Reinhard Kluge (archivist)

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Reinhard Kluge (born July 11, 1933 in Dresden ) is a German archivist and historian . He was a university professor and from 1965 to 1990 deputy head of the State Archives Administration in the Ministry of the Interior of the German Democratic Republic , from which the Central Archives Office of the GDR emerged.

Life

After schooling studied Kluge in 1952 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , at the Faculty on December 31, 1960 where he became Dr. phil. received his doctorate. The topic of his unpublished dissertation was: Prince, Chamber and Privy Council in Electoral Saxony from the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century . In 1956/57 he worked at the Institute for Archive Studies in Potsdam, in 1958 at the Dresden State Archives and from 1960 to 1963 at the State Archives Administration of the GDR. Then he was at the main state archive in Dresdenactive and headed the department Capitalism there from 1964/65. Kluge received a professorship at the Academy for State and Law of the GDR and acted from 1965 to 1990 as deputy head of the state archive administration under Roland Leipold and Günter Herzog .

At the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1972 to 1990 he gave courses for direct and distance students in the Department of Archival Studies , headed by Botho Brachmann , of the History Section, the former Institute for Archives.

He later took part in the publication of all of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's works in the Deutsches Klassiker-Verlag in Berlin. In Rechenberg-Bienenmühle in Erzgebirge he sat down to rest.

Kluge was a member of the SED and is now a member of the local branch of the party Die Linke in Brand-Erbisdorf .

Fonts

  • (with Rolf Rasmussen): file plan. Necessity, structure, application . Berlin, State Publishing House of the GDR 1982.
  • Problems and tasks of the state archiving system in the revolutionary renewal of society in the GDR . In: Archivmitteilungen 40 (1990) 1, pp. 5-8.
  • The State Archive Fund of the GDR - Development and Problems . In: Archivmitteilungen 40 (1990) 5, pp. 162-165.
  • (Ed.) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Complete works, letters, diaries and conversations . Dept. 1, Vol. 26: Official publications. 1., Secret Consilium and other areas of responsibility taken on until the trip to Italy . Berlin, Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag 1998.
  • (Ed.) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Complete works, letters, diaries and conversations. Commentary and register . Berlin, Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag 2011.

literature

  • Friedrich Beck , Wolfgang Hempel, Eckart Henning (Eds.): Archivistica docet. Contributions to archival science and its interdisciplinary environment (= Potsdam Studies , Vol. 9). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-930850-86-9 , p. 772.
  • Hermann Schreyer: The state archives of the GDR. An overview (= writings of the Federal Archives, vol. 70), Düsseldorf 2008, p. 239f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Activity in the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden
  2. ↑ Goethe Yearbook, 2015, p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Kluge, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden