Wolf-Heino Struck

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Wolf-Heino Struck (born March 27, 1911 in Schwerin ; † August 10, 1991 in Wiesbaden ) was a German historian and archivist . He was head of the main state archive in Wiesbaden . He made a contribution to researching the history of the Lahn area .

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The son of a middle school teacher attended the Realgymnasium until 1929. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Freiburg with a focus on legal history, economics and constitutional law. From the winter semester 1929/30 up to and including the summer semester 1930 he continued his studies at the Berlin University . From the winter semester 1930/31 up to and including the summer semester 1931 he studied German, German and English in Berlin and continued his studies in Rostock in the winter semester 1931/32 . In Rostock he received his doctorate in 1935 with the work The history of medieval self-government in the Mecklenburg rural towns . A year later he passed the examination for the teaching profession in high schools.

Instead of going into teaching, Struck opted for an archive career. From April 1936 to September 1937 he attended the Institute for Archival Science and Historical Training at the Secret Main State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem . He then worked as a research assistant. From April 1938 he worked as a State Archives Assessor at the State Archives Zerbst / Anhalt . After military service and an injury in World War II , he was again employed in Zerbst until the end of 1945. From January 1948 until his retirement in 1976 he worked at the main state archive in Wiesbaden, where he was initially employed as a research assistant until 1951, then as an archivist and chief archivist until 1970 and finally as archive director until 1976. From 1971 on he headed the facility.

From 1972 to 1978 he was editor-in-chief of the Nassau Annals . Struck was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History (1932-1945), the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research and the Historical Commission for Nassau, from 1975 to 1990 was also its first chairman. In the Nassau Antiquities Association he was a board member and treasurer for many years.

In addition to the actual archive work, Struck was also involved in regional historiography in many ways. The focus was on the history of the monasteries and monasteries on the Lahn, the Peasants' War and a comprehensive description of the emigration from the Duchy of Nassau in the years 1806–1866. He came to the conclusion that in the years 1816–1845 about 16,000 and in the 20 years from 1846–1866 over 18,000, i.e. a total of 34,000 people, emigrated from the Duchy of Nassau. For the Germania Sacra project , he contributed the volumes on the Diez, Dietkrichen, Idstein and Weilburg monasteries.

For his services to history, Struck was awarded an honorary professorship by the University of Frankfurt Main in 1975 and in 1979 with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . On his 80th birthday, the 1991 volume of the Nassau Annals was dedicated to him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Wiesbaden in Biedermeier. (1818–1866) (= history of the city of Wiesbaden. Vol. 5 = Wiesbaden as the capital of Nassau. Part 2). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-03405-6 .
  • Wiesbaden in the time of Goethe. (1803-1818) (= history of the city of Wiesbaden. Vol. 4 = Wiesbaden as the capital of Nassau. Part 1). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-03220-7 .
  • Johannisberg in the Rheingau. A monastery, village, castle and wine chronicle. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7829-0191-6 .
  • The Peasants' War on the Middle Rhine and in Hesse. Presentation and sources (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 21, ISSN  0170-1568 ). Self-published by the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1975.
  • The emigration from the Duchy of Nassau. (1806-1866). A chapter of modern political and social development (= Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Vol. 4, ISSN  0072-4203 ). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1966.
  • History of Hattersheim. Municipal administration Hattersheim, Hattersheim 1964.
  • The history of medieval self-government in the Mecklenburg rural towns (= Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. Vol. 101, 1937, supplement, ISSN  0930-8229 ). Klinz, Rostock 1938, (Rostock, University, dissertation), online .

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  1. ↑ See the review by Friedrich Blendinger in: Archivalische Zeitschrift 63 (1967), pp. 237–238.
personal data
SURNAME Struck, Wolf-Heino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1991
Place of death Wiesbaden