Karl Heinz Schwebel

Karl Heinz Schwebel

Karl Heinz Schwebel (born September 5, 1911 in Grohn ; † December 15, 1992 in Bremen ) was a German historian and archivist in Bremen.

Life

Karl Heinz Schwebel came from a family of teachers and graduated from the secondary school in Vegesack . He studied history , English and Romance languages at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , the University of Poitiers and the University of Exeter . In 1937 he was in Göttingen with a thesis on the history of Bremen doctorate . He then completed an archivist training in Berlin. Schwebel then came to the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (StAB) during the Second World War , where he was responsible for relocating the most important files for protection against the bombing in 1941 . After the end of the war in 1945 he was also entrusted with the repatriation of these holdings, some of which had long been stored as Soviet booty in the archives of the German Democratic Republic .

As the successor to Friedrich Prüser , Schwebel became director of the Bremen State Archives in 1957 . During his term of office the reorganization of the inventory (1957), the legal regulation of the archiving (1958) and the construction of the state archive on the President-Kennedy-Platz in Mitte (Bremen) (1968) fell. He published a large number of carefully researched works on the history of the city of Bremen , the Hanseatic League and family history . In 1975 he retired. He was succeeded by the historian Hartmut Müller .

Schwebel was a member of numerous historical associations and committees, partly also in board functions. Among other things, he was chairman from 1958 to 1963 and deputy chairman from 1974 to 1982 of the Bremen family research company Die Maus - Gesellschaft für Familienforschung e. V. , whose development he significantly promoted. In the 1960s he was the second chairman of the Bremen Historical Society .

The state archive files that remained in the GDR and were relocated during the war were largely returned to Bremen after German reunification (while Schwebel was still alive).

Publications

State Archives Bremen

• Bremen merchants in the free ports of the Caribbean. From the beginnings of Bremen's overseas trade until 1815. Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-925729-17-8 .
• Salt in old Bremen. Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-925729-13-5 .
• From the diary of the Bremen merchant Franz Böving (1773–1849). Self-published by the Historical Society Bremen, Bremen 1974 ( Bremische Weihnachtsblätter , Issue 15).
• St. Martini between compulsory confession and freedom of belief. In: Wolfgang Wehowsky (Ed.): St. Martini zu Bremen . One congregation and one church through the ages. Krohn, Bremen 1960.
• “ Haus Seefahrt ” Bremen. His merchants and captains. Krohn, Bremen 1947.
• Bremen's relations with the emperor and empire, especially in the 18th century. Geist, Bremen 1937 ( digitized version )

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Herbert Abel (Ed.): Festschrift Karl H. Schwebel. Röver, Bremen 1972, ISBN 3-87681-026-4 ( Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen , vol. 16).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Heinz Schwebel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Bremen State Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Bremen's relations to the emperor and empire, mainly in the 18th century .
2. ↑ The previous board members ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: website of the Die Maus association , Bremen; Retrieved September 2, 2011. 
3. ↑ Günther Thaden: History of the Mouse ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Genealogienetz.de; Retrieved September 2, 2011. 
4. ↑ See Bremen anniversary. Birthday overslept . In: Der Spiegel No. 5/1963 of January 30, 1963, p. 49; Retrieved September 2, 2011.
5. ^ Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 796.