Otto Edler from Graeve

Otto Edler from Graeve

Otto Edler von Graeve (born July 22, 1872 in Gotteswalde , Mohrungen district , † January 10, 1948 in Heidelberg ) was a German dowser researcher .

Life

He is the son of Emil Edler von Graeve (1826-1904), who came from a family that was raised to the nobility in 1786 and who was the lord of Gotteswalde and Neuhof. The Major Otto Edler von Graeve settled after his active service in the Prussian army in the Anhalt town of Gernrode down. In 1913 he published his main work “ My dowsing rod activity . Observations in theory and practice together with an appendix: Acknowledgments, protocol of all excavations up to December 31, 1912 and statistics. "

In 1918, Graeve found a mineral spring on the Schwedderberg near Gernrode, ostensibly through walks with a divining rod , which was then used for the local outdoor pool, which was named after him, the Ottobad .

He received Lasting significance for Saxony Thermalbad Wiesenbad , where he in May 1920 on behalf of Meyer and Co. - also allegedly using his divining rod - through a bore of the engineer Röttinger from Halle (Saale) , a thermal water found, which in the time Development with 25 degrees Celsius heat flowed out 5.2 m over days and had a yield of 210 liters per minute. This spring was taken immediately afterwards in a brick well.

Due to his success, he was commissioned by the city of Reutlingen in 1920 to have drilling carried out. After he had this done in vain to a depth of 126 meters, he was expelled from the place.

He worked not only within Germany, but also abroad. B. in the USA - according to the New York Times , Graeve arrived in New York City on January 27, 1914 with the NDL liner George Washington -, on the Sinai Peninsula and in Palestine as a dowser. According to a report in the Deutsche Levante-Zeitung (No. 21/22 of Nov. 1, 1915) , Graeve had underground sites in the German temple colony on the Auguste Viktoria Foundation's property on the Mount of Olives and on that of the Syrian Orphanage Discovered watercourses.

Otto married Elsbeth Schrey on April 1, 1902 in Danzig (born October 19, 1882 in Danzig; † January 9, 1970 in Heidelberg ). With her he had seven children (four sons and three daughters).

Works

• Confirmation of successful digs is provided by the diviner's divining rod. Albrecht, Osterode undated (1911).
• The dowsing rod and its application in practice. Osterode 1911.
• My dowsing activity. Observations in theory and practice together with an appendix: Acknowledgments, protocol of all excavations up to December 31, 1912 and statistics. Müller, Gernrode 1913.
• Hildesheim , undated (1914).
• Authorities and dowsing rod. Hampel, Gernrode undated (1921).
• Excerpt from the successes of my dowsing rod activity from 1910 to 1928. Padelt, Gernrode 1928.

literature

• From home. Scientific monthly. 42 (1929), issue 2.
• Dowser successes that are not (Edler von Graeve in Altrip and Bergzabern). In: Writings of the association to clarify the question of the wishing rod. 1930, issue 13, pp. 25-28.
• Winfried Mönch: "The Lord of All Waters in the Desert": The dowser Otto Edler von Graeve in the war on the Sinai front in 1915. In: Journal for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology. Vol. 32 (1990), No. 1/2, pp. 88-98.
• Rolf Reutter: The appearance of the dowser Otto Edler von Graeve in Lindenfels 1928. In: History sheets of the Bergstrasse district. Vol. 27 (1994), p. 257.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Kampffmeyer (ed.): The world of Islam . Journal of the German Society for Islamic Studies . Volume IV, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1917, p. 91 ( online ).