Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt

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Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (born October 5, 1948 in Elmshorn ; † August 30, 2015 in Rostock ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1989 to 2013 he was an archivist at the Hamburg State Archives .

Live and act

Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt - son of a surveyor and surveyor - attended the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Elmshorn from 1959 to 1967 . After military service in Oldenburg and Idar-Oberstein in 1967/68 , he studied history, sociology and prehistory at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1974 . In 1974 the master's degree in prehistory followed with a thesis on the social behavior of earlier groups of people. In Hamburg he was awarded a doctorate in 1979 with a thesis supervised by Rainer Wohlfeil on the social and economic structure of Schleswig-Holstein regional cities between 1500 and 1550. phil. PhD. After completing his studies, Lorenzen-Schmidt worked as a freelance historian for various clients for ten years. He received several orders to write village and parish stories. From 1987 to 1989 he attended the archive school in Marburg . From 1989 to December 31, 2013 he worked as an archivist at the Hamburg State Archives .

Lorenzen-Schmidt was a co-founder of the Working Group for Economic and Social History in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1978 to 1986 he was the secretary of the working group. In this capacity he published its newsletters. From 1989 to 2013 Lorenzen-Schmidt was the spokesman for the working group, for which he edited several edited volumes. He had been a member of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History since his student days, was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board from 1978 to 1994 and was its spokesman from 2007 to 2011. In addition, until March 2013 he was chairman of the Detlefsen Society, which deals with the history of Glückstadt and the Elbmarschen. In 2014 Lorenzen-Schmidt was elected honorary chairman of the Detlefsen Society. He was a lecturer at the History Department of the University of Hamburg .

His fields of work included the history of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, in particular the city, agricultural, social and economic history. With his dissertation, he presented a fundamental study of the structural history of Schleswig-Holstein cities. He dealt with the historical question of the extent to which the concept of the " early bourgeois revolution " pursued in GDR history can be proven in the cities of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. He undertook extensive archive studies in Rendsburg, Kiel, Krempe and Schleswig. His investigation could not further substantiate this thesis. In the late 1970s, he campaigned against the construction of the Brokdorf nuclear power plant on the Elbe as an opponent of nuclear power . This brought him into contact with many farmers in the Elbmarschen. In this way, sources opened up to him that were still stored on some farms and reached back to the early modern period. In 1987 he published a study of the rural family structures in the northwest German coastal region from 1750 to 1870. He was also an editor of source editions; the prosopography of the late medieval clergy in Schleswig-Holstein had been added since 2000 . Lorenzen-Schmidt was the founder and from 1979 to 1989 long-time editor of the journal Archive for Agricultural History of the Holstein Elbmarschen . Together with Bjørn Poulsen , he published an anthology in 1992 on the subject of peasant cover books as sources on economic history. With Ortwin Pelc he edited the Schleswig-Holstein Lexicon . He wrote 500 articles for the lexicon. He wrote three chapters for the history of Schleswig-Holstein , edited by Ulrich Lange . He also published the much-used tool Kleines Lexikon old Schleswig-Holstein weights, measures and currency units .

Lorenzen-Schmidt married a historian in 2006 who is the managing director of the Rostock history workshop. After his retirement he moved to live with her in Rostock. He died there in 2015 of cancer.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The social and economic structure of Schleswig-Holstein regional cities between 1500 and 1550. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1980, ISBN 3-529-02176-8 .
  • Rural family structures in the northwest German coastal region 1750–1870. Engelbrecht Wilderness 1987.
  • Small lexicon of old Schleswig-Holstein weights, measures and currency units. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1990, ISBN 3-529-02713-8 .
  • Lexicon of historical professions in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. Working group for economic and social history Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1996, ISBN 3-9805356-0-6
  • The records of the Wewelsflether parish bailiff Daniel Lubbeke from the years (1469–) 1599–1609 (= sources on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 1). Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-529-05800-9 .

Editorships

  • Archive for Agricultural History of the Holstein Elbe Marshes 1979–1989 (digital copies)
  • Franklin Kopitzsch , Heide Wunder : Studies on the social history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Self-published, Hamburg 1977.
  • Horses for Europe. Horse dealer Johann Ahsbahs & Co, Steinburg 1830–1840. Working group for economic and social history of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1991.
  • The Kremper town book 1488–1602. Working group for economic and social history Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1998, ISBN 3-9805356-5-7 .
  • Money and Credit in the History of Northern Germany. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02943-2 .
  • with Ortwin Pelc: Schleswig-Holstein Lexicon. 2nd, expanded and improved edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster, 2006, ISBN 3-529-02441-4 .
  • with Enno Bünz : clergy, church, piety in late medieval Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02941-6
  • with Anja Meesenburg: pastors, nuns, monks. Contributions to the late medieval prosopography of clerics in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2011, ISBN 978-3-529-02949-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Peter Gabrielsson in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 68 (1982), pp. 233–234 ( online )
  2. ↑ Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ingwer Ernst Momsen: The emergence of the working group for economic and social history Schleswig-Holstein 25 years ago. In: Rundbrief , No. 87 (2003), pp. 34-43 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Enno Bünz: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (1948–2015). In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 151 (2017), pp. 681–685, here: p. 682.
  4. ↑ See the review by Friedrich-Wilhelm Schaer in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 62 (1990), pp. 377–378 ( online ).
  5. ↑ See the review by Peter Gabrielsson in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 87 (2001), pp. 206–208 ( online )
  6. ↑ Enno Bünz: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (1948–2015). In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 151 (2017), pp. 681–685, here: p. 685.
personal data
SURNAME Lorenzen-Schmidt, Klaus-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2015
Place of death Rostock