Wilhelm Kohl (historian)

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Wilhelm Kohl (born December 9, 1913 in Magdeburg , † October 2, 2014 in Münster ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Wilhelm Kohl was born the son of a judge at the Magdeburg Regional Court . He attended Otto-Guericke-Oberrealschule in his hometown, where he graduated from high school in 1933. He studied Romance languages, English, German and history at the University of Halle and at the University of Göttingen .

After eight semesters, he put 1937 the state examination and was in the same year in Göttingen with the work The administration of the eastern department of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1814 PhD . He then went to the Institute for Archival Studies and Historical Studies in Berlin-Dahlem, where he took the exam as a participant in the 6th course; in 1939 it went to the State Archives in Münster . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, and in 1941 he was temporarily seconded to Münster in order to organize the relocation of the archives of the State Archives to mines and other places that were probably not affected by the bombing. In 1942 he married Anna-Luise Preußker (* 1922). As a soldier on the Eastern Front , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944. He was released in 1949 and resumed his work at the State Archives in Münster. In addition, he had worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen from 1957 . From 1966 he was a lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe , from which he was appointed honorary professor in 1969 . After it was integrated into the Westphalian Wilhelms University , he continued his teaching position there until the end of the winter semester 1982/83.

In 1970 he became head of the State Archives in Münster; In 1978 he retired. From 1978 to 2004 he headed the university archive of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

From 1970 to 1986 Kohl was the first chairman of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , of which he had been a full member since 1955; In 1989 he was elected an honorary member (with the personal designation honorary chairman). Kohl was also a member of the Prussian Historical Commission (since 1975) and the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (since 1976) and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1988).

The main focus of Kohl's work was the history of Westphalia , in particular the church history of the diocese of Münster . He is known nationwide as the author of numerous publications on the Westphalian region of the Germania Sacra and as the editor of important standard works on Westphalian history.

Wilhelm Kohl was Protestant . He died at the age of 100.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

The bibliography of Wilhelm Kohl's writings comprises well over 300 books, essays and handbook articles.

Germania Sacra , Volume 44 of the new episode
  • Christoph Bernhard von Galen . Political history of the Principality of Münster 1650–1678 . Regensberg, Münster 1964 ( digitized version ).
  • The ordination registers of the diocese of Münster 1593–1674. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia III: The historical sources of the Diocese of Münster, Volume 9), Münster 1991, XXX and 359 pp.
  • The ordination registers of the diocese of Münster 1699–1731. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia III: The historical sources of the Diocese of Münster, Volume 10), Münster 1999, XXIV and 296 pp.
  • The sister houses according to the Augustinian rule . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 1, Germania Sacra NF 3), Berlin / New York 1968 ( digitized ).
  • The monasteries of the Augustinian Canons . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 2, Germania Sacra NF 5), Berlin / New York 1971 ( digitized ).
  • The Freckenhorst (free worldly) women's monastery . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 3, Germania sacra NF 10), Berlin 1975 ( digitized version ).
  • The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster . 3 volumes. (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 4, Germania Sacra NF 17, 1–3), Berlin 1982–1989.
  • The diocese of Münster. The diocese . 4 volumes. (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 7, Germania Sacra NF 37, 1–4), Berlin 1999–2004.
  • The (free worldly) Nottuln women's monastery . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 8, Germania Sacra NF 44), Berlin 2005 ( digitized version ).
  • The collegiate monastery St. Mauritz in front of Münster . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 9, Germania Sacra NF 47), Berlin / New York 2006 ( digitized ).
  • The Cistercian, later Benedictine convent of St. Aegidii in Münster . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 10, Germania Sacra, third part 1), Berlin / New York 2009 ( digitized ).
  • The Cistercian Abbey Marienfeld . (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 11, Germania Sacra, third part 2), Berlin / New York 2010 ( digitized ).
  • Kohl wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

literature

  • Karl Hengst , Anna-Therese Grabkowsky, Hans Jürgen Brandt (eds.): Preserving and moving. Memoirs, selected essays and list of writings by a Westphalian archivist and historian. Ceremony for Wilhelm Kohl on his 85th birthday . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1998, ISBN 3-89710-070-3 (with a bibliography of Wilhelm Kohl's writings by Anna-Therese Grabkowsky, pp. 441-461).
  • Mechthild Black-Veldtrup : Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohl on completing the 100th year of life. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift , vol. 163 (2013), pp. 11–13.
  • Mechthild Black-Veldtrup: On the 100th birthday of Professor Wilhelm Kohl. In: Archivar , Vol. 66 (2013), pp. 501–502.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007 . Saur, Munich 2007, Volume II, p. 1879.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Kohl: Memoirs . In: Karl Hengst, Anna-Therese Grabkowsky, Hans Jürgen Brandt (eds.): Preserving and moving. Memoirs, selected essays and list of writings by a Westphalian archivist and historian . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1998, pp. 14–36, here p. 17.
  2. ↑ Karl Hengst, Anna-Therese Grabkowsky, Hans Jürgen Brandt (eds.): Preserving and moving. Memoirs, selected essays and list of writings by a Westphalian archivist and historian . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1998, p. 439.
  3. ↑ a b c On December 9, 2013, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohl turned 100 on the website of the archive in North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on August 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ Helga Kretzschmar: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohl turns 100 - a passionate historian , Westfälische Nachrichten, December 9, 2013.
  5. ^ University of Münster: University archivist Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohl adopted ( memento of October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), February 16, 2005; accessed on October 7, 2014.
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Kohl on the website of the Historical Commission for Westphalia, accessed on August 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Obituaries in the Westfälische Nachrichten from 6. – 8. October 2014 .
  8. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  9. ^ Paulus plaque for Wilhelm Kohl ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Kohl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 2014
Place of death Muenster