Martin Wehrmann

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Martin Wehrmann

Martin Wehrmann (born June 16, 1861 in Stettin , † September 29, 1937 in Stargard in Pomerania ) was a German historian and high school teacher. His work on the history of Pomerania is still considered fundamental today.

Life

Martin Wehrmann was born in Stettin as the son of the Provincial School Board Theodor Wehrmann . He studied classical philology and history from 1879 to 1882, first at the University of Leipzig , where he joined the Leipzig fraternity Germania , then at the University of Berlin as well as at the University of Greifswald and the University of Halle , where he became a member of the Fridericiana choir in 1879 and 1882 Dr. phil. PhD. Then he took up the profession of high school teacher. First he became a teacher at the Francke Foundations in Halle. In 1884 he went back to “his hometown” Stettin, where he became a senior teacher at the traditional Marienstiftsgymnasium . In April 1912 he became director of the grammar school in Greifenberg and in October 1921 director of the grammar school in Stargard . In Stargard, where he had retired in 1926, lived until his death in 1937.

Wehrmann researched and wrote about the history of Pomerania ; his work is still considered fundamental today. His research led him to Rome , where he consulted documents relating to Pomerania in the archives of the Vatican. His two main works, the history of the city of Stettin (1911) and the two-volume history of Pomerania (2nd edition 1920-21), were reprinted several times from the 1980s onwards. In addition to other individual writings, Wehrmann wrote a large number of articles, especially for the Baltic Studies and the Pomeranian Yearbooks . He did not live to see the printing of his last published work, the Genealogy of the Pomeranian Ducal House (1937); Today this work is "generally recognized as a reference work" The publication of a biography of Duke Bogislaw that he was still preparing for printing . X was prevented by the outbreak of war and the manuscript was lost.

In 1886 he was elected a board member of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology . Between 1887 and 1912 he edited the yearbook Baltic Studies of the Society together with Emil Walter . He was also editor-in-chief of the association's own monthly newspaper of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology and co-editor of the Pomeranian Life Pictures . It is essentially due to Wehrmann's initiative that the Pomeranian provincial authorities set up the Historical Commission for Pomerania in 1910 .

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Society for Pomeranian History dedicated the exhibition “Significant Pomeranians from five centuries” to him from November 18 to December 14, 1961 in the Berlin-Charlottenburg town hall . The exhibition catalog compiled by Immanuel Meyer-Pyritz shows a relief portrait of Martin Wehrmann on a plaque.

Martin Wehrmann's estate is stored in the Stettin State Archives .

Fonts

Font directories

  • Hans Bellée : The work of Martin Wehrmann in chronological order. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 33 NF (1931), pp. 274-321. ( Digitized version )
  • Hans Bellée: The work of Martin Wehrmann from 1931 to 1936 in chronological order. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 39 NF (1937), pp. 343-346.

Fonts (selection)

  • The establishment of the Protestant school system in Pomerania by 1563. Supplement to the communications of the Society for German Educational and School History, No. 7. Berlin 1905.
  • History of the city of Szczecin. Saunier, Stettin 1911. (Reprint: Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-89350-119-3 )
  • Country studies of the province of Pomerania. Hirth, Breslau 1911. (Reprint: Wolfenbüttel 2005, ISBN 978-3-939102-05-2 )
  • History of Pomerania , 2 volumes, Volume I: Up to the Reformation (1523) , Volume II: Up to the present. 2nd Edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919–21. (Reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 )
  • History of the island of Rügen. 2 parts. Publishing house Dr. K. Moninger, Greifswald 1922.
  • Bishop Otto von Bamberg in Pomerania. Pomeranian local history, 8th volume. Publishing house Dr. K. Moninger, Greifswald 1924.
  • History of the country and town of Greifenberg . District printing works, Greifenberg 1927.
  • Johann Bugenhagen - His life and work . Herrcke and Lebeling, Stettin 1935.
  • The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Saunier, Stettin 1936.
  • Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Saunier, Stettin 1937.
  • Pomerania - A walk through its history. New edition. Griffin books, Volume 1. Weizacker-Verlag, Arolsen 1949.

literature

  • Paul Bode: Martin Wehrmann, the historian of Pomerania. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Vol. 77 (1962), issue 1, p. 24.
  • Wolfgang Dahle: Martin Wehrmann on the 70th anniversary of his death. In: Stettiner Bürgerbrief. 2007, ISSN  1619-6201 , pp. 29-31.
  • Dirk Mellies: Martin Wehrmann and the history of Pomerania . In: The Demmin Colloquia on the history of Western Pomerania . Greifswald 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813402-3-5 , pp. 213-222.
  • Immanuel Meyer-Pyritz : Important Pomeranians from five centuries. Exhibition catalog published by the Society for Pomeranian History, Archeology and Art e. V., Dept. Berlin, Berlin 1961.
  • Rembert Unterstell: Klio in Pomerania. The history of the Pomeranian historiography 1815 to 1945. Cologne a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-412-14495-9 , pp. 185-200.
  • Rembert Unterstell: Martin Wehrmann (1861–1937) as a historiographer of Pomerania. A portrait. In: Journal for East Central Europe Research . 44: 374-390 (1995).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : Pomeranian dukes. Portrait of the griffins. Hinstorff, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01479-2 , p. 11.
  3. ^ Szczecin State Archives - Guide to the holdings up to 1945 . Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe; Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57641-0 , pp. 574-576 ( limited preview ).
personal data
SURNAME Wehrmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1937
Place of death Stargard in Pomerania