Rudolf Kötzschke

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Rudolf Kötzschke (born July 8, 1867 in Dresden , † August 3, 1949 in Leipzig ) was a German historian . With the seminar for regional history and settlement studies in Leipzig, Kötzschke founded the first regional historical institution at a German university.

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Rudolf Kötzschke's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Rudolf Kötzschke was the son of the "royal Saxon chamber musician" Hermann Kötzschke and older brother of the historian Paul Richard Kötzschke (born June 21, 1869). He attended Gelinek's private school and from 1877 to 1885 the Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz in Dresden. From 1886 to 1889 he studied at the University of Leipzig the main subjects Latin and history as well as the minor subjects German, geography, Sanskrit and ancient Greek ; in the summer of 1887 he studied for a semester at the University of Tübingen . In Leipzig he became a member of the St. Pauli Leipzig University Choir (now part of the German Choir). In 1889 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on Ruprecht von der Pfalz and the Council of Pisa , and the following year he passed the state examination. Then Kötzschke initially worked as a teacher at a Dresden and a Leipzig grammar school until the historian Karl Lamprecht brought him to Leipzig in 1894 . In 1896 Kötzschke became a laborer in the Royal Saxon Commission for History .

In 1899, Kötzschke completed his habilitation in Leipzig for “middle and modern history, in particular for Saxon regional history”. The subject of the habilitation was studies on the administrative history of the manorial system . In addition to Lamprecht, Erich Marcks and Gerhard Seeliger were reviewers . After completing his habilitation , Kötzschke first became a private lecturer in Leipzig and in 1906 an associate professor . In 1906 he was also appointed head of the Institute for Regional History and Settlement Studies, which he held until 1936. From 1930 he held a chair for Saxon history. In the time of National Socialism he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) , the Reichs Luftschutzbund and the Reichskolonialbund . However , he did not join the NSDAP . He described Hitler's “seizure of power” as “a milestone in German history”. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

In 1935 he retired. In the same year he became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . His successor in Leipzig in 1935 was the Austrian Adolf Helbok . As an academic teacher, Kötzschke supervised over 100 doctoral theses from 1906 until his retirement. Important academic students were Karlheinz Blaschke , Heinz Quirin , Herbert Helbig and Walter Schlesinger . In 1942 Kötzschke was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . After the Second World War , Kötzschke was again entrusted with the management of the Institute for German National and Folk History from 1946 to 1949, which was reopened on October 7, 1946. Kötzschke taught at the University of Leipzig until shortly before his death on August 3, 1949, and tried to rebuild the destroyed seminar library.

Rudolf Kötzschke became the founder of regional historical research as a scientific discipline. He is considered an expert in medieval economic history, in particular agricultural and settlement history. His publications such as the economic history of the Middle Ages , the Saxon history up to the Reformation and the rural settlement and agriculture in Saxony form the high point of his research. The Rudolf-Kötzschke-Gesellschaft was founded in 1994. Kötzschke's work during the Nazi era was first discussed in more detail in a volume published in 1999.

Fonts

  • Germans and Slavs in the Central German East. Selected essays. Published by Walter Schlesinger, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1961.
  • Rural settlement and agriculture in Saxony (= research on German regional studies. Vol. 77, ISSN  0375-6343 ). Edited from the estate by Herbert Helbig . Publishing house of the Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen 1953.
  • The beginnings of German law in the history of settlement in the East. (Ius Teutonicum) (= reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. Philological-Historical Class 93, 2, ISSN  0138-5151 ). Hirzel, Leipzig 1941.
  • with Hellmut Kretzschmar : Saxon History. Becoming and changes of a German tribe and its homeland in the context of German history. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Prehistory and Early History, Middle Ages and Reformation. Vol. 2: History of the Modern Era since the middle of the 16th century. ). Heinrich, Dresden 1935 (In one volume: Sächsische Geschichte. Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-705-1 ).
  • General economic history of the Middle Ages (= handbook of economic history. Vol. 2). Fischer, Jena 1924 (reprint. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1998, ISBN 3-487-10736-8 ).
  • as editor: Sources on the history of East German colonization in the 12th to 14th centuries (= collection of sources on German history. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 2536018-8 ). Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1912 (2nd edition, ibid. 1931).
  • German economic history up to the 17th century (= outline of historical science. Row 2, Dept. 1). Teubner, Leipzig 1907 (2nd revised edition as: Principles of German Economic History up to the 17th Century. Ibid. 1921).

literature

  • Enno Bünz (Ed.): 100 Years of State History (1906–2006). Leipzig achievements, entanglements and effects (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Volume 38). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 3-865-83618-6 ( table of contents ; PDF; 25 kB).
  • Herbert Helbig: In Memoriam Rudolf Kötzschke. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Vol. 80, 1950, pp. 524-530.
  • Herbert Helbig :  Kötzschke, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wieland Held , Uwe Schirmer (ed.): Rudolf Kötzschke and the seminar for regional history and settlement studies at the University of Leipzig. Home of Saxon regional studies (= writings of the Rudolf Kötzschke Society. Volume 1). Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1999, ISBN 3-930-07653-5 .
  • Rudolf Kötzschke: Ruprecht of the Palatinate and the Council of Pisa. Frommansche Buchdruckerei, Jena 1889 (also dissertation, University of Leipzig), p. 115 (curriculum vitae).
  • Lothar Mertens : The lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 354f.
  • Alexander Pinwinkler : Historical population research. Germany and Austria in the 20th century. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1408-5 , especially pp. 146–174.
  • Hans Walther: Rudolf Kötzschke (1867–1949). In: Gerald Wiemers (Ed.): Sächsische Lebensbilder. Vol. 5, Leipzig et al. 2003, pp. 327-333.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Walter Seidel, Willmar Sichler: Directory of the members of the Association of the Old Paulines in Leipzig. According to the status of May 1, 1937. Association of the Old Pauliner, Leipzig, 1937, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 181.
  3. ^ Enno Bünz: A regional historian in the 20th century. Rudolf Kötzschke (1867–1949) between methodical innovation and folk history. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 141/142 (2005/2006), pp. 347–367, here: p. 358.
  4. ↑ Esther Ludwig: Rudolf Kötzschke - The heavy effort to preserve the "inviolable purity of the historical sense". In: Wieland Held, Uwe Schirmer: (Ed.): Rudolf Kötzschke and the seminar for regional history and settlement studies at the University of Leipzig. Home of Saxon regional studies. Beucha 1999, pp. 21–70, here: p. 46 with note 83.
  5. ^ Enno Bünz: A regional historian in the 20th century. Rudolf Kötzschke (1867–1949) between methodical innovation and folk history. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 141/142 (2005/2006), pp. 347–367, here: p. 366.
  6. ^ Page by Kötzschke at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  7. ^ Wieland Held, Uwe Schirmer (ed.): Rudolf Kötzschke and the seminar for regional history and settlement studies at the University of Leipzig. Home of Saxon regional studies. Beucha 1999. Cf. the review by Enno Bünz in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Thüringische Geschichte Vol. 55 (2001), pp. 426-430.
personal data
SURNAME Kötzschke, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1949
Place of death Leipzig