Karl Friedrich Leonhardt

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Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (born March 11, 1882 in Linden ; † June 15, 1940 in Hanover ) was a German archivist , historian , author and director of the Hanover City Archives .

Leonhardt is still considered to be the best expert on the Hanoverian topography and the Hanover genealogy . He founded the new series (NF) of the Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter (HG) and was chairman of the heraldic association "Zum Kleeblatt" , the association that supports the Lower Saxony coat of arms .

family

City map of Hanover as a sketch "Hanover in the Middle Ages ";
1924 by Karl Friedrich Leonhardt in his article "Streets and houses in old Hanover" in the Hanover history sheets

Karl Friedrich Leonhardt was the great-grandson of the publisher Friedrich Bernhard Culemann and the grandson of the entrepreneur, politician and art collector Friedrich Culemann . He was the son of Karl-Moritz Leonhardt, a businessman who worked for Lindener Mechanischen Weberei , who took over the Culemann'sche printing company, which was founded in 1799, from his late father-in-law in 1886.

Career

“Surroundings of the old town of Hanover”, city ​​map of Hanover with the streets and important buildings from around 1300 to 1900

Karl Friedrich Leonhardt graduated from Lyceum I ( Ratsgymnasium ) in Hanover in 1901 with the Abitur. After initially studying law, he switched to history, archeology and art history in Göttingen , Berlin , Leipzig and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in 1912 .

From autumn 1919 Leonhardt initially worked in his father's company and in 1923 became its commercial director.

Under the chief editor Paul Siedentopf , Leonhard compiled the image material for The Book of the Old Companies of the City of Hanover in 1927 , which was published by the anniversary publisher Walter Gerlach in Leipzig.

As the successor to Otto Jürgens , Leonhardt became head of the Hanover City Archives on April 1, 1929, and was appointed archive director on June 15 of that year.

Among other things, Leonhardt created a map as an excerpt from the city ​​map of Hanover , reduced to the area around the old town and the Calenberger Neustadt with the historical streets from 1300 and - highlighted by red drawings - the streets and important building outlines around 1900.

Publications

  • Edition of the oldest citizen book " Liber burgensium " (1301–1549) of the City of Hanover (1933) as an introduction to the " Sources and representations of the population of the City of Hanover "
  • Streets and houses in old Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 27 (1924) and 29 (1926)
  • Maps on the development history of the city of Hanover , 1933 (as a delivery to the Lower Saxony City Atlas )
  • The beginnings of Hanover and the Calenberger Neustadt . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 30 (1927)
  • Hanover's population 500 years ago , in HG NF 4 (1937)
  • The geological and geographical development of the suburb of Hanover. In: HG NF (special issue 1941)

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Friedrich Leonhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thielen in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 119f.
  2. ↑ Compare for example the authorship given on the map excerpt in Eva Domeyer, Dana Domeyer (Red.): Die Standarten der Stadt Hannover , in this: Hannoversche Schützenzeitung. Fixed edition for the 486th Shooting Festival , Hanover: timeless Verlag GmbH, 2015, p. 18
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 402
personal data
SURNAME Leonhardt, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist, historian and author, director of the Hannover City Archives
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden trees
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1940
Place of death Hanover