Rudolf Lehmann (historian)

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Memorial plaque on Lehmann's house in Senftenberg

Friedrich Adolf Rudolf Lehmann (born September 16, 1891 in Staßfurt , † January 14, 1984 in Marburg ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Born as the son of the elementary school teacher and cantor Rudolf Lehmann, he moved with his parents to Senftenberg in July 1900 . He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cottbus from 1904 to 1911 and began to be interested in the local history of Niederlausitz . After studying history , German and Latin language in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin he was in 1917 with the thesis The older history of Cisterzienserklosters Dobrilugk in the Lausitz at Karl Ludwig Hampe magna cum laude to the Dr. phil. PhD . Because of a heart valve defect , he was spared military service - he was still unable to fulfill his dream of being an archivist , and so an educational training followed. In 1926 he was teacher at reform High School in Senftenberg. As early as 1920 he joined the board of the Niederlausitz Society for History and Archeology , of which he became chairman in 1930 and remained until its dissolution in 1945. At the end of 1946 he was dismissed from school.

It was not until 1949 that he became archive manager in Lübben . He operated the expansion of the old Niederlausitz estate archive into a state archive . Because of his publishing activities in West Germany , he was forced to give up his job in 1958 at the age of 67, and the entire historical holdings of the Lübben State Archive, which he had built up, were transferred to the Brandenburg State Main Archive in Potsdam . After the Wall was built in 1961, scientific contacts across the inner-German border became increasingly difficult, and when the archive library was also moved to Potsdam in 1962, further work in Lübben was out of the question. He made the decision to leave the GDR and moved to Marburg in 1964. There, thanks to the support of the historian Walter Schlesinger , he was able to complete several large projects and bring them to publication. His estate was kept in the Research Center for Historical Regional Studies of Central Germany in Marburg and later given to the Brandenburg State Main Archive in Potsdam.

Since 1921 he was married to the Cottbus teacher Erna Kieschke, with whom he had four children. His daughter Anna Maria Lehmann married the Niederlausitz local historian Fritz Bönisch .

Memberships and honors

In 1995 a street in the Buchwalde district of his former hometown Senftenberg was named after him. In 2004 a memorial plaque was unveiled on his home.

Lehmann was a member of the NSDAP .

Works

  • The older history of the Cistercian monastery Dobrilugk in Lausitz (= Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen . Volume 13), Koenig, Guben / Schmersow, Kirchhain NL [Niederlausitz] 1917, OCLC 263617478 (dissertation University of Heidelberg 1916, 144 pages).
  • From the past of Niederlausitz. Lectures and essays. A. Heine, Cottbus 1925
  • The documents of the Guben city archive in regesta form. Magistrat, Guben 1927 (separate print from: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen. Volume 18, half 1)
  • Bibliography on the history of Niederlausitz. Gsellius, Berlin 1927 (= Brandenburgische Bibliographien, Volume 3; Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Capital Berlin, Volume 2); Volume 2, Böhlau, Münster-Cologne 1954 (= Central German Research, Volume 2); Reprinted under the title: Two bibliographies on the history of Niederlausitz until 1945. Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2012, ISBN 978-3-943331-02-8
  • History of the turning point in Niederlausitz until 1815 as part of the state history. Julius Beltz, Langensalza 1930 (= Die Wenden, issue 2)
  • History of the Margraviate of Niederlausitz. The fate of an East German landscape and its people. Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937
  • Document book of Dobrilugk Monastery and its possessions. BG Teubner, Leipzig-Dresden 1942 (= document book on the history of the Margraviate Niederlausitz, volume 5)
  • The conditions of the Lower Lusatian rulers and estate farmers in the period from the Thirty Years War to the Prussian reforms. Böhlau, Cologne-Graz 1956 (= Central German Research, Volume 6)
  • Sources on the situation of private farmers in Niederlausitz in the age of absolutism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957 (= publications of the Institute for History / German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, series 2, volume 2; publications of the regional historical research center for Brandenburg, volume 1)
  • Niederlausitz in the days of Classicism, Romanticism and Biedermeier. Böhlau, Cologne-Graz 1958 (= Central German Research, Volume 13); Reprint: Trautmann, Sonneberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046449-2
  • The documents of the Luckau city archive in Regesten. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958 (= publications of the Institute for History / German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, series 2, volume 5; publications of the regional historical research center for Brandenburg, volume 2)
  • Overview of the holdings of the Landesarchiv Lübben / NL. Böhlau, Weimar 1958 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, Volume 1)
  • History of Lower Lusatia. de Gruyter, Berlin 1963 (= publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Volume 5; extended new edition of the history of the Margraviate of Niederlausitz ); Reprint in two volumes: Klaus D. Becker, Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-88372-064-7 , ISBN 978-3-88372-065-4
  • The gentlemen in Niederlausitz. Studies of origin and history. Böhlau, Cologne-Graz 1966 (= Central German Research, Volume 40)
  • Document inventory on the history of Lower Lusatia up to 1400. Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1968 (= Central German Research, Volume 55)
  • Ancestors and youth. Memories of a Niederlausitzer. Self-published, Marburg 1968 (first part of his autobiography)
  • Life path and work process. A look back from a Niederlausitzer. Self-published, Marburg 1970 (second part of his autobiography)
  • Sources on the history of Niederlausitz. 3 volumes, Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1972, 1976 and 1979, ISBN 3-412-90972-6 , ISBN 3-412-05175-6 , ISBN 3-412-05778-9 (= Central German Research, Volume 68)
  • Investigations into the history of the church organization and administration of Lausitz in the Middle Ages. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-7678-0339-9 (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Volume 13), also: St-Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-7462-0127-6 (= studies on the history of the Catholic diocese and monastery, Volume 28)
  • Historical local dictionary for Lower Lusatia. 2 volumes, Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-921254-96-5 ; Reprint: Becker, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-941919-89-1 and ISBN 978-3-941919-90-7
  • Michael Gockel (Ed.): Rudolf Lehmann, a bourgeois historian and archivist on the edge of the GDR. Diaries 1945–1964 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, Volume 70). BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3745-8

