Erich Seuberlich

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George Robert Erich Seuberlich (* February 13 jul. / 25. February  1882 greg. In Moscow ; † 27. February 1946 in Holzminden ) was a Baltic German genealogist .

Life

origin

Erich came from an originally East Prussian family who had their life and development center in Riga since the second half of the 18th century . He was a son of the chemist Carl Seuberlich (1847–1924) and Olga, geb. Eckers (1846-1890). The poet Rudolf Wilhelm Seuberlich (1841–1913) was his uncle.

Career

Seuberlich attended Karl Masing's secondary school in Moscow from 1892 to 1899 . After completing an apprenticeship, he was a correspondent in 1902 and an authorized signatory in 1905 for the “Rud. W. Seuberlich ”in Riga. In the same year he was first an office worker, then a controller of the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft in Berlin . In 1907 he was a co-founder, since 1908 also managing director of the art publisher “Bromära” ibid. Then in 1908 he founded the company “Erich Seuberlich” in Berlin, which since 1911 had its seat in Riga. He also works as a representative of the German photographic, optical and ceramic industries. From 1914 to 1915 he was deputy accountant at the City Orphan Court in Riga. In 1916 he had a job as a librarian in the Sivers'sche scientific library in Rappin . Since 1917 he worked in the commercial sector. In 1920 he was in Riga together with the German-Baltic Emergency Committee founder and until 1923 head of a sales agency. From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Latvian People's Council . Since 1923 he was on the church council of St. Jakobi Church .

Seuberlich was a passionate genealogist. In 1912 he founded in conjunction with the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia , of which he was a member since 1904 and treasurer in 1932, the "Information Center for Baltic Personal Studies ". From 1935 to 1939 he was the owner of the first state-licensed office for family research and from 1940 to 1945 he was a clan researcher in Poznan .

family

Seuberlich first married Margarethe Lementy (* 1882) in 1905 and after the divorce in 1914 with Edith Fuchs (* 1882). From the first marriage there is a son, from the second the professional officer and writer Hans Erich Seuberlich (1920–1984) and two daughters emerged.

Works

In addition to various relevant family and personal studies and essays, his main work, the family tables of the German-Baltic genders , in 3 volumes, Riga and Leipzig ( 1924 , 1927 , 1931 ), should be emphasized.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Robert Erich Seuberlich. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. Erich Seuberlich: Family Tables of German-Baltic Sexes , Volume 2, Leipzig 1927, Col. 421-422.
  3. Erich Seuberlich: Family Tables of German-Baltic Sexes , Volume 2, Leipzig 1927, Col. 426-428.