Konrad Fritze

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Konrad Fritze (born August 8, 1930 in Bernburg (Saale) , † January 14, 1991 in Greifswald ) was a German historian .

Life

His father Richard Fritze (* 1887; † 1950) was a grammar school director and in 1949 became the first director of the workers and farmers faculty in Greifswald.

Konrad Fritze grew up in Greifswald. Here he attended the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Oberschule until 1949 . In 1949 he joined the SED . He first studied three semesters in Berlin, then from 1951 history at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . He then worked here as a historian in assistant and lecturer positions. Fritze began his dissertation, completed in 1957, on "The economic and social development of Stralsund in the 13th and 14th centuries" under Adolf Hofmeister . He then qualified as a professor with "Studies on the economic and social history of Wendish Hanseatic cities in the first half of the 15th century", published in 1967 under the title "At the turning point of the Hanseatic League".

In 1969 he became a full professor of general history in Greifswald. From 1977 to 1982 and again from 1990 until his death he was director of the Historical Institute in Greifswald.

Fritze published numerous writings on the history of the city and the history of the Hanseatic League . Together with his Greifswald colleagues Johannes Schildhauer and Walter Stark , he published the book “Die Hanse”, which appeared in seven editions from 1974 to 1985 and was the standard work of Marxist historical research on Hanseatic history. He was a member of the editorial board of the yearbook for regional history and the yearbook for the history of feudalism .

Fritze was married and had two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Hanseatic city of Stralsund. The first two centuries of its history. (= Publications of the Stralsund City Archives. Volume 4). Petermänken, Schwerin 1961.
  • At the turning point of the Hanseatic League. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967 (habilitation thesis).
  • with Johannes Schildhauer and Walter Stark : The Hanse . 1st edition. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
  • Citizens and farmers during the Hanseatic era. Böhlau, Weimar 1976.
  • with Günter Krause: Sea Wars of the Hanseatic League . 1st edition. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1989.

literature

  • Fritze, Konrad . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography Working Group (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmerls Verlag, Bonn, Hanover, Hamburg, Munich 1965, p. 31.
  • Detlef Kattinger, Horst Wernicke , Ralf-Gunnar Werlich (eds.): Actors and opponents of the Hanseatic League. On the prosopography of the Hanseatic era. Hanseatic Studies IX. (= Treatises on trade and social history. Volume 30. Konrad-Fritze-Gedächtnisschrift ). Herrmann Boehlaus Nachf., 1998, pp. 405–416 (with portrait photo and list of publications).
  • Evamaria Engel : Fritze, Konrad (1930–1991) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 108-112.

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personal data
SURNAME Fritze, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1991
Place of death Greifswald