literature

  • Friedrich Beck (Ed.): Local history and regional history. For Rudolf Lehmann's 65th birthday. 1958
  • Richard Moderhack : Rudolf Lehmann in memory. In: sheets for German national history. Volume 120, 1984, pp. 469-472
  • Michael Gockel and Annerose Michel: Bibliography Rudolf Lehmann 1916–1984. In: sheets for German national history. Volume 120, 1984, pp. 473-495 (an updated bibliography was published in 2018)
  • Michael Gockel: In memoriam Rudolf Lehmann. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 35, 1984, pp. 187-191 (with an illustration)
  • Gerd Heinrich : Rudolf Lehmann in memory. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany. Volume 33, 1984, pp. 583-584.
  • Friedrich Beck: In memoriam Dr. Rudolf Lehmann historian and archivist of Niederlausitz. In: Lübbener Heimatkalender 1998. Lübbener Heimatverein e. V., 1997, pp. 32–35 (with one illustration)
  • Michael Gockel: Lehmann, Friedrich Adolf Rudolf. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication by the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 250.
  • Michael Gockel: Rudolf Lehmann (1891–1984). Lower Lusatian regional historian and regional archivist in Lübben. In: Friedrich Beck and Klaus Neitmann (eds.): Life pictures of Brandenburg archivists and historians (= Brandenburg Historical Studies, Volume 16, = Publications of the Brandenburg Regional Association of the Association of German Archivists, Volume 4). bebra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937233-90-1 , pp. 135–152 (with picture)
  • E. Bönisch (text), Rudolf Lehmann (drawings): Niederlausitz sketches. Regia Verlag, Cottbus 2016, ISBN 978-3-86929-350-9
  • Peter Schurmann: Rudolf Lehmann and his research on the Sorbs / Wends. In: Lětopis . Volume 65, No. 2, 2018, pp. 35-61
  • Appendix 2: Bibliography Rudolf Lehmann. In: Michael Gockel (ed.): Rudolf Lehmann, a bourgeois historian and archivist on the edge of the GDR. Diaries 1945–1964 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, Volume 70). BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3745-8 , pp. 539-564

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Bönisch : Memorial plaque for Dr. Rudolf Lehmann. In: Niederlausitz Studies. Issue 32, Cottbus 2005, p. 4
  2. ↑ Michael Gockel (Ed.): Rudolf Lehmann, a bourgeois historian and archivist on the edge of the GDR. Diaries 1945–1964 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, Volume 70). BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3745-8 , p. 31, footnote 114
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Friedrich Adolf Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1984
Place of death Marburg