Wilhelm Lenz (historian, 1906)

Wilhelm Theodor Georg Lenz (born July 24, 1906 in Wenden , Latvia , † September 10, 1976 in Lübeck ) was a German-Baltic historian .

Life

Lenz came from a German-Baltic family. His parents were the doctor Wilhelm Lenz and Marie Louise von Petersenn. He himself married Ilse von Boetticher in Wenden in 1931 . The marriage resulted in 5 children, including Wilhelm Lenz , who also became a historian. Lenz completed his school education in Riga . He then studied history in Dorpat from 1923 to 1924 and with Professor Johannes Haller in Tübingen from 1924 to 1928 . He completed his studies with the doctorate to Dr. phil. from. From 1929 to 1938 Lenz was a teacher at the Academia Petrina inMitau . From 1938 to 1939 he was a research assistant at the historical research center of the Herder Institute (Riga) and at the same time head of the cultural office of the German national community in Latvia . As a result of the resettlement under the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty , Lenz became department head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in 1939 , immigration advice in the Poznan branch . Again at the same time he was head of the collection point for Baltic German cultural property. From 1941 to 1944 he was an advisor to the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Eastern Territories in Riga, Hinrich Lohse . After the war , Lenz was district archivist in Otterndorf from 1948 to 1968 . Since 1968 he lived in Lübeck. Lenz was a member and from 1973 honorary member of the Baltic Historical Commission and sat on the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony .

Publications

In addition to numerous treatises on Baltic history and the history of Hadeln , Lenz has published the following works:

• Foreign policy of the Livonian order master Walter von Plettenberg until 1510 , Tübingen (1928)
• The Baltic literary class , (1953)
• The development of Riga into a big city , (1954)
• Baltic German Biographical Lexicon , (1970)

literature

• Erik Amburger : The pastors of the Protestant churches in Russia from the end of the 16th century to 1937. A biographical lexicon. Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg; Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 1998
• Edgars Andersons: Latvju enciklopedija. 1962-1982. America's latviesu apvienibas, Rockville 1983–1990
• Kurt Galling : Religion in the past and present . 3rd edition, Tübingen 1957-1965
• Paul Kaegbein and Wilhelm Lenz (editors): Four decades of Baltic historical research. Cologne 1992
• Paul Kaegbein, Wilhelm Lenz: Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947-1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997
• Wilhelm Lenz (editor): Album Livonorum. [Lübeck] 1972; Addendum: Urfeld 1991
• Viljars Tooms: Vidusvizemnieku biografiska vardnica. Harmonija, Cesis 2003

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Wilhelm Lenz. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital