Johannes Schildhauer

Johannes Schildhauer (born November 28, 1918 in Dessau , † April 1, 1995 in Greifswald ) was a German Hanseatic historian and university professor.

Life

Schildhauer attended high school in Dessau and began studying history, German and classical philology at the University of Leipzig in 1938 , which was interrupted by his military service in World War II. In 1945 he first became a new teacher in Dessau. From 1946 to 1948 he studied history and German at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . As a research assistant to Adolf Hofmeister at the Historical Institute, he received his doctorate in 1949 with a dissertation on The Counts of Dassel . From 1952 as a lecturer at the Historical Institute , he completed his habilitation in 1957 with his work on social, political and religious disputes in the Hanseatic cities of Stralsund, Rostock and Wismar.

Schildhauer held the professorship for the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period from 1958 to 1984 and was also director of the Historical Institute of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University from 1964 to 1977. As the leading Hanseatic historian of the GDR, he was a member of the Hanseatic History Association .

Schildhauer had been a member of the SED since 1946 . In 1968 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. On the occasion of his retirement in 1984 he was awarded the honorary title of " Honored University Teacher of the GDR ".

literature

• Schildhauer, Johannes . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography Working Group (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmerls Verlag, Bonn, Hanover, Hamburg, Munich 1965, p. 82.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8676 .
• Manfred Menger : Schildhauer, Johannes (1918–1995) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 238–242.
• Lothar Mertens : Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians. V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-307-9 (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research eV at the TU Dresden. Reports and studies. No. 52)

Web links

• Literature about Johannes Schildhauer in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Johannes Schildhauer in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1968, p. 4