Kurt Forstreuter

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Kurt Forstreuter

Kurt Hermann Forstreuter (born February 8, 1897 in Weedern, Ragnit district , East Prussia , † February 28, 1979 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and archivist.

Life

As a descendant of Salzburg exiles , Forstreuter attended the Tilsiter secondary school . After graduating from high school, he studied German and history at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1916 . After taking part in the First World War , he continued it in 1919 at the Albertina and from 1920 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . With a doctoral thesis with Julius Petersen , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

Since the library service was closed to him, he completed the preparatory course of the Prussian archive administration in Berlin-Dahlem after the philological state examination from 1925 . In 1927 he began his service as an archivist at the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg . It was only possible to move from the cramped accommodation in Königsberg Castle to the new building on Hansaring in 1930. Appointed to the State Archives Council in 1931, he became the mainstay of the archive alongside archive director Max Hein . Regionally responsible for eastern East Prussia , he recorded the holdings of the Königsberg War and Domain Chamber and the Gumbinnen government . He also played a key role in the organization and listing of the central files, the Budget Ministry ( Duchy of Prussia ). He was reluctant to participate in the Germanization of East Prussian place names (1938). He learned Polish , Russian and a little Lithuanian .

Released from Yugoslav captivity in 1946 , he came to Berlin via Leipzig . In 1947 he began to build a new existence in the main archive, which later became the secret state archive of Prussian cultural property. He became the well-known historian of the Teutonic Order from 1952 when he began to look after the Königsberg archives in Goslar. From 1953 until his death he was in charge of the state archive warehouse in Göttingen and researched the history of the order in Italy and the rest of the Mediterranean. Even after his retirement (1962), he was always helpful to younger colleagues and archive users.

Forstreuter was an employee of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . With Fritz Gause he edited their newsletter Preußenland (1963–1973). Also with him he brought the Old Prussian biography to a preliminary conclusion (Vol. 3, 1975). His manuscript on German cultural policy in Prussian Lithuania, suggested by Albert Brackmann, is one of the war losses . A collection of material on the end of the Teutonic Order State was also lost . Although only a memorial transcript, from the orderly state to the principality attained even greater scientific importance.

Publications

  • The Memel as Prussia's trade route to the east . Gräfe & Unzer, Koenigsberg / Pr. 1931.
  • Gräfe and Unzer. Two centuries of book trade in Königsberg . Gräfe & Unzer, Koenigsberg / Pr. 1932.
  • Prussia and Russia in the Middle Ages. The development of their relationships from the 13th to 17th centuries . Ost-Europa-Verlag, Königsberg / Pr. / Berlin 1938.
  • Memelland . Prussian publishing house, Elbing 1939.
  • From the religious state to the principality. Spiritual and political changes in the Teutonic Order State of Prussia under the Grand Masters Friedrich and Albrecht. 1498-1525 . Holzner, Kitzingen 1951.
  • The Prussian State Archives in Königsberg. A historical review with an overview of its holdings . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1955.
  • Germany and Lithuania in the Middle Ages . (= Studies on Germanness in the East. Booklet. 1). Böhlau publishing house, Cologne 1962.
  • The German Order on the Mediterranean . (= Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order , Vol. 2). Scientific Archive Publishing House, Bonn 1967.
  • The end of the Koenigsberger Hartungschen newspaper. Holzner-Verlag, Würzburg 1968.
  • with Hans Koeppen : The reports of the General Procurators of the Teutonic Order to the Curia . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen and Böhlau, Cologne.
    • Vol. 1: The history of the General Procurators from the beginning to 1403 . 1961.
    • Vol. 2: Peter von Wormditt (1403-1419) . 1960.
    • Vol. 3: Johann Tiergart (1419–1428)
      • First half volume: 1419–1423 . 1966.
      • Second half volume: 1424–1428 . 1971.
    • Vol. 4: 1429-1436
      • First half volume: 1429–1432 . 1973.
      • Second half volume: 1433–1436 . 1976.
  • Weedern. Memory of a place . Self-published, Göttingen 1968.
  • Realgymnasium and Oberrealschule in Tilsit . Reprint from: Tilsit-Ragnit, Stadt und Landkreis, an East Prussian homeland book. Holzner Verlag, Würzburg 1971.
  • Effects of the Prussia. Forty articles (= studies on the history of Prussia , vol. 33). Grote, Cologne / Berlin 1981 (including complete bibliography of his publications).

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References and comments

  1. Russian after 1945 Talniki in Krasnoznamensky District (no longer exists).
  2. Dissertation: History and technology of German first-person narration. A study on its history and technology (= Germanic Studies, Vol. 33). Ebering, Berlin 1924.
  3. a b c Kurt Forstreuter (Kulturportal West-Ost) .
  4. Communication from Bernhart Jähnig (2014).