Hermann Friedrich Macco

Hermann Friedrich Macco (born July 13, 1864 in Aachen , † January 14, 1946 in Stuttgart ) was a German historian and genealogist .

Live and act

Macco was the son of the businessman Albert Gustav Ferdinand Macco (1829-1897) from Jülich and Maria Elise Mappes from Frankfurt (1834-1918) and the brother of the painter Georg Macco . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied art history and archeology in Aachen and history in Heidelberg . He then worked at the State Archives in Wetzlar before working in Aachen with brief interruptions until around the mid-1920s.

Macco specialized in the field of family research and in particular on researching the patrician society from Aachen and the Rhineland . During this time Macco wrote several important publications, some of which had several volumes, in which he presented more than 1000 families genealogically and historically. He also wrote numerous individual articles , mainly about local historical events and noble residences, for the journal of the Aachen History Association and other specialist journals. In addition to his membership in the Aachen History Association, he also joined the West German Society for Family Studies and the Royal Dutch Cooperative for Family Studies and Heraldry .

Macco was married to Carole Sachs (1872–1915) from Nuremberg since 1893 . After 1924 he moved permanently to Berlin , where he had already worked once in the course of 1908/09. There he married Anna Müller from Berlin-Schöneberg for the second time in 1927 . In Berlin, Macco worked with the Saxon State Association for Family Research , the Association for the History of Berlin , the Berlin Association for Family Research and the Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences (HEROLD). In the HEROLD he mainly worked on the register of heraldic pictures and wrote numerous heraldic articles. On December 6, 1904, he was made an honorary member of the association.

Macco also carried out commissioned genealogical research for the German-Argentine entrepreneur Richard (Ricardo) Wilhelm Staudt , who was close to National Socialism at the time . Several publications grew out of this collaboration. In 1932 Hermann Friedrich Macco lived in Berlin-Steglitz and held the title of professor. In 1940 he was referred to as a professor abroad. He died on January 14, 1946 in Stuttgart. The genealogical estate was purchased by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS . German-speaking members of the association put together a six-volume publication on Swiss emigrants and Huguenot families from the estate, which was published in Salt Lake City in 1954 .

A son of Macco's first marriage, Dr. rer. pole. Hans Macco (born August 27, 1894 in Aachen), published writings on genealogy and racial problems at the beginning of the Nazi era , and spoke out in favor of the sterilization of Rhineland bastards .

Fonts (selection)

Contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish noble and patrician families , Volume 1, self-published, Aachen, 1884

Contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish aristocratic and patrician families , Volume 2, self-published, Aachen, 1887 ( digitized version )

History and genealogy of the Peltzer families , contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish aristocratic and patrician families , Volume 3, C. Georgi, Aachen, 1901 ( digitized version )

History and genealogy of the Pastor family , contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish noble and patrician families , Volume 4, C. Georgi, Aachen, 1905

The Jülich family von Werth , C. Georgi, Aachen, 1904

Kalkofen Castle and its owners , C. Georgi, Aachen, 1904

Protestant Aachen emigrants from the second half of the 17th century , Aachen 1906

On the history of the Reformation in Aachen during the 16th century: A critical study , Aachener Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft, 1907

Aachen coat of arms and genealogies, a contribution to heraldry and genealogy of Aachen, Limburg and Jülich families , two volumes, Aachen, 1907/1908 ( digitized second volume )

The portrait of Queen Luise , painted from life by Alexander Macco in 1800 , Central and State Library Berlin, 1908

Castles and palaces in the former Aachen Empire , Berlin-Steglitz, 1908

The descent of the 5th German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg from Aachen patrician families of the 15th century , Berlin, 1909

History of the Wuppermann family , self-published, Aachen, 1911

On the family history of Clouth in the Rhineland , Aachen publishing and printing company, 1916

Family tree of the von Marcken zu Marcken family, called Merckens since 1600 , Aachener Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft, 1923

The German ancestry of the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover , in: Der Deutsche Herold, No. 60, No. 6, 1929 and No. 61, No. 2,4,6, Berlin, 1930

Hermann Friedrich Macco (arr.); Ricardo Wilhelm Staudt (ed. And translator): The Church Visitations of the Deanery of Kusel in the Palatinate 1609 , Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1930

Swiss Emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America 1650-1800 and Huguenots in the Palatinate and Germany (Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate and America 1650-1800 and Huguenots in the Palatinate and Germany), Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 6 volumes, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1954, posthumously [FHL microfilm numbers 0823861 and 0823862]

Literature and Sources

Albrecht Macco: The Macco family, early history, Löwensteiner line, Weikersheimer line. Brief overview, Cologne 1940.
By Anon: Kurzvita, engl., In: Passing Through Germany. Hesperides Print, Terramar office Berlin 2006, ISBN 1-4067-3249-4 , p. 222.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Although Macco is supposed to have been a member and honorary member of several unspecified domestic and foreign scientific societies according to the short vita in von Anon's publication “ Passing Through Germany ”, the sources have so far been contradictory. In Don Yoder's short vita in the preface to the second edition of Palatine Church Visitations, 1609. Deanery of Kusel , Baltimore 1980, p. Vii, he is - in contrast to the above information - as Dr. Hermann Friedrich Macco (1864–1945) and son of the engineer Dr. Heinrich Macco (1843–1920) .
↑ Heimatblatt des Remigiuslandes , 11th year, No. 1, Kusel 1932, book review
^ Albrecht Macco: The Macco family, early history, Löwensteiner line, Weikersheimer line. Brief overview, Cologne 1940
↑ Hans Macco: Racial Problems in the Third Reich , Berlin (1934). Excerpt in English Translation, PDF

personal data
SURNAME	Macco, Hermann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1946
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Although Macco is supposed to have been a member and honorary member of several unspecified domestic and foreign scientific societies according to the short vita in von Anon's publication “ Passing Through Germany ”, the sources have so far been contradictory. In Don Yoder's short vita in the preface to the second edition of Palatine Church Visitations, 1609. Deanery of Kusel , Baltimore 1980, p. Vii, he is - in contrast to the above information - as Dr. Hermann Friedrich Macco (1864–1945) and son of the engineer Dr. Heinrich Macco (1843–1920) .

[2] Heimatblatt des Remigiuslandes , 11th year, No. 1, Kusel 1932, book review

[3] Albrecht Macco: The Macco family, early history, Löwensteiner line, Weikersheimer line. Brief overview, Cologne 1940

[4] Hans Macco: Racial Problems in the Third Reich , Berlin (1934). Excerpt in English Translation, PDF