Wilhelm Kisky

Wilhelm Kisky (born November 29, 1881 in Cologne , † April 30, 1953 ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Wilhelm Kisky was a son of the Cologne printer Joseph Kisky and his wife Gertrud Kautz. After attending high school in Cologne, he studied history and historical auxiliary sciences in Freiburg , Berlin and Bonn . Kisky received his doctorate under Aloys Schulte in 1906. The Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde then commissioned him to process the regests of the Archbishops of Cologne in the Middle Ages.

In 1913 Kisky became director of the archives of the Princes zu Salm-Salm in Anholt . During the First World War he was employed in the administration of the General Government of Belgium .

In December 1920, Kisky came to the newly created Reichsarchiv in Potsdam , but left it after four years to devote himself to his academic studies on Rhenish history and the Catholic press. In 1928 the Rhenish provincial administration founded an archive advice center and made Kisky its head. During the Second World War , the advice center took care of the relocation of valuable archive material to castles of the Rhenish nobility and dealt with archive maintenance in Luxembourg . After the war, the advice center was raised to the state archive administration of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1951 Wilhelm Kisky retired, two years later he died after a long and serious illness.

family

Wilhelm Kisky had been married to Margarete Becker since 1910 and had the children Margareta (* 1911), Wilma (* 1913) and Hans (1920–1965) with her.

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 , Vol. 5: T – Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, by Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 448 f.

Web links

• Portal Rhenish History