Paul Zimmermann (historian)

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Ernst Wilhelm Paul Zimmermann (born February 26, 1854 in Vorsfelde ; † February 13, 1933 in Kunrau ) was a German historian and archivist in Wolfenbüttel .

life and work

Zimmermann was the son of the later Senate President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court Rudolf Zimmermann († 1890) and his wife Luise Bode, the daughter of the judge in Braunschweig Wilhelm Bode . After graduating from high school in Wolfenbüttel , he studied history and philology in Leipzig , Munich and Heidelberg . In 1876 the doctor of history took up his first position at the State Main Archives in Wolfenbüttel. In 1890 he was appointed director of Karl von Schmidt-Phiseldeck as successor and in 1908 he was appointed secret archivist . In 1914 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1920 and 1926/27 he was managing director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Zimmermann married on August 28, 1880 with Martha Pfaff, the daughter of the district judge in Wolfenbüttel Erich Pfaff. There are children from the marriage. Of these, one knows the daughter Gertrud Zimmermann (* August 19, 1881), the son Rudolf Zimmermann (* March 13, 1884), the son Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann (1886–1971) and the daughter Helene Zimmermann (* November 14, 1891) .

Zimmermann's merits lie in working out the history of the city and country of Braunschweig . He was the editor and collaborator of various writings and publications on the history of the city and country of Braunschweig, such as the Braunschweigischer Magazin , the yearbook of the History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig and the yearbook of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein . Among other things, he has written various biographies for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Paul Zimmermann was a member of the clothing seller . He maintained a variety of contacts, for example with the humorous poet Wilhelm Busch , who often stayed in his vacation home in Wolfenbüttel. Zimmermann is buried in the Wolfenbüttel main cemetery. His extensive estate includes, among other things, collections on the biographies of Brunswick personalities and is in the Wolfenbüttel State Archives .

A plaque on his Wolfenbüttel house, the late baroque house Stadtmarkt 15, commemorates Paul Zimmermann.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporary Lexicon. 2nd year, Verlag Hermann AL Degener, Leipzig 1906, p. 1346.
  • Festschrift Paul Zimmermann on the completion of his 60th year of life by friends, admirers and employees (= sources and research on the history of Braunschweig 6). Wolfenbüttel 1914.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Zimmermann, Paul. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hannover 1996, pp. 672-673.
  • Dieter Lent : Miscellanea on the subject of Wilhelm Busch and Wolfenbüttel. An unknown letter from Busch to archive director Paul Zimmermann. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 68, 1987, pp. 133-140.
  • Dieter Lent: The estate of the Brunswick archive director and regional historian Paul Zimmermann in the Wolfenbüttel State Archive. In: Archives in Lower Saxony. 10, 1992, pp. 13-15.
  • Hermann Voges : Paul Zimmermann. In: Otto Heinrich May (Ed.): Lower Saxon Life Pictures. Volume 1. Hildesheim 1939, pp. 439-454.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 268. The year of birth, death and election are obviously interchanged here with those of Heinrich Zimmer . Cf. estate of the secret archivist Dr. Paul Zimmermann .
  2. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent : Miscellanea on the subject of Wilhelm Busch and Wolfenbüttel. An unknown letter from Busch to archive director Paul Zimmermann. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 68, 1987, pp. 133-140.
  3. ↑ In Search of the Butterfly. Walks through cemeteries in Wolfenbüttel
  4. ^ Dieter Lent: The estate of the Brunswick archive director and regional historian Paul Zimmermann in the Wolfenbüttel State Archive. In: Archives in Lower Saxony. 10, 1992, pp. 13-15.

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personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Ernst Wilhelm Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorsfelde
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1933
Place of death Kunrau