Josef Hartmann (historian)

Josef Hartmann (born August 11, 1934 in Niederorschel ) is a German archivist and historian . From 1990 to 1999 he was the chief archive director of the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Hartmann comes from Eichsfeld and studied history at the University of Jena from 1953 to 1957 . He then attended the Institute for Archival Science in Potsdam, which he graduated as a qualified archivist. After working as a research assistant at this institute until 1960, he got a job as a research archivist at the State Archives (later State Archives ) in Magdeburg . In the same year he took up a teaching position in the archive science department of the history section at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he taught until 1994.

In 1962 Josef Hartmann was at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with the dissertation The Electoral Mainz Offices of the Middle and Upper Eichsfeld. Study of the administration, population development and social structure of a clerical principality for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1990 he was significantly involved in the re-establishment of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt , of which he is still a member today. In the same year he took over the management of the State Archives Magdeburg, which was renamed the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt and in 1993 the State Archives Magdeburg - State Main Archives. Josef Hartmann retired in 1999 at the age of 65.

Works (selection)

• An Elbe-Eastphalian fragment of the Sachsenspiegel , in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Germ. Abt. 82 [95] (1965), pp. 291-298.
• Archival Science Course Letter , Part 1 and Part 2, Potsdam 1976.
• with Rudolf Engelhardt: Magdeburg State Archives 1949–1979. In: Archive messages . Journal for Theory and Practice of Archives, Issue 2 (1979), pp. 43–48.
• with Rudolf Engelhardt and Wolfgang Hassel: The State Archives Magdeburg 1979–1989. In: Archive messages. Journal for Theory and Practice of Archives, Issue 4 (1989), pp. 110–113.
• Document book of the monastery S [ank] t Johann bei Halberstadt, 1119 / 23–1804 , edit . by Adolf Diestelkamp . Completed u. ed. by Rudolf Engelhardt and Josef Hartmann, Weimar 1989 (= sources on the history of Saxony-Anhalt, 9).
• The archival situation in the new states of the Federal Republic of Germany. From the perspective of the state archives of the federal states , in: Der Archivar 46, 1993, Sp. 39–41.
• Official books . In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): The archival sources. An introduction to their use , 2nd edition, Weimar 1994 (publications from the Brandenburg State Main Archives 29), pp. 86–98.
• In memory of Dr. Charlotte boy. In: Saxony and Anhalt. 18: 607-611 (1994).
• On the death of Hanns Gringmuth-Dallmer . In: Saxony and Anhalt. Yearbook of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 22 (1999/2000), pp. 419–423.
• 125 years of the Historical Commission 1876–2001 . In: Saxony and Anhalt. Yearbook of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 23 (2001), pp. 9–52.

literature

• Association of German Archivists : Directory of Members , Münster 1997, p. 92.