Jürgen Wetzel

Jürgen Wetzel (* 1938 in Garlitz , Märkisch Luch municipality , Havelland district) is a German historian . Between 1991 and 2003 he was director of the Berlin State Archives .

Life

Wetzel is the son of the farmer Gerhard Wetzel and Erika, geb. Giese.

He attended the village school in Garlitz from 1945 to 1952. In 1953 the family fled to West Berlin . There he attended the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg and the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium in Neukölln , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1960. He then studied history, political science and sociology in Marburg (1960–62) and Kiel (1962–68). A year later he received a doctorate in Kiel for Dr. phil. .

In 1970 he began as a lecturer in the history of political parties and party law at the Eicholz Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , until he completed his training as a scientific archivist at the Berlin State Archives and at the Institute for Archive Studies in Marburg from 1971. In 1973 he passed the state examination for higher archival service and was appointed temporary archivist at the Berlin State Archives. From 1974 to 1976 he was in charge of the construction planning for the archive building on Kalckreuthstraße (Berlin-Schöneberg) and the move there from Straße des 17. Juni. From 1977 to 1981 he worked for a total of twelve months as part of the OMGUS project to index files of the American military government in Berlin from 1945 to 1949 in the National Archives in Washington. In 1980 he was appointed archivist and deputy head of the state archives. A year later, he was appointed archive director. From 1991 he headed the state archive and merged it with the three East Berlin archives. In 1994 he was appointed chief archive director. Wetzel followed Dagmar Unverhau from 1991 to 2003 as director of the Berlin State Archives . In this function he organized the amalgamation of the various locations of the Berlin State Archives in East and West Berlin at a central point on Eichenborndamm. In 2000, under his leadership, the state image center and the IBA archive were transferred to the state archive. In 2003 Wetzel was retired.

Jürgen Wetzel has been on the board of the Association for the History of Berlin since 1978 , and has been an assessor since March 2015.

Honors

• Fidicin Medal of the Association for the History of Berlin (2004)

Works (selection)

Release

• Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives , years 1992 to 2003.
• with Sibylle Einholz : The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , years 1992 to 2003.
• Annual report of the Berlin State Archives , 1999 to 2002.
• Series of publications by the Berlin State Archives , Volumes 1 to 6, 1992 to 2003.

Monographs

• Theodor Lehmann and the national movement in Schleswig-Holstein 1859–1862 (= doctoral thesis), Neumünster 1971.
• Between allegiance to the king and citizens' interests. Berlin's Lord Mayor HW Krausnick from 1834 to 1862 (= exhibition catalog of the Berlin State Archives, 4), Berlin 1985.
• Zehlendorf (= history of the Berlin administrative districts, edited by Wolfgang Ribbe , vol. 12), Berlin 1988.
• Ernst Reuter's estate . Finding aid No. 4 , ed. from the Berlin State Archives, Berlin 1988.
• Five months in Berlin. Letters from Edgar N. Johnson from 1946 , ed. and edit by Werner Breunig and Jürgen Wetzel, Berlin 2014.

Essays

• Inflation in Berlin 1923 . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Heft 4 (1973), pp. 337–347, and Spandauer Volksblatt of October 21, 1973 and October 28, 1973.
• Monarchy against Hitler. From the correspondence between Otto Braun and Albert Grzesinski 1934–1936 . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 26th episode, Berlin 1977.
• Julius Berends (1817-1891). A fighter for democracy and social justice . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 27th episode, Berlin 1978.
• with Brewster Chamberlin: June 17th and the RIAS. From a conversation with former RIAS director Gordon Ewing . In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives , Berlin 1982, pp. 165–190.
• Mayor Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick and Berlin's local politics from 1834 to 1862 . In: … deaf to the voice of time. Between allegiance to the king and citizens' interests. Berlin's Lord Mayor HW Krausnick from 1834 to 1862 , Berlin 1985 (= exhibition catalogs of the Berlin State Archives. 4).
• Bismarck contra Arnim - The struggle for power in the empire . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 36th episode, Berlin 1987.
• New acquisitions and additions to the State Archives in 1987 . In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives , Berlin 1988, pp. 133–143.
• 125 years of Düppel . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 39./39. Episode, Berlin 1989/90.
• with Sibylle Einholz : Thanks to Gerhard Kutzsch . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 41st episode, Berlin 1992.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick . In: Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): City leaders. Biographies of Berlin mayors in the 19th and 20th centuries . Berlin 1992 (= Berlin Life Pictures, 7).
• 1945 and 1989 - Two dates in the focus of Berlin history . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 42nd episode, Berlin 1993.
• The role of the Americans in the cultural renewal of Berlin . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 45th episode, Berlin 1996.
• "To the statistics". The fate of two women in Berlin . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 51st episode, Berlin 2002.
• Ernst Reuter 1889–1953. A biographical sketch . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 52nd episode, Berlin 2003.
• Madame der Staël in Berlin . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 54th episode, Berlin 2005.
• Berlin in the decade before the establishment of the Empire . In: Susanne Kähler , Wolfgang Krogel, Manfred Uhlitz (eds.): 150 years of the Berlin metropolis. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Association for the History of Berlin e. V., founded 1865 , Berlin 2015.

literature

• Klaus Dettmer (Ed.): "It grows together that which belongs together". Contributions to the scientific colloquium in honor of Jürgen Wetzel on November 25, 2003 in the Berlin State Archives (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives, Vol. 7), Berlin 2004. (Including picture, bibliography and curriculum vitae)
• N / A: Twelve yearbooks from the hands of Sibylle Einholz and Jürgen Wetzel . In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 53rd episode, Berlin 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Wetzel new director of the State Archives . In: Berliner Kurier , November 25, 1995
2. ↑ The state archive of the capital united in the new building . In: BZ , November 6, 2001
3. ↑ Board of the VfdGB (accessed on March 23, 2016)
4. ^ List of recipients of the Fidicin Medal