Klaus Mlynek

Klaus Mlynek (born 16 January 1936)[1][2] is a German historian amd scientific archivist. The long-term director of the Stadtarchiv Hannover is one of the editors and authors of the Stadtlexikon Hannover, an encyclopdia of Hanover.

Klaus Mlynek in 2018

Life

Boen in Posen (now Poznań, Poland), Mlynek studied history, History of Christianity and history of law at the University of Jena and archival science at the Institut für Archivwissenschaft (Potsdam), completing with the Staatsexamen in 1957. The following year, he received his diploma as scientific archivist. The doctorate followed in 1961.

After working at the Deutsches Zentralarchiv (Postdam) and the archive of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin from 1977 to 1997[3] Mylnek was director of the archives of Hanover. His focus of research have been aspects of Hanover's urban history.

Publications

Mlynek worked with Waldemar R. Röhrbein, the long-standing director of the Historisches Museum Hannover, on several publications:

  • 1994: Geschichte der Stadt Hannover, Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft[4]
    • Vol. 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts.[5] in collaboration with Helmut Plath, Siegfried Müller and Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer, ISBN 3-87706-351-9
    • Vol. 2: Vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart, in collaboration with Dieter Brosius, ISBN 3-87706-364-0

He worked on other publications after he retired:

  • 2001: Hannover Chronik
  • 2002: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon
  • 2009: Stadtlexikon Hannover.
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References
  1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek zu Biographien Niedersachsen http://www.nlb-hannover.de/nis/niedersaechsische_personen/
  2. Die Leute können doch rechnen – Historiker Klaus Mlynek über ein ungerades Jubiläum. Interview by Simon Benne. In Hannoversche Allgemeine dated 27 May 2016 (Online-Fassung auf www.pressreader.com; retrieved 23 July 2020)
  3. The Stadtlexikon Hannover calls "1997" (back cover and p. 702), the database of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library "1999" under the bibliography result: Karljosef Kreter, Gerhard Schneider (eds.): Stadt und Überlieferung. Commemorative publication for Klaus Mlynek, in Hannoversche Studien, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1999, ISBN 3-7752-4957-5
  4. Geschichte der Stadt Hannover on WorldCat
  5. Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts on WorldCaat
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