Wilhelm Winkler (archivist)

Wilhelm Winkler (born May 29, 1893 in Munich ; † October 5, 1958 ) was a German archivist and director general of the Bavarian State Archives .

Life

Winkler attended the humanistic grammar school in Mannheim from 1902 to 1911 . He then studied at the University of Munich , spent the summer semester of 1913 in Bonn and in 1915 submitted his doctoral thesis to Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and the so-called aristocratic conspiracy of 1563/64 to Erich Marcks in Munich. From 1915 he was a soldier in World War I and from 1917 to 1920 he was a French prisoner of war. After completing his doctorate , he was assessor at the Bavarian Main State Archives from 1922 , and from 1926 as State Archives Councilor. In 1944 he witnessed the destruction of the Munich residence and the secret house archive he was responsible for. He was busy charting the casualties with a casualty list.

One of his tasks after the war was the reorganization of the Bavarian archives. From 1947 to 1958 he was (until 1948 only provisional) Director General of the Bavarian State Archives . After the archive and library building at Ludwigstrasse 16 had also been destroyed in the war, he managed to get the main state archive to be housed in the Arcisstrasse 12 building, one of the so-called Führerbauten . As a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History (KBL), he succeeded in getting the Historical Atlas of Bavaria published by KBL in conjunction with the Bavarian Archive Administration and the Bavarian State Surveying Office. Winkler died of a heart attack on October 5, 1958. He did not live to see the planned award of the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Since 1911 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich .

literature

• Albrecht Liess: History of the archive clearing in Bavaria. In: Journal for Bavarian State History 61 (1998), pp. 123–145 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Schottenlober: Wilhelm Winkler. May 29, 1893 - October 5, 1958. In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 55 (1959), pp. 171–173.
• Max Spindler : Wilhelm Winkler †. In: Journal for Bavarian State History 22 (1959), pp. 532-534 ( digitized version ).