Walter Deeters

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Walter Deeters (born June 24, 1930 in Leipzig ; † October 14, 2004 in Aurich ) was a German historian , archivist and head of the former Aurich State Archives (since 2014: Lower Saxony State Archives (Aurich location)) in East Frisia . He was the editor, author and co-author of numerous articles and books on the history of East Frisia .

life and work

Walter Deeters was born in Leipzig in 1930, where his father, the linguist Gerhard Deeters , worked at the university there . His mother Edith, b. Dörschel, also had a doctorate ( geography ) and worked for the German legal dictionary and the " Brockhaus ". After his father accepted an offer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1935 , Walter Deeters attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium from 1940 , where he graduated from high school in 1950. Immediately after graduating from high school, he began to study classical archeology and history in Bonn, which he later continued at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1954, when he returned to Bonn, Deeters received his doctorate from Walther Holtzmann . Since Deeters had made the decision to go into civil service after completing his studies, but could not present the third subject required for the state examination , he then studied German . In 1957 he passed the state examination.

After his exams, Deeters joined the Lower Saxony archives service . After a two-year legal traineeship, he worked at the main state archive in Hanover from 1959 and at the state archive in Stade from 1964 to 1965 . There he married his wife Ingrid. In 1965 Deeters went to Rome for three years at the German Historical Institute and viewed holdings in the Vatican Archives . From this work, which he later continued from Germany, Volume 6/1 of the Repertorium Germanicum was created (with preliminary work by Joseph Friedrich Abert ), which Deeters presented in 1985. After three years in Rome, Deeters returned to Germany and initially worked at the Wolfenbüttel State Archives . The director there, Joseph König , who had previously worked in East Friesland, supported Deeters, who was finally appointed head of the then State Archives Aurich in 1975 (since 2014: Lower Saxony State Archives (Aurich location)). He held this position until his retirement in 1995.

Deeters made a living in Aurich by rearranging the completely outdated and not archived according to modern criteria. Seventeen finding aids were published under Deeters' direction , including six from his own pen. These included the three most extensive finding aids on the Hanoverian Landdrostei Aurich . Even after his retirement, Deeters remained active in this area and in 1999 presented another inventory overview.

In addition to his work as an archivist, Deeters also published on the history of East Frisia. The head of the Aurich State Archives is traditionally the publisher of the Emden yearbook for historical regional studies of East Friesland , the only scientific periodical about the history of that region. Deeters was not only responsible for the final editing, but also wrote numerous scientific articles himself. He was also significantly involved in the twelve-volume series "Ostfriesland im Schütze des Deiches" - on the one hand in the editorial field and on the other as co-author of two volumes on the history of Emden . In addition, he wrote a “Small History of East Friesland” and numerous entries in the (now four-volume) “Biographical Lexicon for East Friesland”. For its services to regional studies, the East Frisian landscape had already awarded Deeters the "Indigenat" in 1989, a kind of East Frisian honorary citizenship for people not born in the region. Walter Deeters died in Aurich in 2004. Walter Deeters' grave is in the Aurich-Stadt cemetery.

Fonts (selection in chronological order)

  • About the Germanicum Repertory as a historical source. Attempted methodical guidance . In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte , Vol. 105 (1969), pp. 27–43.
  • with Ernst Siebert and Bernard Schröer: History of the City of Emden from 1750 to the Present (Volume VII of the series "Ostfriesland im Schütze des Deiches", published by Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum), Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, without ISBN.
  • with Joseph Friedrich Abert (arrangement): Repertorium Germanicum, Volume 6: Nikolaus V. 1447–1455 , Tübingen 1985.
  • A short history of East Frisia . 2. through Edition, Verlag Schuster, Leer 1992, ISBN 3-7963-0229-7 .
  • with Klaus Brandt, Hajo van Lengen and Heinrich Schmidt : History of the city of Emden from the beginnings to 1611 (Volume X of the series "Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike", published by Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum), Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1994, without ISBN .
  • Small state and province. General history of the modern age , in Karl-Ernst Behre / Hajo van Lengen (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland. History and shape of a cultural landscape . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1995, ISBN 3-925365-85-0 , pp. 135-185.
  • Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Aurich , publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration, Volume 53, Göttingen 1999.

literature

  • Hajo van Lengen (Ed.): Collectanea Frisica. Contributions to the historical regional studies of East Frisia. Walter Deeters on his 65th birthday (= treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia. Volume 74). Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1995, ISBN 3-925365-86-9 , including a complete bibliography up to and including 1995.
  • Martin Tielke: Walter Deeters 1930-2004. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 77 (2005), pp. 515-517.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise referenced, this article is based on Martin Tielke: Walter Deeters (PDF; 93 kB), published in the Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Volume IV, Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Aurich 2007, pp. 93–96, available on the website of the East Frisian Landscape , accessed on February 26, 2013.
  2. ↑ Grave of Walter Deeters on the website www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de, accessed on January 11, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Deeters, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2004
Place of death Aurich