Walter Hävernick

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Walter Hävernick (born January 23, 1905 in Hamburg ; † January 23, 1983 there ) was a German numismatist and folklorist . From 1946 to 1973 he was director of the Museum for Hamburg History .

Live and act

After studying (1924-1929) at the universities of Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, he was in 1929 in Hamburg Friedrich Keutgen with the work "The Cologne penny in the 12th and 13th centuries" doctorate , the first time a large area certificates with currency denominations together evaluated with coin treasure finds. This was followed by a four-year traineeship at the Museum of Hamburg History. From 1935 he was custodian of the ducal coin cabinet in Gotha , where he turned to the recording and listing of the coin treasures of the Middle Ages from Thuringia. 1937 Hävernick in was Otto Lauffer , the director of the Museum of Hamburg History and simultaneous professor for German Altertums- and folklore in Hamburg for "German Altertums- and folklore" habilitation . Since 1943, after a renewed habilitation process, he held the Venia legendi for “Numismatics and Monetary History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times” at the University of Jena and taught there as a lecturer.

In 1945 Hävernick returned to Hamburg, received his habilitation, and began working as a private lecturer in numismatics at the University of Hamburg in the 1945/46 winter semester. In 1946 he was initially entrusted with the management of the Museum of Hamburg History on a provisional basis, and on April 1, 1947 he succeeded Lauffer both as museum director and as professor of folklore, in 1973 he retired. At the same time he founded the "Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics", which became the leading German scientific journal for numismatics for several decades. Even if his own numismatic-scientific publications became rarer due to time constraints, Hävernick had a significant influence through scientific organization. As part of his teaching activities, he founded the so-called Hamburg School, at which several important doctoral procedures took place up until the 1950s, most of which were published as part of the "Numismatic Studies" newly founded in 1951. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1950, together with Hans Gebhart (Munich) and with the support of the Standing Conference of Education Ministers, he created the Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany , whose task was to coordinate the activities of the coin cabinets distributed across the various Länder . Hävernick was its first chairman until 1974. The Numismatic Commission has named the Walter Hävernick Prize, a prize for young talent in his honor, which was first awarded in 2012. The winners also receive a medal created in 2015 by the Halle medalist Carsten Theumer.

Pillow stone Prof. Dr. Walter Hävernick

The contacts to western countries, which had completely broken away during the Nazi era , were also rebuilt by him; from 1953 to 1973 Hävernick was a member of the board of the International Numismatic Commission. The cooperation he initiated with Sweden to record German Viking Age coins from Swedish finds was exemplary.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Hävernick withdrew a little from numismatic events and increasingly turned to folklore , especially research on the present. His book Beatings as Punishment was seen as an advocate of educational abuse and was harshly criticized in educational, psychological (for example "Psyche") and legal magazines.

Hävernick died in 1983 on his birthday in Hamburg. He was buried in the Hävernick family grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (north of the water tower ): Grave location R24-132, pillow stone.

In his honor, the fire-fighting boat “Feuerwehr IV” built by the Hamburg shipyard August Pahl was renamed “Walter Hävernick” in 1984 . The boat is a listed building and is located in the museum harbor Övelgönne .

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Contributions to German folklore and antiquity. 19, 1980, pp. 187-214.

  • The Cologne Pfennig in the 12th and 13th centuries. Period of the territorial penny coin (= quarterly for social and economic history . Supplements. 18). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930, (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1984, ISBN 3-487-07434-6 ; also: Hamburg, Universität, dissertation, 1929).
  • Coin calls in West Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Quarterly for social and economic history. Vol. 24, No. 2, 1931, pp. 129-141, JSTOR 20726353 .
  • Walter Hävernick: The coinage of the Staufer period in the landscape between the Rhine, Main and Lahn . In: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischer Geschichtsverein , 32 (1934), pp. 36–48.
  • The coins of Cologne. The royal and archiepiscopal issues of the Cologne mint, as well as the issues of the mints of the Archbishopric of Cologne. From the start of minting until 1304 (= The coins and medals of Cologne. 1, ZDB -ID 1046990-4 ). Neubner, Cologne 1935.
  • The older coinage of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century (= The Hessian coinage. 1 = Publication of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. 18, 1, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1936, (annotated new edition with biographical foreword by Niklot Klüßendorf . 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-24-3 ).
  • "Beatings" as punishment. Part of today's family custom from a folklore point of view (= Folklore Studies. 2, ZDB -ID 503244-1 ). Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1964, (4th edition, ibid 1970).
  • Numismatics - Task and Experience 1920–1973. A personal final report. Hamburger Museumsverein, Hamburg 1975, (autobiographical essay).

literature

  • Peter Berghaus , Gert Hatz (ed.): Dona Numismatica. Walter Hävernick on January 23, 1965. Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1965.
  • Peter Berghaus: Numismatist in portrait: 18. Walter Hävernick January 23, 1905 Hamburg - January 23, 1983 Hamburg. In: Monetary History News . No. 156, 1993, pp. 166-172.
  • Gert Hatz: Walter Hävernick. 1905 - January 23 - 1983. In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt . Vol. 54, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1–2, ( PDF ( Memento of December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )).
  • Niklot Klüßendorf : Walter Hävernick (1905–1983). Life, work and impact against the backdrop of the Wetterau corpus. In: Walter Hävernick: The older coinage of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century. Annotated new edition with biographical foreword. 2nd revised and supplemented edition. Historical Commission for Hessen, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-24-3 , Part I, pp. 3 * -42 *.
  • Chastisement by mother . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1964 ( online - April 22, 1964 , review of Walter Hävernick: "Beats as punishment").
  • Ralf Wiechmann: Hävernick, Walter. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Vol. 7, Wallstein, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , pp. 126–128.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Fireboat "Fire Brigade IV"
  2. ^ Fireboat "Feuerwehr IV" or "Walter Hävernick" in the database for cultural property protection Germany
  3. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 483.
personal data
SURNAME Hävernick, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German numismatist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1983
Place of death Hamburg