Paul Zinsmaier

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Paul Zinsmaier (born June 11, 1905 in Konstanz , † June 3, 1986 in Karlsruhe ) was a German archivist , diplomat and historian .

Paul Zinsmaier grew up in his native city of Constance. He passed his Abitur in 1926 and studied history, English and French at the University of Freiburg . From 1927 to 1929 he studied at the University of Vienna and from 1927 to 1929 was an extraordinary member of the 36th course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . He then studied in Heidelberg and Freiburg. His most important academic teachers were Georg von Below , Gerhard Ritter and especially Hans Hirsch . In 1930 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna on the documents of Konrad IV. Two years later he passed the state examination. Zinsmaier renounced the traineeship training in the school service and became a volunteer and then research assistant at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe . In 1942 he was appointed to the teaching staff. Zinsmaier became a prisoner of war in England. He was not released until the spring of 1948. In 1949 he found a permanent position as an archivist.

From 1957 until his retirement in 1970 he was the successor to Manfred Krebs, director of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. During his time as director, the last stocks relocated to Alsace were brought back. From 1959 to 1975 he had a lectureship for document theory and archival studies at the University of Heidelberg . There he was appointed honorary professor for medieval history and archival studies in 1967. Zinsmaier had been a member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg since 1954 and its board member since 1957. Zinsmaier was the editor of the magazine for the history of the Upper Rhine and editorially oversaw 17 volumes. He was also a member of the Regest Commission of the Mainz Academy of Sciences . Zinsmaier died in Karlsruhe at the age of 81.

Zinsmaier was one of the best experts on the Hohenstaufen royal documents. He presented pioneering treatises on the documents of Frederick II from his time as Roman-German King (1212-1220) as well as Henry (VII.) And Conrad IV. His monograph Die Urkunden Philipps von Schwaben and Otto IV. (1198-1212) , published in 1969, became fundamental . From 1978 he worked on behalf of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica on an edition of the documents of Philip of Swabia , which he was unable to complete. His preliminary work was incorporated into the edition that was finally released in 2014. In 1983 the extensive supplement to Böhmer-Ficker-Winkelmann, Regesta Imperii V. (1198–1272) was published.

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A directory of the publications of Zinsmaier in: Meinrad Schaab : Paul Zinsmaier June 11, 1905 - June 3, 1986. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Vol. 96 (1987), pp. 439-444, here: pp. 441-444.

  • The documents of Philip of Swabia and Otto IV. (1198–1212). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1969.

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SURNAME Zinsmaier, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1986
Place of death Karlsruhe