Peter Pooth

Peter Engelbert Pooth (born July 21, 1884 in Cologne , † February 1, 1958 in Stralsund ) was a German scientist and archivist .

Life

Peter Pooth, who came from a middle-class background, began studying natural sciences at the Technical University of Aachen after attending high school in Cologne and studied chemistry and physics at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . From there he moved first to the University of Berlin and later to the University of Rostock and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , where he received his doctorate magna cum laude as Doctor philosophiae .

After completing his studies, he went to England for eight months and then began working in the chemical industry in the Rhine region in 1909 . In 1910 he got a job as an assistant at the 1st Chemical Institute of the University of Freiburg , where he gave lectures in French and German . He wrote articles for the journal “ Angewandte Chemie ”. In 1917 he went back to Germany for a year and a half , but returned to Switzerland in November 1918 and stayed there until 1921.

From 1921 to 1924 he worked in a paint factory in Frankfurt . In 1924 he went to Stralsund , where he also worked in a paint factory. In the course of the global economic crisis , he was unemployed in 1932.

He turned to historical studies and worked from October 1932 to June 1933 free of charge in the Stralsund city archive . He kept his connection to chemistry insofar as he initially devoted himself to the Stralsund pharmacy system and the work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele , who was born in Stralsund . In addition, he published essays in the “Deutsche Apothekerzeitung” and the “Pomeranian Yearbooks”. He continued the indexing of the archives' document holdings , which Hermann Hoogeweg had begun. The director of the archive, Fritz Adler , entrusted him with the creation of registers of the documents of the Stralsund monasteries and hospitals as well as the calendar and the orphanage and inn.

In June 1933, Peter Pooth was employed in the archive as a research assistant with a monthly salary of 40 marks; the remuneration rose to 45 marks and from 1936 to 65 marks. In order to earn a living, Peter Pooth published articles on Stralsund's city history in the daily newspapers. In the archive he prepared repertories for the documents of the craft offices, the dressmaker company and the merchant's deputation. On December 21, 1936, he was appointed archivist.

Peter Pooth, who married at the end of 1935, was not a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which he was accused of by the new Lord Mayor Werner Stoll and the NSDAP district leadership. From 1937 he was no longer allowed to publish articles in the newspapers. The director of the archive, Fritz Adler, stood up for him, as did the state archive director Adolf Diestelkamp , who offered Pooth a position in the state archive and announced this in a letter to the city administration. As a result, Peter Pooth was employed for six hours at 130 marks a month, and from November 1937 he received a permanent contract. He was now responsible for the family history department of the Stralsund archive. Here he completed the listing of the Stralsund Citizens' Books from 1572 to 1873.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Peter Pooth was initially employed in the registration office, later to look after the housing and in April 1945 to erect anti-tank barriers.

On May 17, 1945, he suffered a stroke that paralyzed him. His wife died soon after. He himself lived seriously ill in a municipal nursing home in Andershof (today part of Stralsund), where he died on February 1, 1958.

Fonts (selection)

• The St. Jürgen monastery on the beach in Stralsund. In: Baltic Studies . NF, Volume 36, 1934, pp. 60-90.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele . In: Pomeranian Yearbooks . Volume 28, 1934, pp. 91-131.
• From the history of the Stralsund bear pharmacy. In: Deutsche Apothekerzeitung . Born in 1936, No. 48.
• Leporosoria in medieval Western Pomerania. In: The Medical World. No. 33, 1937.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele's birthplace. In: Pomeranian Yearbooks . Volume 33, 1939, pp. 63-78.
• [with Ernst Jendreyczyk:] From the history of the Stralsund pharmacies. Mittenwald 1939.
• The St. Jürgen monastery in front of Rambin on Rügen. In: Baltic Studies . NF, Vol. 42, 1940, pp. 62-89.
• The Gasthaus zu Stralsund and its relationship to the history of the city hospital. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Volume 5, 1965, pp. 157-168 (published posthumously).
• The Heilgeisthospital in Stralsund. In: Baltic Studies . NF, Volume 105, 2019, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 9-51 (published posthumously).

literature

• Herbert Ewe : Peter Pooth and his importance for the archive . In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Volume 5, 1965, pp. 119-127.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registration of Peter Pooth in the Rostock matriculation portal .

Web links

• Literature about Peter Pooth in the state bibliography MV