Meta Kohnke

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Meta Kohnke (born October 15, 1932 ) is a German archivist and historian .

Life

After attending school and attending the Institute for Archive Studies in Potsdam , which she graduated from in 1958, Meta Kohnke received her doctorate in 1968 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation The Prussian Cabinet Ministry. A contribution to the history of the state apparatus in late feudalism . Until the beginning of the 1990s she worked in the Merseburg office of the Central State Archive of the GDR, which was incorporated into the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin and was relocated from Merseburg to Berlin in 1993.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The order of the holdings in the Secret State Archives in Berlin before and after the introduction of the provenance principle . In: Archivmitteilungen 11 (1961), pp. 111–116.
  • The pertinence holdings in the German Central Archives, Merseburg department. History, structure and archival processing . In: Archivmitteilungen 14 (1964), pp. 223-231.
  • The Prussian Cabinet Ministry. A contribution to the history of the state apparatus in late feudalism , Berlin, 1968.
  • The Edict of Potsdam. About its creation, distribution and transmission . In: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte des Feudalismus 9 (1985), pp. 241-275.
  • Sources on the history of the French Revolution of 1789 in the Central State Archives, Merseburg office . In: Jahrbuch für Geschichte 39 (1989), pp. 427–445.
  • Carl Wilhelm Cosmar: History of the Royal Prussian Secret State and Cabinet Archives until 1806 , Edited with supplementary materials, introduced and explained by Meta Kohnke, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna, 1993 (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; Vol. 32) .
  • On the history of the General Directory 1712 / 22–1808 . In: From the work of the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, 1996.
  • Sources on the history of the Jews in the archives of the new federal states. Edited by Stefi Jersch-Wenzel and Reinhard Rürup . Volume 2: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage. Part I: Older central authorities until 1808/10 and the Brandenburg-Prussian house archive . Edit v. Meta Kohnke. (Saur) 1999.
  • with others: Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage , Part I, Berlin / Boston, 1999, Reprint 2013.
  • with others: Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage , Part II, Berlin / Boston, 2000, Reprint 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Celebration of the 50th birthday on October 15, 1982
personal data
SURNAME Kohnke, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1932