Johannes Papritz

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Johannes Papritz (born April 19, 1898 in Charlottenburg ; † July 20, 1992 in Marburg ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1954 to 1963 he was director of the Marburg Archive School .

Life

Papritz studied history and German at the universities of Berlin and Jena from 1919 to 1922 . In 1922 he was in Berlin with a thesis on Szczecin's trading house of the Loitz in Boisalzhandel the Oder region with special reference to its relations with the Brandenburg Kurhaus doctorate . In the meantime, he began training as an archivist at the Institute for Archival Science of the Prussian Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem . Papritz began his professional career at the Brandenburg-Prussian House Archive in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He temporarily worked at the Prussian State Archives in Danzig , but returned to the Secret State Archives in Berlin in 1929.

From 1936 to 1945 he was in charge of the Berlin-Dahlem Publications Office of the Secret State Archives and was the editor of many of the publications produced there. He also published his own work. He was a close collaborator of Albert Brackmann . Papritz was also the managing director of the North and East German Research Association . Papritz belonged to the SA and became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 .

After the end of the Second World War he found a job at the Marburg State Archives in 1949 and became a lecturer at the Marburg Archive School, which had just been founded . For twenty years - until 1969 - he taught archival science and shaped an entire generation of budding archivists through his teaching. Quite a few of his writings were translated into other languages ​​and are still considered standard literature in German archives today.

“ His name is linked to the Marburg archivist training. Here he developed the analytical character of archival science with new approaches that are still valid today. Combined with the pragmatic approach and the clear objective of creating the best possible usable holdings, the modern instruments of archival indexing emerged from this. "

In 1954 Papritz became director of the Marburg State Archives and thus also director of the Marburg Archive School. He held both functions until he retired in 1963. He was involved in founding the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council in Marburg . He was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research and the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland . He died very old in 1992 at the age of 94.

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Fonts

  • The Stettin trading house of the Loitz in the bois salt trade of the Oder area with special consideration of its relations to the Brandenburg spa house. phil. Diss., Berlin 1932.
  • Archival science. 4 parts, Marburg 1976, 2nd edition 1983.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 449 f.
  2. ↑ Reference on: Archival Science Colloquium 1998 .
personal data
SURNAME Papritz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1992
Place of death Marburg