Olof Ahlers

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Kurt Olof Ahlers (born May 31, 1913 in Staßfurt ; † December 23, 1996 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German historian and archivist.

Life

Olof Ahlers grew up in Lübeck and attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school. He studied from 1931 to 1937 at the Universities of Kiel and Vienna . In 1939 he was at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the population policy of the cities of the Wendish quarter of Hanseatic against Slavs Dr. phil. PhD; at the same time he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post. From 1939 to 1940 he was at the Prussian Institute for Archival Science (IfA) in Berlin-Dahlem . On August 1, 1939, he became a state archive trainee. In 1940 he passed the simplified state examination for higher archival service. Then he was drafted into military service.

After 1945 he came to Lübeck. He joined the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1948 as the second scientific archivist and managed it as the successor to Ahasver von Brandt as director from 1962 until he retired in 1978. Antjekathrin Graßmann was appointed his successor .

Also due to the strongly decimated holdings of the archive due to outsourcing during the Second World War, he turned to the organization and indexing of the younger authorities' archives, which had not yet been very much in the spotlight. At the same time, he tried to locate and retrieve the Lübeck archives that had been transferred to the GDR and the Soviet Union . The latter was only possible later.

He was a member since 1948 and from 1962 to 1978 chairman of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology and editor of its magazine .

Works

  • The population policy of the cities of the Wendish quarter of the Hanseatic League towards Slavs. Berlin 1939
  • Civilitates. Lübeck new resident lists 1317–1356. Lübeck 1967 (= publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck 19)
  • Lübeck 1226. Lübeck: Hansisches Verlagkontor Scheffler 1976

literature

  • Günter Meyer: Olof Ahlers (1913-1996) , in: ZVLGA 77 (1997), p. 290f
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann: Olof Ahlers † , in: Der Archivar 50 (1997), p. 443ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example GDR: Caesarea on loan , in: Der Spiegel from April 19, 1976 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Ahlers, Olof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlers, Kurt Olof (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1996
Place of death Bad Schwartau