Walter Heinemeyer

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Walter Heinemeyer (born August 5, 1912 in Eimelrod ; † April 26, 2001 in Marburg ) was a German historian and archivist .

The son of the teacher Karl Heinemeyer attended high schools in Jena . There was Otto Dobenecker his teacher. He graduated from high school in Hersfeld . From 1931 to the winter semester of 1935/36 he studied history, German and Latin at the universities of Göttingen , Vienna , Innsbruck and again Göttingen. Heinemeyer joined the NSDAP in 1933 . He received his doctorate in February 1935 at the University of Göttingen as a student of Alfred Hessel and Karl Brandi . In December 1935 he passed the state examination for teaching at higher schools in Göttingen. From April 1936 to March 1938 he trained as a scientific archivist at the Institute for Archival Science and Historical Studies .

At the end of 1945 he was able to return to Eschwege from captivity . From 1947 to 1963 he was the Hessian state archivist, from 1949 at the Marburg State Archives , since 1952 as a lecturer in historical auxiliary sciences at the Marburg Archive School . Since the summer semester of 1956 he had a teaching position for historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Marburg. There he was appointed honorary professor in 1960. From 1963 he taught as an associate professor and from 1966 as a full professor for historical auxiliary sciences and archival science at the University of Marburg . He was also co-director of the Institute for Medieval History, Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Historical Regional Studies as well as director of the photo archive of older original documents. In Marburg, he was dean of the history department in 1971/72 and 1975/76. From 1963 he was editor of the Archives for Diplomatics for many years ; In addition to his studies on the diplomacy of medieval treaties , studies on the history of Gothic document writing are part of the standard literature . In September 1980 he retired. As an academic teacher, he supervised 18 dissertations.

From 1958 to 1967 Heinemeyer was chairman of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , of which he became an honorary member in 1969. He was chairman of the general association of German history and antiquity associations (1968–1985). Heinemeyer worked for the Historical Commission for Hesse for many years . He became a scientific member in 1950, was its chairman from 1963 to 1999 and became an honorary member in 1999. He was also chairman of the working group for editing principles , which in 1965 published the guidelines for the registration of documents. In 1967 he was elected a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Heinemeyer was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983 and the Georg Landau Medal in 1984 . In addition, he received the Goethe plaque from the State of Hesse in 1982 . His son Karl Heinemeyer is also a historian.

Fonts (selection)

A list of writings from 1978 to 1992 appeared in Rainer Birkelbach: Directory of the writings of Walter Heinemeyer 1978 / 1979–1992. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. 97, 1992, pp. 21-24.

  • Studies of diplomacy in medieval treaties, mainly from the 13th century. In: Archive for document research. 14, 1936, pp. 321–413 (also dissertation)
  • Studies on the history of Gothic document writing. Böhlau, Cologne 1962 (2nd expanded edition 1982).
  • “For love, for the safety and honor of the monastery”. Forgery of documents and early history of Hessian and Thuringian monasteries (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , vol. 77). Published by Hans-Peter Lachmann. Historical Commission for Hessen, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942225-15-1 (with list of publications pp. 441–457).

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Kahlfuß : State history and history associations in Hesse in encounter. In honor of Walter Heinemeyer. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. 97, 1992, pp. 15-19.
  • Theo Kölzer : Walter Heinemeyer and the "Archives for Diplomatics". In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 63, 2013, pp. 237-249.
  • Ottfried Dascher : Walter Heinemeyer †. In: The archivist. Bulletin for German archives. 56, 2003, issue 1, pp. 93-94.
  • Irmgard Fees : Walter Heinemeyer and the historical auxiliary sciences. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 63, 2013, pp. 215-235.
  • Hans-Jürgen Kahlfuß: In memoriam Professor Dr. Walter Heinemeyer. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History. 106, 2001, pp. 309-311 ( online ).
  • Hans-Peter Lachmann: Walter Heinemeyer †. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 51, 2001, pp. XVII-XIX.
  • Peter Rück (Ed.): Mabillons Spur. Twenty-two miscells from the field of historical auxiliary sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg. For Walter Heinemeyer's 80th birthday. Institute for Historical Auxiliary Sciences, Marburg an der Lahn 1992, ISBN 3-8185-0121-1 .
  • Hugo Stehkämper : Obituary Walter Heinmeyer * August 5, 1913 - † April 26, 2001. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte . 137, 2001, pp. VII-X ( online ).

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Remarks

  1. ^ Wilfried Reininghaus : Walter Heinemeyer and the (Hessian) regional history. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . 63, 2013, pp. 203-213, here: p. 211; Anne Christine Nagel : In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 38, note 49.
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Lachmann: Walter Heinemeyer †. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 51, 2001, pp. XVII – XIX, here: XIX.
personal data
SURNAME Heinemeyer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Eimelrod, district of Willingen (Upland)
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2001
Place of death Marburg