Martin Lintzel

Martin Lintzel (born February 28, 1901 in Magdeburg , † July 15, 1955 in Halle ) was a German historian .

Martin Lintzel was the son of a Protestant clergyman. From 1919 to 1925 he studied history at the University of Halle . During his studies in 1919 he became a member of the Fridericiana Halle singers . His academic teacher was Albert Werminghoff . In 1924 Lintzel received his doctorate with Robert Holtzmann's work The Resolutions of the German Hoftage Days from 911 to 1056 . A year later he passed his state examination. In 1927 he completed his habilitation in the subject of medieval history. In 1931 he represented the vacant chair at the University of Halle, in 1934 he was given a teaching position.

Although he opposed the thesis advocated by the SS and the National Socialist chief ideologist Alfred Rosenberg , that Charlemagne was a "Saxon butcher", he was appointed to the chair of Medieval and Modern History at Kiel University in March 1935 . After conflicts with the Kiel party press and the student body, Lintzel was transferred back to Halle in 1936 to an extraordinary professorship. During the war he was made a full professor. In 1944 he served for two months in a state rifle battalion, but fell ill with depression. His ability to work was restored through treatment at the University Psychiatric Clinic. He taught in Halle for more than ten years until he fell ill with a severe depression again in 1953 through the death of his wife and the suicide of his friend Karl Griewank and committed suicide two years later.

After 1945 Lintzel was elected a full member of the Saxon and German Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Lintzel was also a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and the Scientific Advisory Board at the State Secretariat for Higher Education in the GDR. Lintzel's grave is in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle.

Fonts (selection)

• The creation of the Kurfürstenkolleg , Berlin 1952 (reprint Darmstadt 1967).
• Miscellings on the history of the tenth century , Berlin 1953.
• The imperial policy of Otto the Great , Munich 1943.
• The Teutons on German soil. From the Great Migration to the First Reich , Cologne 1937.
• Charlemagne and Widukind , Hamburg 1935.
• Studies on Liudprand von Cremona , Berlin 1933 (reprinted by Vaduz 1965).
• The Saxon tribal state and its conquest by the Franks , Berlin 1933 (reprint Vaduz 1965).
• The stands of the German people's rights, mainly the Lex Saxonum , Halle 1933.
• The resolutions of the German Hoftage from 911 to 1056 , Berlin 1924.

literature

• Herbert Helbig : Martin Lintzel. In memoriam. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department , Vol. 73 (1956), pp. 562-569.
• Karl Jordan : Nekrolog Martin Lintzel. In: Historische Zeitschrift , vol. 181 (1956), p. 240 f.
• Leo Stern : Martin Lintzel (1901–1955). In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , 3 Jg. (1955), Issue 5, pp. 817–819.
• Walter Zöllner : Karl or Widukind? Martin Lintzel and the Nazi “interpretation of history” in the early years of the fascist dictatorship (= scientific contributions. 1975, 10), University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 1975.
• Walter Zöllner: Martin Lintzel. In: Heinz Heitzer u. a. (Ed.): Pioneers of the GDR historical science. Biographies. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-320-01055-7 , pp. 136-148.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Lintzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Martin Lintzel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Publications by Martin Lintzel in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• History in Halle: Martin Lintzel
• Entry at the University of Kiel

Remarks

1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 203.
2. ↑ On Lintzel's memberships see: Peter Segl: Medieval Research in the History of the GDR. In: Alexander Fischer, Günther Heydemann (ed.): History in the GDR. Vol. 2: Prehistory and Early History to Recent History. Berlin 1990, pp. 99-148, here: p. 101.