Hugo Cordshagen

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Hugo Cordshagen (born August 20, 1921 in Güstrow ; † December 6, 1976 ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

The eldest of the three sons of butcher Paul Cordshagen was called up for military service in Güstrow after graduating from high school in 1939. As a severely disabled person, he began studying history at the Universities of Freiburg i. B. (WS 1943/44, SS 1944), Göttingen (WS 1944/45) and Rostock (1946–1950). Here he graduated with a diploma in 1950 and received his doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation on the historical development of coastal protection . In 1950 he was trained as a scientific archivist in the first course at the Institute for Archival Science in Potsdam . He then came to the Mecklenburg State Main Archive in Schwerin in 1951 , was appointed acting director in 1953 and confirmed in office in 1955. For political reasons, Cordshagen was demoted to deputy director under Franz Höppner in 1964 , who at the time was still deputy chairman of the district council for culture. Cordshagen joined the NSDAP in 1939, after 1945 he remained independent. Cordshagen was married to the scientific archivist Christa Cordshagen, born in the Schwerin archive. Zitterstein (* December 21, 1919, † March 27, 2008).

Publications

Monographs, articles

  • Coastal protection in Mecklenburg. His story of d. Beginnings up to 1945 (= publications of the Mecklenburg State Main Archives; Vol. 3), Schwerin: Petermänken 1964.
  • The branch of the Mecklenburg State Main Archive in Schwerin in the former Marstall in Ludwigslust , in: Archive messages. Journal for archives, archival source studies and historical auxiliary sciences 14 (1964), issue 3, pp. 109–113.
  • The archive of the Mecklenburg estates. Its importance as a source for the history of Mecklenburg , in: Archive messages. Journal for archives, archival source studies and historical auxiliary sciences 18 (1968), issue 1, pp. 23-26.
  • with Stuhr, Friedrich; Cordshagen, Christa: Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch . Vol. 25, Part B: Supplements 2nd row: 1235 - 1400, Leipzig 1977.

Editorships

  • Publications of the Mecklenburg State Main Archive in connection with the State Archive Administration, Schwerin: Petermänken-Verlag

literature

  • Directory of archivists, edited in the Wiesbaden State Archives, 3rd edition 1955.
  • Andreas Röpcke : Politics before professionalism. The removal of the Schwerin archive director Dr. Hugo Cordshagen 1964. In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 88 (2006), pp. 762–775 doi : 10.7788 / az-2006-0213 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Edited by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library Schwerin, Rostock: Hinstorff 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ See Röpcke
personal data
SURNAME Cordshagen, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1976