Kurt Andermann

Kurt Andermann (born August 15, 1950 in Speyer ) is a German historian and archivist .

Kurt Andermann studied history, German studies, political science and German legal history at the University of Mannheim from 1971/72 to 1977. In 1976/77 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1982 he received his doctorate in Mannheim with a thesis on the history of the Palatine lower nobility in the late Middle Ages, supervised by Fritz Trautz and Ulf Dirlmeier . Since 1978 he has been in the state archive service of the state of Baden-Württemberg. From 1980 to 1982 he attended the Marburg archive school . From 1982 to 2010 he worked in the Baden-Württemberg state and district description. Since 2011 Andermann has been head of the department for old holdings in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe and since 2012/13 interim head of the Hohenlohe Central Archives in Neuenstein . From 1989 to 1999 he held teaching positions at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim. Since 2000 he has been a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg . In 2012 he was made an honorary professor.

His main research interests are southwest German and comparative regional history, the general constitutional and social history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Andermann presented publications on the nobility, serfdom, residences or sovereign cities on the history of Baden, Palatinate and Franconia. Andermann is a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History and the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . In autumn 2015, Andermann and Enno Bünz organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the subject of “Church bailiwick and aristocratic rulership in the European Middle Ages”. The contributions were published in 2019. Andermann earned services in securing and making accessible aristocratic archives, especially from the Kraichgau. Above all, he has made accessible the rich documentary records of the knighthood archives, many of which are still privately owned. Several publications with documentary evidence come from him.

Fonts

Monographs

• Studies on the history of the Palatine lower nobility in the late Middle Ages. A comparative study of selected examples (= series of publications by the Neustadt district group in the Palatinate Historical Society. Vol. 10). Publishing house of the Historical Society of the Palatinate, Speyer 1982.

Editions

• with Franz Maier: The documents of the Freiherrlich von Gemmingen'schen archives of Hornberg Castle over the Neckar. Regesten 1283 to 1845 (= special publications of the Heimatverein Kraichgau eV No. 38). regional culture publisher, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 3-95505-057-2 .
• The oldest land register of the Amorbach monastery from 1395/97 (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series A, Sources. Vol. 62). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-036522-3 .

Editorships

• with Enno Bünz: Church bailiwick and aristocratic rule formation in the European Middle Ages (= lectures and research. Vol. 86). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-6886-9 .
• with Wolfgang Breul : Knighthood and Reformation. (= Publications by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz. Vol. 75), Franz Steiner Verlag, Mainz 2019, ISBN 978-3-515-12258-0 .
• with Sönke Lorenz : Between stagnation and innovation. Local nobility and imperial knighthood in the 17th and 18th centuries (= writings on Southwest German regional studies. Vol. 56). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-5256-1 .
• with Peter Johanek : Between non-nobility and nobility (= lectures and research. Vol. 53). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6653-8 .
• Residences. Aspects of capital city centrality from the early modern period to the end of the monarchy (= Upper Rhine Studies. Vol. 10). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992, ISBN 3-7995-7810-2 .
• Historiography on the Upper Rhine in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period (= Upper Rhine Studies. Vol. 7). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-7807-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Andermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Kurt Andermann in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Andermann at the University of Freiburg