Mario Krammer

Mario Krammer (born July 11, 1880 in Berlin ; † February 15, 1953 there ) was a German historian .

Life

After attending grammar school, Krammer studied history from 1899 at the Berlin University and in the meantime at the University of Marburg . He specialized in medieval constitutional and legal history . He joined Karl Zeumer , who researched German constitutional history. In his dissertation he dealt with the history of the Electoral College ; then Zeumer placed him as an employee at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , where he was responsible for editing the sources on older German history.

Krammer worked for the Monumenta on the publication of the Lex Salica . With regard to the transmission history of this source, he took a view that fundamentally differed from previous research and that he used as the basis for the planned publication. On the other hand, the archivist and legal historian Bruno Krusch as a member of the central management of the MGH vehemently objected. A review by several expert reports led to the withdrawal of the already completed edition by the central management in 1915. The books that had already been printed were crushed with the exception of a few specimen copies for the MGH library. Krammer worked as editor of the New Archives of the Society for Older German History from mid-1923 and looked after the MGH library located in the building of the Prussian State Library. Shortly before, Otto von Holten published a book about Theodor Fontane , with which Krammer entered the field of cultural history . Three years later, the similar work appeared, The Rebirth by Lagarde . In 1924 he was appointed a councilor, but then quit his job to live as a freelance writer. In 1935 he published Berlin and the Reich (2nd edition udT Berlin in the course of the centuries ). Since he was excluded from the " Reichsschrifttumskammer ", the letters he edited from the Germans from a millennium in 1943 could not appear under his name. After the end of National Socialism , he took part in the reconstruction of the adult education center in Charlottenburg , where from then on he regularly gave courses. He tried to position himself as a representative of the German cultural nation, for example through his contribution to the anthology Helden ohne Waffen by Günther Birkenfeld (1947) on Giordano Bruno, Galilei, Keppler and through numerous contributions to the Berlin Yearbook . Shortly before his death he took part in a commemorative publication for the "Congress of Teachers and Educators", which was held in Berlin in 1952.

Publications

• unpublished: Legis Salicae textus A - C Textus / [Edidit Mario Krammer]. Hannoverae:: Hahn [1915], 162 pp. ([Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Leges. 1, Leges nationum Germanicarum]. Legum sectio I, Leges nationum Germanicarum; 4) digital copy of the MGH library
• Alexander von Humboldt. Man, time, work. Volksverband der Buchfreunde - Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1951.
• Berlin through the centuries. A cultural history of the German capital. Supplemented by Paul Fechter . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1956.
• Berlin and the Reich. The history of the imperial capital. Ullstein, Berlin 1935.
• German letters from a millennium (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 8226/32, ZDB ID 134899-1 ). Compiled and explained. Edited by Hermann Kunisch in a modified and expanded form . Reclam, Stuttgart 1958.
• The intellectual and political Berlin . Festschrift. [To the Congress of Teachers and Educators Berlin 1952]. Editor: Wilhelm Jung. Two-tone print, with linocuts by Helmut Richter. Contributions by Ernst Reuter, Joachim Tiburtius, Mario Krammer, Paul Fechter, Hans Brennert, Ernst Lemmer, Louise Schroeder, Georg Zivier and others. a. Berlin 1952.
• The Kurfürstenkolleg from its beginnings to the merger in the Renser Kurverein of the year 1338 (= sources and studies on the constitutional history of the German Empire in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Vol. 5, H. 1, ISSN  0863-0836 ). Böhlau, Weimar 1913.
• Cultural history as a task of time. Considerations from the workshop of a historian (= series of publications for adult education centers. H. 3, ZDB -ID 530048-4 ). Pedagogical Publishing House, Berlin a. a. 1949.
• The imperial concept of the Hohenstaufen imperial family. A contribution to the state and intellectual history of the Middle Ages (= investigations into German state and legal history. Vol. 95, ISSN  0083-4572 ). Marcus, Breslau 1908.
• Theodor Fontane. O. v. Holten, Berlin 1922.
• Editing: Sources on the history of the German royal election and the Kurfürstenkolleg. 2 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig a. a. 1911;
  • Volume 1: On the development of the royal election from the Xth to the XIII. Century.
  • Volume 2: King's election and electoral college from Rudolf von Habsburg to the Golden Bull.

literature

• Ernst Kaeber: To Mario Krammer's memory. In: 1953 yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. ISSN  0174-9366 , pp. 9-18 mgh-bibliothek.de (PDF).

Web links

• Publications by Mario Krammer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Portrait of Krammer