Paul Clauswitz

Paul Clauswitz (born February 22, 1839 in Wolmirstedt ; † April 11, 1927 ) was the first permanent archivist of the city of Berlin and head of the municipal library .

Life

Paul Clauswitz, son of the judge Justus Clauswitz , attended high school in Luckau from 1850 to 1857 , followed by studies at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1858 to 1860 , which he completed with an exam in field measurement . In 1860/1861 he did his military service, in 1866 he took part in the war against Austria and in 1871 in the Franco-German War . On March 14, 1867, he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with an art history dissertation ( Die Kupferstiche des Lukas von Leyden ), and in 1873 he completed his habilitation thesis.

In 1873 he began his career in archives at the Magdeburg State Archives . He was then transferred to the State Archives in Poznan , where he also worked as secretary of the archive in Münster. In 1877 he was appointed director in Poznan. On January 1, 1879, he was appointed head of the Berlin City Archives and the municipal library. He gave up the management of the library in 1890, and left the archive on December 31, 1912.

On December 15, 1887, he married Hedwig Nigmann.

Paul Clauswitz died in Berlin in 1927 at the age of 88 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

• Honorary member of the Association for the History of Berlin (1890)
• Silver Fidicin Medal of the Association for the History of Berlin (1903)

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Critical overview of the literature on the history of Berlin. In: Writings of the Association for History Berlin. Issue 31, Berlin 1894, pp. 115-164.
• About some articles in the Kreuzzeitung from 1848, allegedly by Herr von Bismarck-Schönhausen. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 32, Berlin 1895, pp. 99-114.
• (Editor) The plans of Berlin and the development of the soft picture. Festschrift to celebrate the silver wedding of Her Majesty the Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria . Edited by the Association for the History of Berlin. Mittler, Berlin 1906. ( digitized version )
• Building and land policy in Berlin from a historical perspective. In: Researched and experienced from old Berlin. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Association for the History of Berlin (= writings of the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 50). Association for the History of Berlin, Berlin 1917, pp. 29–48.

As editor:

• The city code of 1808 and the city of Berlin. Festschrift for the centenary commemoration of the introduction of the town regulations Springer, Berlin 1908, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-94337-9 ; Reprint 1986, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-71264-7 .
• The city book of old Cologne on the Spree from 1442 (= writings of the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 52). Association for the History of Berlin, Berlin 1921.

Archival material

• State Archives Berlin
  • A Rep. 001-02 Magistrate of the City of Berlin, General Office
  • A Rep. 021-02 City Archives Berlin
  • E Rep. 061-04 Estate [1]
• University archive Tübingen , doctoral files 131 / 16b No. 13

literature

• Ernst Kaeber : In memory of Paul Clauswitz: 1839-1927 , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Volume 44, 1927, pp. 137–146.
• Ernst Kaeber: In memory of Paul Clauswitz , in: Brandenburgia , year 36, 1927, pp. 62–64.
• Andreas Kaiser: City history of Berlin as a scientific discipline. Paul Clauswitz and the beginning of an independent Berlin historiography . In: Paul Clauswitz: The urban order of 1808 and the city of Berlin , Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1986, pp. 10–32.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.
2. ^ Association for the history of Berlin, list of honorary members
3. ^ Association for the history of Berlin, list of recipients of the Fidicin Medal