Klaus Neitmann

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Klaus Neitmann giving a lecture in the Finsterwalde District Museum

Klaus Neitmann (born August 22, 1954 in Minden , Westphalia ) is a German archivist and historian . From 1993 to 2020 he was director of the Brandenburg State Main Archives .

Live and act

Klaus Neitmann was born as the son of August and Hildegard Neitmann, b. Lübbert born. After graduating from high school in 1973 in Minden, he did his basic military service from 1973 to 1974 . From 1974 to 1979 he studied history and Romance studies (French) at the University of Göttingen and graduated in 1979 with a master's degree and in 1983 with the state examination in both subjects. In 1984 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1984 to 1986 he trained as a scientific archivist at the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin and at the Marburg Archive School . From 1986 to 1993 he was archivist at the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage. From 1993 until his retirement on May 1, 2020 (successor is Mario Glauert), he was director of the Brandenburg State Main Archives in Potsdam . In 2008 he completed his habilitation and since then has also been a private lecturer at the University of Potsdam .

Neitmann researches medieval German history , the history of the Teutonic Order as well as Brandenburg and Prussian history. He is co-editor of the journals Preussenland , yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany , sheets for German regional history and editor of the publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Main Archives and Brandenburg Historical Studies . He is chairman of the Brandenburg Historical Commission and a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , the Prussian Historical Commission , the Baltic Historical Commission and the Historical Commission in Berlin .

Neitmann is married and has four children.

Publications

Neitmann has published more than 130 specialist articles in journals and edited volumes as well as the following monographs:

  • Klaus Conrad, Klaus Neitmann, Ernst Manfred Wermter (contrib.); Udo Arnold (Hrsg.): Order, estates and city politics. On the development of Prussia in the 14th and 15th centuries (= publication series Nordost-Archiv , volume 25; = conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , volume 5). Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1985, ISBN 3-922296-30-0 .
  • Klaus Neitmann: The State Treaties of the Teutonic Order in Prussia 1230–1449. Studies on the diplomacy of a late medieval German territorial state (= New Research on Brandenburg-Prussian History , Volume 6). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-412-05185-3 ; at the same time: Dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1983/84.
  • Klaus Neitmann: The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. A ruler on the move. Investigations on the grand master rulers in the 14th and 15th centuries (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property , volume 30). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-412-16789-4 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Kathrin Schröder and Kärstin Weirauch: "Has become the ornament of the country". Lübben (Spreewald) in the mirror of archival sources (= individual publication of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 2). Be.bra-Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937233-28-8 .

as (co-) editor:

  • Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Landtag of the State of Brandenburg 1945–1952 (Ld. Br. Rep. 201) (= finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 1). Brandenburg State Main Archives, Potsdam 1994.
  • Friedrich Beck , Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Brandenburg State History and Archive Studies. Festschrift for Lieselott Enders on her 70th birthday (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive , Volume 34). Böhlau, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-7400-0888-1 .
  • Lieselott Enders , Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Brandenburg State History Today (= Brandenburg Historical Studies , Volume 4). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-930850-72-9 .
  • Klaus Neitmann (Hrsg.): In the service of administration, archival science and Brandenburg regional history. 50 years of the Brandenburg State Main Archive. Contributions to the celebratory event on June 23, 1999 (= sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 8). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-36532-2 .
  • Winfried Meyer, Klaus Neitmann (eds.): Forced labor during the Nazi era in Berlin and Brandenburg. Forms, function, reception (= Library of Brandenburg and Prussian History , Volume 7). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-932981-31-6 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Jürgen Theil (Eds.), Olaf Gründel (Mitw.): The origin of the Brandenburgers. Social and mental history contributions to the population of Brandenburg from the high Middle Ages to the 20th century (= Brandenburg historical studies , Volume 9; = Work of the Uckermärkisches Geschichtsverein zu Prenzlau , Volume 4). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-935035-11-X .
  • Klaus Neitmann (ed.): The Brandenburg urban system in transition to modernity. City bourgeoisie, communal self-government and location factors from Prussian absolutism to the Weimar Republic (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 43). Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8305-0164-1 .
  • Friedrich Beck (author); Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Selected essays from the years 1956–2000. Contributions to the Thuringian and Brandenburg regional history and to the historical auxiliary sciences (= series of publications of the Wilhelm Fraenger Institute Potsdam , Volume 4). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2003, ISBN 3-935035-38-1 .
  • Klaus Neitmann (ed.): From the Brandenburg archival history. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Brandenburg State Main Archives (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 40). BWV, Berliner Wiss.-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8305-0161-7 .
  • Klaus Neitmann (ed.): In the shadow of powerful neighbors. Politics, economy and culture of Lower Lusatia between Bohemia, Saxony and Brandenburg-Prussia (= Brandenburg historical studies , [Volume 5]; = individual publication by the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 3). Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin and Brandenburg 2006, ISBN 3-937233-23-7 .
  • Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): The Brandenburg Ballistic of the Order of St. John. Finding aid for the holdings Rep. 9 B of the Brandenburg State Main Archive (= sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Main Archive , Volume 18). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2006, ISBN 3-631-54985-7 .
  • Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): The first "Day of Brandenburg Local and State History". Documentation of the conference on November 6, 2005 in Potsdam and guidelines for local chronicles in Brandenburg (= individual publications by the Brandenburg Historical Commission , Volume 9; = individual publications by the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Volume 3). Brandenburg State Main Archives, Potsdam 2006.
  • Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann, Winfried Schich a . a. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies , volume 14). Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 .
  • Günter Bayerl , Klaus Neitmann (Hrsg.): Brandenburgs Mittelstand. On the long way from industrialization to the market economy of the 21st century (= Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment , Volume 33; = Individual publications by the Brandenburg Historical Commission , Volume 15). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-2049-6 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Heinz-Dieter Heimann (eds.): Late medieval residencies in the spiritual territories of Central and Northeast Germany (= Studies on Brandenburg and Comparative State History , Volume 2; = Publications of the Museum of Brandenburg Church and Cultural History of the Middle Ages , Volume 3). Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-016-0 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Winfried Schich (ed.): History of the city of Prenzlau (= individual publications of the Brandenburg Historical Commission , Volume 16). Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2009, ISBN 978-3-86595-290-5 .
  • Joachim Müller, Klaus Neitmann, Franz Schopper (eds.): How the Mark came about. 850 years of Mark Brandenburg (= research on archeology in the state of Brandenburg , volume 11; = individual publication by the Brandenburg State Main Archives , volume 9). Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, Wünsdorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-910011-56-4 .
  • Friedrich Beck, Kristina Hübener, Klaus Neitmann, Manfred Görtemaker (eds.): Brandenburg. New old country. Past and present (= Brandenburg historical studies , Volume 15). Be.bra-Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin / Brandenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937233-66-6 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Friedrich Beck (Ed.): Life pictures of Brandenburg archivists and regional historians. be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937233-90-1 .
  • Klaus Neitmann, Ilgvars Misāns : Leonid Arbusow (1882–1951) and the exploration of medieval Livonia . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22214-7 (= sources and studies on Baltic history , volume 24).

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Individual proof

  1. ^ Christian Müller: New director for the Brandenburg State Main Archives . Potsdam Latest News, April 29, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Neitmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden , Westphalia