Walter Grube

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Walter Grube (born June 12, 1907 in Strasbourg ; † May 11, 1992 in Stuttgart ) was a German archivist and regional historian .

Life

Grube's parents were Georg Grube (1883–1966) - Full Professor of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart - and his wife Magdalena geb. Peters (1885-1969). After graduating from the Dillmann-Gymnasium Stuttgart he studied from 1925 at the University of Tübingen Law , from 1926 history , German and English. He moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Philipps University of Marburg . With a doctorate in Wilhelm Mommsen doctorate he 1931 Dr. phil.

After he had passed the 1st state examination for academic teaching in 1932 and had been a Prussian teacher training candidate from April to November, he went to Tübingen and Berlin as a library trainee . In 1935 he became a research assistant at the Ludwigsburg State Archives . In 1939 he was appointed civil servant for life and archivist at the main state archive in Stuttgart , and took part in the entire Second World War. In 1945 he was automatically arrested by the Americans . The civil servant status he lost in the process was returned to him after his internment in 1948. In the State Archives in Ludwigsburg and in the Main State Archives in Stuttgart he became Senior State Archives Councilor (1954), State Archives Director (1964) and Senior State Archives Director (1970).

For more than 38 years, from 1954 to 1992, he sat on the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg , from 1969 to 1974 as chairman. From 1967 until his retirement in 1972 he was a consultant at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg and head of the Stuttgart archive department.

He was married to Eva born in 1935 . Krause (1906-1985). Grube died a month before his 85th birthday, leaving two daughters and three sons. He found his final resting place in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .

Works

  • Sources on the history of the Jewish question in Württemberg. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 2 (1938), pp. 117–154.
  • The "locked registry" of the old Württemberg church council, inventory . Stuttgart 1940.
  • with Ernst Schaude: The Nürtingen district association . Nürtingen 1953.
  • Israel Hartmann. Life picture of an old Württemberg pietist . 1953.
  • The Stuttgart State Parliament, 1457–1957. From the estates to the democratic parliament . Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart 1957.
  • Mömpelgard and Altwuerttemberg . Schauenburg, Lahr 1959.
  • with Eugen Frick: Bailiffs, offices, counties in the history of southwest Germany . Stuttgart 1960.
  • Schorndorf's position in the history of the Duchy of Württemberg . 1961.
  • The archive of the City and Office of Wildberg in the State Archives Ludwigsburg . Stuttgart 1962.
  • The Tübingen Treaty of July 8, 1514. Facsimile edition on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the establishment of the Tübingen Treaty . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964.
  • with Liesel Rudolph-Westphal and Harry Evers: Weimar . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Baroque office buildings in Baden-Württemberg. On the history of administrative administration in southwest Germany . 1981.

Honors

literature

  • Festgabe - Walter Grube, for the completion of the 60th year of life . Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1967.
  • Festschrift for Walter Grube . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 8, 1963
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The New Aera and the National Association. A contribution to the history of Prussia in the unity movement .
  3. ↑ LeoBw
personal data
SURNAME Pit, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and regional historian in Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1992
Place of death Stuttgart