Peter Eitel

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Peter Eitel, 2016

Peter Eitel (born November 20, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian and archivist . 1973–1998 he headed the Ravensburg City Archives . His work focuses on the history of Ravensburg and Upper Swabia .

life and work

Ravensburg City Archives in Kuppelnaustraße

Eitel studied history in Tübingen and was awarded the title of “Dr.” in 1967 with his work The Upper Swabian Imperial Cities in the Age of Guild Rule. phil. ”. From 1967 he was a research assistant in the history department at the University of Konstanz , and from 1971 he attended the Marburg archive school . The interest in the Upper Swabian imperial cities, which was already shown in his dissertation, also determined his further professional life: in 1973 he became head of the Ravensburg City Archives - one of the largest and most widely used municipal archives in southern Germany - and the municipal collections. Eitel was the first full-time city archivist in Ravensburg and the first trained archivist to hold this office. However, he was able to build on the achievements of his predecessor Alfons Dreher , who had already largely opened up the previously largely disordered archive using extensive finding aids and had presented a two-volume city history of the imperial city era. During Eitel's tenure, the city archives moved to the former girls' secondary school (called “Affenkasten”) on Kuppelnaustraße. Under Eitel, the archive material stored by the city archive grew from 150 to 1200 linear meters of shelf, including numerous previously untapped, improperly stored materials from administrations, foundations and associations. The acquisition of collections and estates enriched the city history collection. The first plans for the Museum Humpis-Quartier , which opened in 2009 under his successor Andreas Schmauder , were also made during Eitel's tenure . Archive pedagogy and public relations became important components of the work of the city archive under Eitel.

In 1997, an anthology published by Eitel presented the history of Ravensburg under National Socialism in detail for the first time. He also published countless articles, gave lectures and was responsible for exhibitions on the history and art history of Ravensburg and the surrounding area. Eitel's decades of preoccupation with the history of Ravensburg and the history of Upper Swabia laid the foundation for two extensive works that he was able to tackle after his retirement in 1998: The History of the City of Ravensburg in the 19th and 20th Centuries was published in 2004, the first volume of the story In 2010 he presented Upper Swabia in the 19th and 20th centuries to the years 1800–1870. Both works received benevolent reviews, not least because overview-like works were only available for the period up to the mediatization of the imperial city in 1802.

Eitel is a corresponding member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, a member of the Advisory Board of the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research and was editor of the writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , for which he was awarded honorary membership of this association in 2015. Eitel has also been an honorary member of the Oberschwaben Society for History and Culture since 2017.

In 2009 Eitel received the Friedrich-Schiedel Science Prize for the History of Upper Swabia , and in 2018 the Staufer Medal for services to the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Publications

(Selection)

Monographs:

  • The Upper Swabian imperial cities in the age of guild rule. Investigations into their political and social structure with special consideration of the cities of Lindau, Memmingen, Ravensburg and Überlingen . Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1970 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1967)
  • Ravensburg and the Schussental in views and descriptions from five centuries . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1977, ISBN 3-7995-2008-2
  • From the life of an Upper Swabian businessman. Ulrich Christoph Gradmann's diary from Ravensburg from 1796–1845 . Edited by Peter Eitel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007707-4
  • Pictures from the Schussental. 50 historical sketches . Oberschwäbische Verlags-Anstalt, Ravensburg 1987, ISBN 3-926891-03-3
  • Ravensburg in the 19th and 20th centuries. Politics, economy, population, church, culture, everyday life . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-0138-X
  • History of Upper Swabia in the 19th and 20th centuries
    • Volume 1: The Road to the Kingdom of Württemberg (1800–1870) . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-0852-0
    • Volume 2: Upper Swabia in the Empire (1870–1918) . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7995-1002-8
    • Volume 3: in planning

Editing:

  • Weißenau in the past and present. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the handover of the Holy Blood relic by Rudolf von Habsburg to the Premonstratensian Abbey in Weißenau . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-4020-2
  • About Mehlsack and Martinsberg. Stories about the history of the Schussental (with Jan Koppmann). Biberacher Verlags-Druckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-60-2 (historical stories on topics and people from the history of Ravensburg, Weingarten and the surrounding area)
  • Sources on the history of the city of Ravensburg. For history lessons (with Jan Koppmann). Loose-leaf collection. City of Ravensburg, Ravensburg 1992–1997
  • Ravensburg in the Third Reich. Contributions to the history of the city . Oberschwäbische Verlags-Anstalt, Ravensburg 1997, ISBN 3-926891-19-X
  • Upper Swabia. Contributions to history and culture (with Elmar L. Kuhn ). UVK, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-87940-542-5

Articles (available online):

  • The origin of the new citizens of Überlingen in the 15th century , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 87th year 1969, pp. 127-132 ( digitized version )
  • The role of the imperial city of Überlingen in the economic history of the Lake Constance area , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 89th year 1971, pp. 9-22 ( digitized version )
  • Trade and traffic in the Lake Constance area during the early modern period , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 91st year 1973, pp. 67–90 ( digitized version )
  • The late medieval "head tiles" from the Green Tower in Ravensburg and their meaning , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 95th year 1977, pp. 135-140 ( digitized version )
  • Traveling fellows. Observations on the journey of journeyman craftsmen in the first half of the 19th century based on Ravensburger sources , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 97th year 1979, pp. 131–144 ( digitized version )
  • The cities of the Lake Constance area. Historical similarities and interrelationships , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 99/100. Born 1981/82, pp. 577-596 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Gunther Dahinten : History not in an ivory tower, but for the citizens. Peter Eitel . In: Profiles Ravensburg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2008, ISBN 978-3-933614-40-7 , pp. 52–55
  • Kai-Michael Sprenger (Hrsg.): Friedrich-Schiedel-Science Prize for the history of Upper Swabia. Speeches at the sixth award ceremony to Dr. Peter Eitel on November 6, 2009 in the Schwörsaal in the Waaghaus in Ravensburg . With contributions by Kurt Widmaier, Klaus Schreiner and Peter Eitel. District Office Ravensburg, Culture and Archives Office, Ravensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813174-4-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ravensburg.de/rv/buergerservice-verwaltung/stadtverwaltung/stadtarchiv.php
  2. ↑ on the genesis of the book cf. Stefan Jehle: Ravensburg in the Third Reich , State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg
  3. ↑ see also https://www.schwaebische.de/home_artikel,-_arid,2087825.html
  4. ↑ http://www.stadtgeschichtsforschung.de/beirat.htm
  5. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 229.
  6. ^ Staufer Medal for Ravensburger Stadtarchivar , Schwäbische Zeitung, July 16, 2018
  7. ↑ cf. also review by Karl Mommsen , in: Swiss Journal of History , 22 (1972)
personal data
SURNAME Vain, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart