Joachim Prochno

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Joachim Prochno (born June 17, 1897 in Niemegk , † September 10, 1945 in Prague ) was a German archivist and high school teacher. From 1941 to 1945 he was director of the Bohemian National Archives in Prague.

Life

Prochno completed his studies at the University of Leipzig in 1919 with a doctorate on “The population of Leipzig in the period before and after the Reformation”. He then worked as a high school teacher. In 1929 Prochno moved to the Zittau grammar school and at the same time began his research on the history of the city of Zittau , Upper Lusatia and Bohemia .

From 1934 Prochno was a member of the working committee of the Zittau History and Museum Association, three years later he became editor of the association. From 1939 Prochno led the association together with Ernst Alwin Seeliger.

Immediately after the Munich Agreement , Saxony also made claims against the rest of Czechoslovakia for the delivery of archival material from the Czech state archives. Prochno, who was considered a connoisseur of Prague stocks, was the proposal from the Oberlausitzischen Society of Sciences from the Central State Archive Dresden commissioned to prepare a list of eligible archival. At the suggestion of Hellmut Kretzschmar , Prochno was appointed by the head of the German Archives Commission, Ludwig Bittner, to the sub-commission for the formulation of the contract for an archive agreement with Czechoslovakia . After the decision was made on July 6, 1940 to hand over all archival materials relating to Upper Lusatia to Bautzen , Prochno was delegated to Prague in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in order to separate the Upper Lusatian subjects from the approximately 32,000 unregistered archives of the Bohemian Court Chamber . In June 1941 Prochno was appointed regional archivist to the German director of the Bohemian regional archives in Prague. The transport of the Prague court chamber files to the state branch archive of the Saxon Upper Lusatia on the Ortenburg in Bautzen took place in the late summer of 1941. At the end of March 1943 Prochno personally brought four suitcases with 175 documents from the period between 1406 and 1619 to Saxony. After the liberation of Prague in 1945, Prochno was arrested. He died on September 10, 1945 in protective custody in Prague, an eyewitness to his death was the folklorist Josef Hanika .

Prochnos widow Marie, née Menzel, and his son Rudolf moved to Leipzig to live with their in-laws after the end of the Second World War.

Prochno was the author of numerous historical essays that were published in the Neue Lausitzischer Magazin, the Zittauer Geschichtsbl Blätter, the research on the history of Saxony and Bohemia and the Corona Regni. His most important work is the Zittauer Urkundenbuch I, which was published both as a monograph in the communications of the Zittau History and Museum Association and in volumes 113 and 114 of the New Lusatian Magazine . During his work in Prague he worked on the Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris regni Bohemiae .

Honors

  • 1941: Honorary member of the Zittau History and Museum Association

Publications (selection)

  • The population of Leipzig in the period before and after the Reformation , University of Leipzig 1919
  • The scribe and dedication image in German book illumination . Vol. 1: Until the end of the 11th century. Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner 1929
  • Zittauer Urkundenbuch I: Regests on the history of the city and the state of Zittau 1234–1437 , ed. by Joachim Prochno. Görlitz: Strong 1938. In: 1238–1938. 700 years of history in the old town of Zittau . Görlitz (1938), pp. 3–421
  • The archives of the city of Zittau and the sources for the city's history , in: Friedrich Pietsch (Hrsg.), Upper Lusatian contributions. Festschrift for Richard Jecht, Görlitz 1938, pp. 172–183
  • The Prague archives and their significance for the history of Upper Lusatia , in: Research on the history of Saxony and Bohemia, ed. by R. Kötzschke, 1937, pp. 129–140
  • The Bohemian Regional Archives Prague: Its history and holdings . Prague: Dr. d. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1943

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personal data
SURNAME Prochno, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prochno, Jáchym
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Niemegk
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1945
Place of death Prague