Karl-Friedrich Krieger

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Karl-Friedrich Krieger (born September 5, 1940 in Berlin ; † January 26, 2020 ) was a German historian .

Karl-Friedrich Krieger studied history and law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1962 to 1966 . He passed his first state examination in law in 1966. In 1966/67 he undertook a study and research stay as a scholarship holder of the French government. In 1968, Krieger received his doctorate in Kiel with a thesis on the origins and roots of the Rôles d'Oléron , supervised by Karl Jordan . Kriegers habilitation took place in 1976 at the University of Regensburg with a thesis on the feudal system in the late Middle Ages . Since 1982, Krieger has been teaching as the successor to Fritz Trautz as a full professor of medieval history at the University of Mannheim . He gave his inaugural lecture in June 1983 on the "Trial of Count Palatine Friedrich the Victorious at the Augsburg Reichstag in 1474". He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical Institute in London . Krieger retired in the summer of 2005. Franz Fuchs , Christine Reinle and Sabine von Heusinger were among his most important academic students .

In his dissertation on the origin of the Western European maritime law record, Krieger does not date it to the 12th century, but considers a point in time for "hardly a long time before 1286" to be probable. According to Krieger, the codification did not “create new law”, but only put long-practiced law into writing. With his habilitation, he made a fundamental contribution to research into the late medieval feudal system.

Krieger's research on the late medieval constitutional history provided a better understanding and a more positive judgment of the long reign of Frederick III. For the series Encyclopedia of German History he published the depiction of the king, kingdom and imperial reform in the late Middle Ages . For the handbook Schlaglichter der Deutschen Geschichte (Mannheim 1986) he wrote the chapter on the late Middle Ages. In 1994 he presented a relevant overview of the Habsburg dynasty in the Middle Ages, the second edition of which appeared in 2004. The reigns of Rudolf von Habsburg and Friedrich III take up a lot of space in the depiction . a. One hundred years after the publication of Oswald Redlich's comprehensive biography on Rudolf von Habsburg, in 2003 Krieger presented a new biography of the first Habsburg to sit on the Roman-German royal throne.

In 1990, Krieger published the first volume on the history of England from the beginnings to the 15th century on the history of England in three volumes . The fifth edition of this first volume was published in 2018. In July 2005, an international conference in honor of Kriegers took place in Mannheim. The Festschrift for the Mannheim medievalist with contributions by historians from five European countries on the imperial history of the 15th century was published in 2009.

In the last years of his life, Krieger suffered from Alzheimer's disease . He died in January 2020 after a serious illness at the age of 79. He was buried in the Mannheim-Neckarau cemetery.

Fonts

  • History of England from the Beginning to the 15th Century. 5th edition. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 3-406-72824-3 .
  • Rudolf of Habsburg. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-13711-6 .
  • The Habsburgs in the Middle Ages. From Rudolf I to Friedrich III. 2nd updated edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-018228-5 .
  • King, Empire and Imperial Reform in the Late Middle Ages (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 14). Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55788-2 .
  • The feudal sovereignty of the German kings in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1200–1437) (= studies on German state and legal history. NF, Volume 23). Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1979 (at the same time: Regensburg, University, habilitation paper, 1976/77).
  • Origins and roots of the Rôles d'Oléron (= sources and representations on Hanseatic history. NF, Volume 15). Böhlau, Kiel et al. 1970, ISBN 3-412-25870-9 (at the same time: Kiel, University, dissertation, 1968).

literature

  • Krieger, Karl-Friedrich. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 2: H - L. 26th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030257-8 , p. 1980.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. L. Edition 2011/2012, p. 648.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Karl-Friedrich Krieger: The trial of Count Palatine Friedrich the Victorious at the Augsburg Reichstag from 1474. In: Journal for historical research 12, 1985, pp. 257-286.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Jürgen Bolland in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 58, 1972, p. 143. ( online ); Erich Wisplinghoff in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 61, 1974, pp. 276–277; Hartmut Böttcher in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 29, 1973, pp. 300–301 ( online ).
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Werner Goez in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 41, 1985, pp. 294–296 ( online ); Heinz Lieberich in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , German Department 99, 1982, pp. 339–341.
  4. ↑ See the review by Jean-Marie Moeglin in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 50, 1994, pp. 319-320 ( online ).
  5. ↑ See the reviews of Reinhard Stauber in: Historisches Jahrbuch 116, 1996, pp. 206-208; Claudia Märtl in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 52, 1996, p. 728 ( online ).
  6. ↑ See the reviews of Wolfgang Stürner in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 64, 2005, pp. 463–464; Mathias Kälble in: sehepunkte 4, 2004, No. 12 [15. December 2004], ( online ); Franz-Reiner Erkens in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 60, 2004, pp. 364–365 ( online ).
  7. ^ Franz Fuchs , Paul-Joachim Heinig and Jörg Schwarz (eds.): King, Prince and Empire in the 15th century. Cologne 2009.
  8. ↑ Meena Stavesand: Just do instead of long discussions In: Mannheimer Morgen . November 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Obituary for Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Krieger , University of Mannheim, January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Krieger, Karl-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2020