Joseph Friedrich Abert

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Joseph Friedrich Abert , modernized Josef Friedrich Abert , (born June 11, 1879 in Würzburg , † October 25, 1959 ibid) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Abert was born in Würzburg in 1879 . His uncle was the Archbishop of Bamberg , Friedrich Philipp von Abert . His father Joseph Alois Abert was a furniture manufacturer, magistrate and district administrator. In 1898 Joseph Friedrich Abert graduated and then studied history in Würzburg and Munich . In 1904 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the election capitulations of the Würzburg bishops. He began his career as an archivist as an intern at the Allgemeine Reichsarchiv in Munich (1904). From 1908 to 1910 he was employed at the Graeflich- Schönborn Family Archives in Wiesentheid . In 1910 Abert went to Neuburg an der Donau as Reich Archives Assessor and in 1911 to Würzburg.

Abert served as a lieutenant in the First World War . As a member of the Freikorps Epp he was involved in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic . From 1919 to 1926 he headed the archive of the city of Würzburg and then became head of the Würzburg state archive . In 1928 he was appointed honorary professor. In 1930 he became senior archivist and in 1932 director of the state archives. In Würzburg he was involved in the youth movement reformed college guild Bergfried . He was a member of the SA and the NSDAP .

Abert was homosexual and lived with the film architect Albrecht Becker . In 1935 he was arrested after being denounced for offenses against Section 175 of the Criminal Code and sent to prison. Despite his membership in the SA and NSDAP, his official status was also revoked. He then lived for some time in Rome , where he worked at the German Historical Institute for the Germanicum Repertory . In 1945 he returned to Würzburg, where he died on October 25, 1959.

Commemoration

In the exhibition of the Imperial War Museum in London on the Holocaust , the persecution of Joseph Friedrich Abert and Albrecht Becker is thought of as an example of the persecution of homosexuals in the “ Third Reich ” using some of the documents on display .

Fonts (selection)

  • The election capitulations of the Würzburg bishops up to the end of the 17th century, 1225-1698. Würzburg 1905.
  • From Würzburg's Biedermeier period . Würzburg, 1950.
  • About the patronage of Schönborn . 1950.
  • Würzburg's walk through the centuries . 1951.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address list of the Alder men and old boys of the German Academic Guild, Völpke 1929, page 3
personal data
SURNAME Abert, Joseph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abert, Josef Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1959
Place of death Wurzburg