an old man , he became a member of the associations of German students in Berlin, Heidelberg, Marburg and Bonn . From 1891 to 1892 he was editor of the association's journal Akademische Blätter , in which he published numerous articles over many years. He worked as an association historian and association archivist of the VDSt . He managed the associated holdings in the Secret State Archives, where they were largely destroyed in 1945 by fire and looting.

Von Petersdorff wrote and published a large number of historical treatises on Prussian history and worked on the General German Biography in the last decade of the 19th century .

Some of his works are now available again as reprints from various publishers.

Honors

1903: Knight of Honor of the Protestant Order of St. John
1913: Legal knight of the Protestant Order of St. John

Works (selection)

Pomeranian students at Heidelberg University . 1887
Contributions to the economic, tax and military history of the Mark in the Thirty Years' War . Inaugural dissertation, Pierer'sche Hofdruckerei, Stephan Seidel & Co., Altenburg 1888
The associations of German students. Nine years of academic struggle . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1891
Elisabeth Staegmann and her group . 1893
General Johann Adolph Freiherr von Thielmann. A character image from the Napoleonic era . S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1894
Letters from Ferdinand Gregorovius to the State Secretary Hermann von Thile . Paetel Brothers, Berlin 1894
How the German Reich became. 1848-1871. A memorial book, presented to the German people on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the empire . Pauli's descendants, Berlin 1896
The first Hohenzollern emperor in the service of Prussian and German greatness. For the 100th birthday of Wilhelm I. Breitkopf & Härtel; Leipzig 1897
King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Successor, Stuttgart 1900
Empress Augusta . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1900
Queen Luise . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1903
From a great time . 1904
Kleist-Retzow. A picture of life . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Successor, Stuttgart and Berlin 1907
Otto von Bismarck - Correspondence . 1910
Frederick the Great - A picture of his life and time . A. Hofmann & Comp., Berlin 1902
Friedrich von Motz - A biography . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1913
German men and women - biographical sketches primarily on the history of Prussia in the 18th and 19th centuries . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1913
Queen Luise's court . Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1913
Bismarck on his 100th birthday . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1915
Bismarck's correspondence with Kleist-Retzow . Cotta, Stuttgart and Berlin 1919
Fridericus Rex - A Hero's Life . Paetel Brothers, Leipzig 1925
The great elector . Flamberg, Gotha 1926
Bismarck and the associations of German students
A Berlin merchant from the time of Frederick the Great (Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky)

literature

Petersdorff, Herman v. , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 262-263.
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of aristocratic houses: at the same time the nobility register of the German aristocratic association. Part A, 1916, p.624

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Herman von Petersdorff: Contributions to the economic, tax and military history of the Mark in the Thirty Years' War . Inaugural dissertation, Pierer'sche Hofdruckerei, Stephan Seidel & Co., Altenburg 1888

personal data
SURNAME	Petersdorff, Herman von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, archivist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 16, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1929
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Herman von Petersdorff: Contributions to the economic, tax and military history of the Mark in the Thirty Years' War . Inaugural dissertation, Pierer'sche Hofdruckerei, Stephan Seidel & Co., Altenburg 1888