Berent Schwineköper
Berent Schwineköper ( born November 8, 1912 in Magdeburg, † 8 March 1993 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German archivist and historian.
The pharmacist 's son from the capital of the Prussian province of Saxony studied history, German literature, art history and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, the University of Vienna and the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. Particularly influenced him Alfons Dopsch, Heinrich von Srbik, Hermann Heimpel and especially Percy Ernst Schramm. In 1931, he became active in the Corps Teutonia Göttingen. In 1950 he was awarded the band of the Teutonia Hercynia Göttingen. In Schramm he received his doctorate in 1937 on the subject of the glove in the right offices nature, customs and people of faith.
After he had from 1939 to 1941 attended the Prussian Institute for Archival Science, he was archivist at the Prussian State Archives in Berlin- Dahlem. In the Second World War, he took part as a soldier. In 1944 he was appointed on Archives at the State Archives Magdeburg, where he worked until June 1959. He played a key role in ensuring that the confiscated after the war in Saxony -Anhalt nobility archives recovered and could be obtained for future research. For the Magdeburg archive he was able to provide a complete overview of the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Magdeburg as the first state archives of the German Democratic Republic in 1954. In 1959 he left the GDR and took over the management of the municipal archives of Freiburg. He has taught since 1964 at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he received an honorary professorship in 1972.
Schwineköper conducted research in 1964 and 1984 to Magdeburg Rider. In 1972 he presented a history of the Magdeburg cathedral chapter of St. Moritz and the rest of Magdeburg pins in the prestigious series Germania Sacra in two volumes. His 1977 published illustration kingdom and cities until the end of the investiture controversy, in which the cities in eastern Saxony and North Thuringia are the focus, made him important in the urban history research. Schwineköper was a member of the Constance Working Group for medieval history, an extraordinary member of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and until leaving the GDR member of the Historical Commission for Saxony -Anhalt.
Writings
Monographs
- The glove in the right offices nature, custom and popular faith. 2nd edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-6019- X. ( Unverändert. Nachdr of 1938 in the New German research medieval village; Dept.. History as Vol 5 at Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin, published 1st edition )
- Kingship and cities until the end of the Investiture Controversy. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1977. ISBN 3-7995-6671-6.
- Together with Gottfried Wentz: Germania Sacra. The dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Magdeburg, Part 1: The cathedral chapter of St. Moritz in Magdeburg. Berlin in 1972, and Part 2: The Kollegiatstifter St. Sebastian, St. Nicholas, St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Gandolf in Magdeburg. Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-001811- X.
- Kingship and cities until the end of the investiture controversy. The policy of the Ottonian and Salian against expectant cities in eastern Saxony and North Thuringia. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1977, ISBN 3-7995-6671-6.
Editorial Boards
- Saxony Anhalt province ( = Handbook of Historic Places in Germany. Band 11). 2nd, revised. and supplemented edition, Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9.
- Guilds and trade associations. Commercial and industrial cooperatives in the early and high Middle Ages. Sigmaringen, 1985, ISBN 3-7995-6629-5.