Ludwig Hänselmann

4 March 1834-22 March 1904, born and died in Braunschweig, Germany.

Historian and first Archivist of the City of Braunschweig.

Hänselmann learned the archival practice at the Grand Ducal Secret Main Archives in Schwerin, before he returned to Braunschweig in late 1859. He recorded since March 1860 the files of the city, which was preparing for the millennial city anniversary in 1861. In 1862 he was appointed director of the "Municipal Collections" in the New Town Hall, which included the city archives, the city library and the municipal museum (until 1898). He held this office until his death in 1904. During this time he strongly supported the return of municipal archives, which had been removed from the city after the subjugation of Brunswick in 1671. Hänselmann was 1865 "city archivist", received in 1886 by the regent Prince Albrecht the title of professor and in 1887 honorary doctor of the law faculty of the University of Göttingen. In 1878 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

More information on the German Wikipedia page