Arnold Killisch von Horn

Arnold Killisch von Horn (born June 19, 1862 in Pankow near Berlin , Prussia , † December 1939 ), born as Hans Max Arnold Killisch-Horn , was a German publisher .

Life

origin

Killisch-Horn was born as one of seven (possibly even nine) children of the Berlin journalist and newspaper entrepreneur Hermann Killisch-Horn and his wife Marie Antonie, née Weigel. His siblings are Kurt (* August 31, 1856; † April 15, 1915), Georg (* July 1, 1859), Elsbeth, called "Else" (* October 12, 1860), Arnold (* June 19, 1862) , Gertrud (* April 18, 1864), Erich (* October 8, 1865) and Günther (* May 16, 1870).

On October 29, 1908, he married Lucie Arndt in Pankow (born December 11, 1886 in Berlin). With this he had two children, Elsa (born May 10, 1910 in Budapest) and Krafft (born October 18, 1916 in Berlin).

Career

After attending school and obtaining his school- leaving certificate , Arnold Killisch-Horn studied philosophy with a focus on law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , like his father did. There he received his doctorate in law .

On February 25, 1889 Arnold Killisch-Horn lost his Prussian citizenship; after completing his studies he had changed his registration from Berlin to Friedrichroda in order to assert the nobility diploma he had bought from his father in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . In Prussia, the family had repeatedly been prohibited from using the nobility predicate from 1852 onwards. For this reason, on May 2, 1883, his mother and six siblings had renounced Prussian citizenship in favor of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His father Hermann Killisch-Horn had previously formally applied to the Berlin police headquarters on March 3, 1881 for “release from the Prussian subject association”.

After the death of his father on November 23, 1886, his property went to his mother, his widow. These included the three residences in Pankow and Berlin, six manors in Niederlausitz and the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung founded in 1855 .

On September 11, 1889, the widow and her three sons Kurt, Arnold and Günther obtained a written confirmation from Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that the nobility diploma granted to her deceased husband and father on January 30, 1880 in return for payment. This referred explicitly to the adoption of Hermann Killisch by the largely penniless Friedrich von Horn from the West Pomeranian nobility von Horn to Ranzin , which had been arranged by Ernst von Bülow-Cummerow at the time. As a result of the adoption, Hermann Killisch was entitled from August 1852 to use the name Horn as a family name, but not the nobility predicate of . In Prussia, the nobility diploma from a foreign state such as Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was not recognized by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce until 1904 .

However, even after 1904, not all family members were treated equally in Prussia. An automatic name adjustment did not take place. Some therefore had the family name of Killisch von Horn , others the surname of Killisch-Horn (such as his younger brother Günther), and some had to deal with the Prussian authorities for years. All current bearers of the name Killisch-Horn are descendants of the branch that was founded by Hermann Killisch-Horn, or by persons by marriage.

Arnold Killisch-Horn lived in Hungary from February 1903, and his daughter was born there in 1910. His mother died on January 12, 1905, her property went in equal parts to her seven living children, two of whom, however, sold their shares in equal parts to the five others.

Arnold Killisch von Horn had left his estate in Hungary when the First World War began and returned to Berlin. When his older brother Kurt Killisch von Horn died on April 15, 1915, Arnold Killisch von Horn was appointed managing director of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung on October 1, 1916 , together with the newly appointed editor-in-chief. His marriage was divorced on December 8, 1919, and he married a second time on September 9, 1925. His wife was now Gertrud Lindner (born December 10, 1893 in Berlin).

In 1930 Arnold Killisch von Horn published a bound book on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung , which also served as a commemorative publication. In addition to a foreword by the editor, it also contains a contribution by Friedrich Bertkau on the family history of Killisch von Horn .

In December 1938, Arnold Killisch von Horn and his partner Joachim von Stülpnagel were forced to sell the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung after eighty-three years in family ownership due to political pressure . Arnold Killisch von Horn died just a year later.

literature

• Arnold Killisch von Horn (Hrsg. / Vorw.): 75 years of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung , Berlin 1930. - More than 400 pages long publication with articles on the history of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung and on aspects of public life during this period, with numerous short portraits listed companies.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Vetter: From Past Days - Attempt at a Chronicle of the Parish Dubraucke , Spremberg 1905, p. 109.
2. ^ Friedrich Bertkau: Family history of the Killisch von Horn . In: 75 Years of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung , Part I, Berlin 1930.
3. ^ Baron Klaus von Andrian-Werburg : The ennobling of Prussian subjects in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . In: Archivalische Zeitschrift , Vol. 75, Cologne 1979, pp. 1–15.
4. ↑ Christa Jansohn: Ask, and it shall be given to you . In: Franz Bosbach / John R. Davis (eds.): Divided Legacy - Common Heritage . DeGruyter Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3110918434 . P. 187.
5. ↑ GstA PK , I. HA Rep. 176 Heroldsamt No. 5040
6. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , 11th year 1917, p. 438.
7. ^ Hermann Aurich: The Killisch files . On: maerkische-landsitze.de
8. ^ Peter de Mendelssohn : Berlin newspaper city. People and Powers in the History of the German Press . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982. ISBN 3-550-07496-4 . P. 392 f.