Peter von Gebhardt

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Peter Adalbert Eduard Gustav von Gebhardt (born January 31, 1888 in Berlin , † September 6, 1947 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German genealogist and archivist .

Life

Peter von Gebhardt was the son of the director of the Leipzig University Library Oscar von Gebhardt and his wife Jenny, née Schindler, daughter of the businessman Adalbert Schindler.

He received his education at the Thomasschule and from 1903 at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig , which he left in 1908 with the school leaving certificate.

After an apprenticeship at a bank in Düsseldorf , he began studying law , economics and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Leipzig in 1910 . In 1915 he was a research assistant at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig.

During the First World War he was called up for military service. He was then from 1919 to 1924 head of the library of the legal seminar at Berlin University and was a member of the staff of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

In the following years he devoted himself as a private scholar to genealogical research and toured numerous German and European archives .

On July 1, 1932, he was employed by the city of Magdeburg as city archivist and compiled a basic overview of the history and holdings of this archive, which he published in 1935 under the title The Magdeburg City Archive . Published an overview of its history and its holdings . After he had to give up this position in May 1933 for health reasons, he worked as a freelancer.

In 1940 he joined the Foreign Office as a research assistant .

From 1945 until his death in 1947 he was employed as a research assistant at the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem .

Peter von Gebhardt was editor of the family history search and display sheet (since 1925) and the genealogical journal Der Herold. Journal for gender, coat of arms and seal studies (from 1939 to 1943).

From 1926 he was managing director of the working group of the German family and coat of arms associations .

Works (selection)

  • The Magdeburg City Archives. Overview of its history and its holdings , Leipzig 1935 (pamphlets for family history, issue 24)
  • Name reference to the literature on the Jena book printer dispute from 1721-24 , Leipzig 1933 (Familiengeschichtliche Blätter, vol. 32, H. 4/5/6)
  • Manfred von Ardenne and his ancestors , Görlitz 1931 (archive for family research and all related areas)
  • with Hans Schauer: Johann Gottfried Herder, his ancestors and his descendants , Leipzig 1930 (Contributions to German Family History, Vol. 11)
  • The beginnings of the Berlin address book. A bibliographical attempt , Berlin 1930
  • History of the Brockhaus family from Unna in Westphalia , Leipzig 1928
  • with Alexander von Lyncker: Directory of the Stolper Cadets (1761-1816) , Leipzig 1927 (communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History, issue 37)
  • The oldest Berlin citizen book 1453-1700 , Berlin 1927 (Sources and research on the history of Berlin, vol. 1)
  • Directory of the new citizens of the city of Frankfurt an der Oder from 1580 to 1699. Compiled from the oldest civil register, Leipzig 1924 (communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History, e.V., issue 28)
  • Directory of funeral sermons and occasional writings of personal history from the 16th and 17th centuries 17th century in the Leipzig University Library , Leipzig 1920 (communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History, no. 24/25)
  • Upper Saxon Gender Book , Vol. 1, Görlitz 1920

literature

  • Jürgen Arndt: Biographical Lexicon of Heraldists and Sphragisticians, Vexillologists and Insignologists , Neustadt an der Aisch 1992 ( J. Siebmachers Grosses Wappenbuch , Vol. H), p. 137f
  • Friedrich von Klocke : Development of the genealogy from the end of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. Prolegomena to a textbook on genealogy , Schellenberg near Berchtesgaden 1950, 61f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola high school in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 24


personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt, Peter Adalbert Eduard Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genealogist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1947
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg