Jürgen Kloosterhuis

Jürgen Kloosterhuis (born March 4, 1950 in Coburg ) is a German archivist and historian . From 1996 to 2017 he was director of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage .

Life

Jürgen Kloosterhuis studied history , German , philosophy and political science at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna . During his studies he became a member of the Landsmannschaften Neoborussia Halle zu Freiburg, Prussia Danzig and Cimbria Vienna, whose past he has described in many publications.

From 1979 to 1980 he completed his preparatory service as a trainee lawyer for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Detmold State Archives and at the Marburg Archive School . In 1981 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He began his archival career in 1980 at the Münster State Archives . He worked there for a total of 16 years. In 1996 he became director of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin . He retired in July 2017.

Kloosterhuis is a member of numerous professional associations and committees, since 2004 honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin for modern history and historical auxiliary sciences and author of numerous scientific publications.

Memberships (selection)

• Historical Commission for Westphalia (since 1992)
• Working Group for Prussian History (since 1995)
• Prussian Historical Commission (since 1996)
• Herold (since 1996)
• Historical Commission for the Study of Freemasonry (since 1996)
• Historical Commission of Berlin (since 1997)
• Military History Commission of the Federal Republic of Germany (since 2001)

Fonts (selection)

A current list of publications can be found in: Kraus / Kroll, Historiker, pp. 645–656 (edited by Mario H. Müller).

• Legendary "tall guys". Sources on regimental culture of the royal grenadiers of Friedrich Wilhelm I, 1713–1740 . Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-923579-03-9 .
• Approaches to Friedrich Wilhelm I. A reading hour in the Königs Wusterhausen Palace , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13730-5 .
• Katte. Order and Articles of War. File analysis and military-historical aspects of a “specialized” story , 2. durchges. and exp. Edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13607-0 .

literature

• Frank-Lothar Kroll : archivist and historian. Jürgen Kloosterhuis as historian of the Hohenzollern State. In: Hans-Christof Kraus , ders. (Ed.): Historian and archivist in the service of Prussia. Festschrift for Jürgen Kloosterhuis , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, pp. 1–23.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kloosterhuis, Jürgen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the SPK website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Foreign associations and German foreign cultural policy 1908–1918 .
2. ↑ Archivist , Vol. 62 (2009), Issue 1, Col. 103.
3. ↑ Jens Bisky : With tall guys at the round table. Jürgen Kloosterhuis directed the Secret Prussian State Archives for more than two decades. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 31, 2017, p. 14.