Wolf-Arno Kropat
Wolf-Arno Kropat (born August 17, 1932 in Görlitz , † April 14, 2004 ) was a German historian and archivist .
After studying history, Latin and philosophy in Marburg and Freiburg im Breisgau , he received his doctorate in 1962 on "Empire, nobility and church in the Wetterau from the Carolingian era to the late Middle Ages". From 1962 to 1964 he was a trainee lawyer at the Hessian Main State Archives in Wiesbaden , where he was also taken on after his training. In 1976 he became head of the Hessian Main State Archives. He held this office until December 31, 1995.
His historical interest in the main state archive was in the 19th and especially the 20th century. Current topics such as B. the fate of the Hessian Jews or the early history of the state of Hesse .
From 1990 to 2004 he was chairman of the historical commission for Nassau , which he opened for the history of the state of Hesse as a whole. Kropat also played a key role in the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse . His involvement in the commission of the Hessian state parliament for research into the political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse, in the creation of which he played a major role in 1979, was similarly trend-setting. Since 1976 he was also on the board of the Association for Nassau Classical Studies and Historical Research .
literature
- Helmut Berding : Wolf-Arno Kropat † In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . 54 (2004), pp. XIX-XXI.
- Winfried Schüler: Nekrolog Ltd. Archive director a. D. Wolf-Arno Kropat. In: Nassauische Annalen 116 (2005), pp. 597-599.
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| SURNAME | Kropat, Wolf-Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2004 |