Manfred von Boetticher

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Manfred von Boetticher (2007)

Manfred von Boetticher (* 1947 ) is a German archivist , historian and author . He was head of the main state archive in Hanover and is a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , board member of the Baltic Historical Commission and the Latvian-German cultural association Domus Rigensis . As an archivist of the Association of the Baltic Knighthoods, he is in charge of their archives at the Herder Institute in Marburg. He is the author of numerous publications, particularly on the history of Lower Saxony. After his retirement, von Boetticher was a visiting professor at the Latvian University in Riga from 2013 to 2017 .

Life

Von Boetticher studied history and Russian at the University of Göttingen , where he passed the state examination. He received his doctorate with a thesis on industrialization policy and defense conception of the USSR 1926–1930 .

After attending the archive school in Marburg , he worked at the main state archive in Hanover from 1980 until his retirement on February 28, 2013, and took over its management in 2001. From 2002 to 2013 he was Ltd. Archive director. He dealt in particular with the medieval and early modern history of Lower Saxony as well as the edition of Latin and Middle Low German documents. For several years he was responsible for the introduction of the EDP, first in the main state archive in Hanover, and later also in the other state archives of Lower Saxony. As a larger project, he oversaw the computerized recording of the files of the British military government , which was completed in 1993 with the printing of a twelve-volume work. In 1992/1993 he carried out an extensive archive exhibition in Moscow, Hanover and St. Petersburg together with Russian colleagues on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery.

In addition to his official work, he took on numerous teaching duties - first in archival studies for librarians at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, then several times in archival studies and IT at the archive school in Marburg. For several years he held teaching positions at the history seminar of the University of Hanover, which related to questions about agricultural history and the development of manorial rule in Europe in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. In addition, he organized palaeographic exercises with handwritten texts from the 16th to the 20th century.

Works (selection)

  • Industrialization Policy and Defense Concept of the USSR 1926–1930. Formation of Stalinism and "external threat" , Düsseldorf 1979.
  • Document book of the Mariengarten monastery (= Göttingen-Grubenhagener document book , 2nd section), Hildesheim 1978.
  • Mariengarten monastery and manor. Development and change of a church property complex in southern Lower Saxony from the 13th to the 19th century , Hildesheim: Lax 1989.
  • Free counties in central Lower Saxony , Hanover: Hahn, 1992.
  • Rossiya i zapad. Svjazi čerez vremena. Otnošenija s Nižnej Saksoniej 1493–1796 vs. catalog vystavki. - Russia and the West. Relationships through three centuries. The example of Lower Saxony, 1493–1796 , together with Svetlana R. Dolgova, Hanover 1993.
  • Russia and Northwest Germany , in: Lew Kopelew / Karl-Heinz Korn / Rainer Sprung: German-Russian Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment (18th Century) , Cologne 1997, pp. 177–185.
  • History of Lower Saxony , Vol. 3, Part 1: Politics, economy and society from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Christine van den Heuvel and Manfred von Boetticher, Hanover 1998 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , 36).
  • Brunswick princes in Russia in the first half of the 18th century , ed. from the Federal Archives Service of Russia, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.
  • Document book of Hilwartshausen Abbey , Hanover: Hahn, 2001 (= Göttingen-Grubenhagener document book , 4).
  • Man and the environment - regional areas of tension in the Middle Ages and modern times , with Hans-Wilhelm Eckhardt, Hanover: Schroedel, 2003.
  • Archives in the Hanover region , ed. by Manfred von Boetticher, Karljosef Kreter and Hans Otte, 4th edition, Hannover: Hauptstaatsarchiv, 2004.
  • An infant on the throne of the tsar. Brunswick Princes in Russia , in: Landesgeschichte im Landtag , ed. by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2007, pp. 301–304.
  • Dominion and the medieval coal and steel industry. Mining in Bohemia, the Ore Mountains and the Harz Mountains and its interactions , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 80, 2008, pp. 1–14.
  • Handouts for the preparation of document books as part of the publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 81, 2009, pp. 425–436.
  • The "Era Albrecht" (1976–1990) , in: History of Lower Saxony , Vol. 5: From the Weimar Republic to Reunification , ed. by Gerd Steinwascher, Hannover 2010, pp. 737–806.
  • Ljudvikas Reza kak rukovoditel 'Litovskogo seminara v Kënigsbergskom universitete, in: Kul'turnoe nesledie Vostočnoj Prussii , Kaliningrad 2011, pp. 136–142.
  • From the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen to the creation of the General Hanover Monastery Fund , in: Duchess Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1510–1558). Dominion - Confession - Culture , Hanover 2011, pp. 248–258.
  • The Guelph fiefdoms exspectances on the county of Lippe , in: Axel Halle et al. (Ed.): The historical heritage in the region. Festschrift for Detlev Hellfaier , Bielefeld 2013, pp. 239–251.
  • The integration of the Loccum monastery into the Principality of Calenberg , in: Horst Hirschler, Hans Otte, Christian Stäblein (eds.): Keep your word - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Festschrift for the 850th anniversary of the Loccum Monastery , Göttingen 2013, pp. 163–175.
  • The beginning of the mining industry in the Urals and the participation of German miners - technology transfer from the Harz , in: Arnd Reitemeier , Ohainski (ed.): From the south of the north. Studies on the history of Lower Saxony for Peter Aufgebauer on his 65th birthday , Bielefeld 2013, pp. 23–31.

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