Historical commission for Mecklenburg
| Historical commission for Mecklenburg | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Research into Mecklenburg history |
| Chair: | Ernst Münch |
| Establishment date: | 1928/1990 |
| Number of members: | 25th |
| Seat : | Graf-Schack-Allee 2 19053 Schwerin |
| Website: | Official website |
The Historical Commission for Mecklenburg is a registered non-profit association. It is their concern to promote research into Mecklenburg's regional history and to convey this to a broader public.
Regional historical reference
The working area of the commission is the historical cultural landscape of Mecklenburg , which was divided into different political units over the centuries: These include the Principality of Mecklenburg, both Mecklenburg duchies and grand duchies, the Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz , the NS- Gau Mecklenburg , Parts of the state of Mecklenburg after the Second World War and the three GDR districts of Rostock , Schwerin and Neubrandenburg .
Since the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania district reform in 2011, this historical area has been largely identical to the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim , Northwest Mecklenburg , Rostock , with the greater part of the Mecklenburg Lake District and a small part of the Vorpommern-Rügen district and with the two independent cities Schwerin and Rostock .
The predominant and therefore eponymous part of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen as well as the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald and a smaller part of the Mecklenburg Lake District, on the other hand, belong to the historical area of Pomerania , which the Historical Commission for Pomerania is researching.
History and start-up
With the historical commission for both Mecklenburgs, a predecessor institution existed until 1945, which was founded on June 22, 1928 based on the model of existing historical commissions in other countries (e.g. Bavaria ). In contrast to today's association, it was a state institution that included representatives from the two Mecklenburg state archives and the professorships for Medieval and Modern History at the Rostock State University . The most important result of the commission's work was the Historical Bibliography of Mecklenburg published in 1944 , which was largely edited by Wilhelm Heeß .
Today's Historical Commission for Mecklenburg was re-established on November 21, 1990. The main aim was to create structures that were compatible with the research landscape of the old federal states.
organization
The 25 members of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg work as archaeologists , archivists , preservationists , museum directors / museum educators , Germanists , history didacticians and historians in facilities and institutions in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and at universities in Hamburg , Marburg , Heidelberg , Jena and Berlin .
Chair of the historical commissions for Mecklenburg:
- Hans Spangenberg (1928–1933)
- Wilhelm Schüßler (1933–1935)
- Bruno Claussen (1935–1945)
- Helge bei der Wieden (1990-2002)
- Andreas Röpcke (2002–2011)
- Ernst Münch (since 2011)
The office is located in the main state archive in Schwerin .
Publications, series and meetings
The publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg have been published in three series since 1990.
- a multi-volume biographical lexicon for Mecklenburg
- Source editions on Mecklenburg state history
- a series of publications on Mecklenburg regional history
In the series of publications, the articles of conferences organized publicly are published regularly, which are thematically oriented. An annual report on the activities of the Historical Commission appears in the Mecklenburg Yearbooks .
literature
- Niklot Klüßendorf : Newly founded historical commission for Mecklenburg. In: Der Archivar 44, 1991, Col. 185 f.
- Peter-Joachim Rakow: Bruno Claussen and the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. In: Hanno Lietz (Ed.): Bruno Claussen at the Rostock University Library 1912–1949. University Library, Rostock 1995, pp. 85-86.
- Peter-Joachim Rakow: Historical Commission for Mecklenburg founded. In: Archive messages. 1991, p. 41.
- Peter-Joachim Rakow: The historical commission for Mecklenburg 1928-1945 - aspirations and experiences. In: Ernst Münch u. a .: Mecklenburg and the Empire in feudal and civil society. Agricultural history - social history - regional history. Contributions from the International Colloquium on 29./30. March 1990 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Sc. Phil. Gerhardt Heitz in Rostock. Rostock 1990, pp. 83-88.
- Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology (Ed.): Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. Schwerin 1931 ff.