August von Doerr

August Joseph (since 1896 von ) Doerr (born July 29, 1846 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 21, 1921 in Smilkau ) was a genealogist , heraldist , landowner and farmer .

biography

Doerr was the son of Karl Georg Doerr (1814–1888) and Louise Likawetz. At the age of twenty he left his home in Frankfurt with his parents and became a Swiss citizen. As early as 1870 he turned to Bohemia , where his father bought the allodial estate Smilkau - about 60 km from Prague . In addition to the management of his estate, on which he set up model farms since 1870, he devoted himself to genealogical and heraldic research.

On November 24, 1877, he married Rosa Comploir in Vienna , from which marriage a son and daughter sprang.

In the field of genealogy, he dealt with the Austrian aristocratic families , especially the area of ​​the Bohemian crown lands , and put on a comprehensive collection of notes with genealogical data. Outstanding is the publication of the work The Aristocracy of the Bohemian Crown Lands, a directory of those coats of arms and aristocratic diplomas which are entered in the Bohemian hall books of the aristocratic archives in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior in Vienna , Prague 1900. He also published the complete work Genealogical Source Material on the History of the Austrian Nobility 1927–1934.

He was a member of the scientific heraldic-genealogical associations "Adler" in Vienna and "Herold" in Berlin. In 1906 he presented the letters of nobility and coats of arms issued by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna on the basis of the Palatinate , and from 1911–1916 he dealt in several essays in the monthly newspaper of the "Adler" from the awards of nobility and coats of arms, which were sealed by the Reichshof Chancellery were.

1925 acquired Prince Jaroslav von Thun and Hohenstein (1864-1929) the estate, which in the princely archive of the family until 1945 Thun and Hohenstein on Decin Castle was kept and then in the State Regional Archives Litoměřice came.

Honors

• The large landowner Josef August Doerr from Frankfurt am Main received the nobility from Emperor Franz Joseph I on November 28, 1896 "in recognition of his many years of charitable work" . The imperial and royal letter of nobility with the signature of the emperor was dated January 26, 1897 in Vienna.
• The King of Prussia honored him with the Order of the Crown 2nd Class and the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class.
• In the "Herald" in Berlin he was since 1911 an honorary member .

Publications

Title page August von Doerr, Genealogical source material on the history of the Austrian nobility

• August von Doerr: The nobility of the Bohemian crown lands, a list of those coats of arms and nobility diplomas which are registered in the Bohemian hall books of the aristocratic archives in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior in Vienna. Publishing house Fr. Řivnáč, Prague 1900. ( digitized , digitized )
• August von Doerr: The complete work genealogical source material on the history of the Austrian nobility. 1927-1934.
• August von Doerr: Excerpt from the registers of the k. k. Court and castle parish in Vienna . In: Yearbook of the k. k. heraldic society "Adler" N. F. 12 (1902), pp. 1–74 ( Google Books ; limited preview)

literature

• Doerr August of. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 191 f. (Direct links on p. 191 , p. 192 ).
• Biographical Lexicon of Heraldists. (= J. Siebmachers Großes Wappenbuch, Volume H), published by vom Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences, edited by Jürgen Arndt with the help of Horst Hilgenberg and Marga Wehner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992, p. 108.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lot-tissimo.com: Los Wappenbrief for Josef August Doerr (accessed on June 9, 2014)
2. ↑ The splendid letter of arms and coat of arms “in perfect condition”, with a wide printed border on the entry sheet, six other printed borders and a coat of arms painting the size of a sheet by Carl Boess, executed in gold and colors (20.5: 15 cm), a total of four with calligraphic design Leaves, in German handwriting, on parchment, at the end with the handwritten signature of Emperor Franz Joseph and authentications, in violet velvet binding, with an imperial seal in a brass capsule (diameter 12 cm) on a cord and white silk moirée attachments, the whole thing in the original sheet zinc box Sold online by an antique dealer in 2014 for € 1500. Doerr's coat of arms was executed by Carl Böss (Boess) (born August 28, 1851 Vienna, † December 18, 1893 in Vienna-Inzersdorf), coat of arms painter in the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of the Interior. (Antiquariat Johannes Müller: Autographs , accessed on June 1, 2014)