Ludwig Clemm

Ludwig Clemm (born May 4, 1893 in Gießen , † April 29, 1975 in Darmstadt ) was a German archivist.

Clemm attended high school in Gießen and then studied history, German and geography at the universities of Gießen , Göttingen and Marburg . There he also became a member of the Göttingen Wingolf . In Marburg he received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis on the property of the Fulda Abbey in Eastern Franconia, in the Rhine-Main area and in southern Germany as a Dr. phil. From May 1921 until his retirement in 1958, he worked in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt , initially as a trainee lawyer, from 1922 as archive assessor, from 1931 as archivist and from May 1937 as archive director.

Clemm did meritorious work in the field of Hessian regional studies and church history. From 1934 to 1949 he was chairman of the Historical Association for Hesse and from 1950 to 1969 of the Historical Commission for Hesse-Darmstadt , and from 1956 to 1965 chairman of the Hessian Church History Association. From 1932 to 1934 he was editor of the journal Volk und Scholle , later editor of the archive for Hessian history and antiquity and from 1954 to 1964 editor of the sources and research on Hessian history (volumes 17-20). He also wrote a large number of smaller works for various regional studies publications, wrote articles for the New German Biography and was still editing several volumes of the repertories of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt in the early 1970s .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of the NDB articles by Ludwig Clemm .

literature

• Eva Haberkorn: Archive history of Darmstadt first hand. From the memories of the archive director Dr. Ludwig Clemm . In: Archive news from Hessen. 16/2, 2016, pp. 30–32.
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Clemm in the catalog of the German National Library