Götz von Houwald

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Maximilian Otto Gustav Albrecht Hubert Wilhelm Götz-Dieter Freiherr von Houwald (born May 13, 1913 in Posen , † August 16, 2001 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German diplomat , ethnologist and historian .

Life

Götz von Houwald was born as the son of Albrecht Freiherr von Houwald and Helene Countess von Carmer. His father was a senior judicial officer , member of the Prussian heraldry and genealogist . Götz von Houwald grew up in Berlin , Potsdam and on the estate of the Houwalds in Neuhaus Castle in Steinkirchen (today in Lübben (Spreewald) ). In 1934 he made his Abitur at the Paul Gerhardt School in Lübben. Then he studied law and newspaper sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . Then he began the legal preparatory service . He became a trainee lawyer in Strausberg and Düsseldorf and was appointed assessor before he took up military service in the Air Force in 1940 . In 1944, he fell into North Africa to US and British captivity . A camp revolt he instigated and an attempt to flee were unsuccessful and resulted in an extended and tightened detention.

He was released in mid-1948 and temporarily worked as a night porter in Frankfurt am Main . After a short journalistic activity, he joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1952 he was appointed counselor in Lima , Peru , in 1961 he came to Dublin , Ireland and in 1966 he became ambassador in Bangui , Central African Republic . In 1954 he received the Order of El Sol del Perú , in 1961 the Officer's Cross of the Argentine Order de Mayo al Mérito and in 1969 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. In the same year he became ambassador to Managua , Nicaragua . In addition to his diplomatic duties, he also dealt with German immigrants and the Indian inhabitants of the country, especially the Sumu Indians (also Mayangna ). He had a lifelong friendship with the young Indian Francisco Rener. This often provided him with information and connections. Retired in 1975, Houwald studied Ethnology and Hispanic Studies at the University of Bonn . There he completed his doctorate in 1978 on the previously unprinted report by Nicolás de Valenzuelas on the conquest of the last independent Mayan state at the end of the 17th century. Then he turned back to the Indians. He became a historian and ethnographer of Central America, a lecturer in the USA and advocated Indian culture and the Indian tribes of Latin America. Until the end of his life, he remained a consultant for development aid projects and young researchers who wanted to work in Nicaragua.

Houwald was also a genealogist and historian of Niederlausitz . Based on his father's material collections, he wrote seven volumes on the Niederlausitz manors . In addition, he was chairman of the Houwald Family Association for many years. He could no longer complete the publication of the seven Homagial books from Niederlausitz from 1637 to 1796. He succumbed to the August 16, 2001 of cancer . On October 6, 2001, his ashes were buried in the von Patow family cemetery in Groß Jehser (district of Calau ). His academic legacy went to the Lübben City and Regional Museum in 2002 .

Works

  • Contributions to the family history of the counts, barons and lords of Houwald . Self-published, 8 issues, 1963–1983
  • Los alemanes en Nicaragua (= Colección Cultural, Volume 2). Banco de America, Managua 1975, 2nd edition 1993; German as: German life in Nicaragua. Fates of emigrants. Nicaragua Society, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-925-290-60-5
  • Ancestors and grandsons of Johann Heinrich Casimir Graf v. Carmer. Royal Prussian Minister of Justice and Grand Chancellor (1721–1801) . Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1977
  • The Niederlausitz manors and their owners . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch
    • Volume 1 Spremberg district . 1978, ISBN 3-7686-4082-5 (= Library of Family History Sources, Volume 22)
    • Volume 2 Sorau District . 1981, ISBN 3-7686-4094-9 (= Library of Family History Sources, Volume 26)
    • Volume 3 of the Lübben district . 1984, ISBN 3-7686-4109-0 (= Library of Family History Sources, Volume 32)
    • Volume 4 Kalau District, Part 1 . 1988, ISBN 3-7686-4120-1 (= library of family history sources, volume 34)
    • Volume 4 Kalau District, Part 2 . 1992, ISBN 3-7686-4130-9 (= library of family history sources, volume 35)
    • Volume 5 Luckau district . 1996, ISBN 3-7686-4145-7 (= library of family history sources, volume 37)
    • Volume 6 Guben district . 1999, ISBN 3-7686-4199-6 (= library of family history sources, volume 38)
    • Volume 7 Kottbus District . 2001, ISBN 3-7686-4206-2 (= Library of Family History Sources, Volume 39)
  • Nicolás de Valenzuela: Conquista del Lacandón y conquista del Chol. Relación sobre la expedición de 1695 contra los Lacandones e Itzá según el "Manuscrito de Berlin" (= Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, Volume 28). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7678-0485-9 , also dissertation, Bonn 1978
  • Diccionario Español-Sumu, Sumu-Español . Ministerio de Educación, [La Habana] 1980
  • with Francisco Rener: Mayangna yulnina kulna balna = Tradiciones orales de los indios Sumus = Oral traditions of the Sumu Indians (= Bonn American Studies, Volume 11). Seminar for Ethnology, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-86097-305-3
  • Mayangna = we. On the history of the Sumu Indians in Central America (= Contributions to Central American Ethnology, Volume 19). Renner, Hohenschäftlarn near Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87673-134-8 ; Spanish as: Mayangna. Apuntes sobre la historia de los indígenas Sumu en Centroamérica . Fundación Vida, Managua 2003, ISBN 99924-53-15-X
  • Eduard Conzemius (author), Götz Freiherr von Houwald (ed.) And Berthold Riese (ed.): Place name dictionary of the Mosquito coast . Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1997, ISBN 3-88345-729-9

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Houwald, Albrecht Freiherr v. January 11, 2001
  2. ^ Register of the feudal silk made by the manor owners

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personal data
SURNAME Houwald, Götz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houwald, Maximilian Otto Gustav Albrecht Hubert Wilhelm Götz-Dieter Freiherr von (full name); Houwald, Götz Freiherr von; Houwald, Götz-Dieter Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ethnologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2001
Place of death Bonn-Bad Godesberg