Hans Wolfgang Quassowski

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Hans Wolfgang Peter Ludwig Quassowski (born October 27, 1890 in Harburg , today Hamburg-Harburg, † November 25, 1968 in Berlin ) was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Economics and well-known genealogist of East and West Prussian genealogy.

Life

Quassowski was the son of the king. Prussia. Lieutenant General a. D. Arthur Quassowski and his wife Herma née Jung. He attended the secondary school in Mainz and studied law and political science in Geneva , Göttingen , Heidelberg and Bonn . After the 1st state examination, his training as a court trainee was interrupted by the First World War. At the end of the war he was captain of the motor vehicle troops of the Army Telephone Abbot. 17. From April 1, 1919, he worked as a government trainee in Königsberg (Pr.) And worked temporarily at the district office in Heilsberg and the magistrate in Allenstein. After obtaining a doctorate in political science in Königsberg and a major state examination for the higher administrative service in Berlin , he was appointed as a government assessor in the Reich Ministry of Economics in 1921, where he was head of the textile industry in 1934 and head of the department for textile industry from spring 1938 the measure, calibration, fineness (precious metals), gunfire and auction system became. After the Second World War, he was in charge of the supervisory commissioner of Eichdirektion Berlin-Brandenburg from June 1 to November 15, 1945 until it due to the Soviet occupation law as foundry workers in the metal and foundry of Siemens-Schuckert Werke had to work . He later moved to West Berlin , where he had been working for the Hanover regional authority since 1950 and, from 1951, as a legal advisor at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin. In 1955 he retired.

Quassowski has made a name for himself among East and West Prussian family researchers primarily as the author of the Quassowski card index . This card index, which contains around 350,000 entries, was created primarily in the period from around 1918 to after 1945 out of broad private research interests. It contains handwritten records on family history data, mainly from East Prussia, but also from Pomerania, Danzig, Berlin and Silesia. Since many of the official and ecclesiastical sources evaluated were lost in the Second World War, this card index was used as a 24-volume reference work by the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia after his death between 1977 and 1993 . V. (VFFOW) in Hamburg with funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Most of the volumes are now only available on CD.

Publications

  • Quassowski card index - sources, materials and collections . Edited. Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia e. V., Hamburg; 24 volumes, 1977 to 1993
  • The basics of measurement and calibration law , 3rd edition 1954, Deutscher Eich-Verlag
  • The state supervision of the self-government of the cities within the scope of the urban order v. May 30, 1853 , dissertations in law and political science, Königsberg 1922
  • Extract from the history of the Quassowski family , self-published in 1918

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personal data
SURNAME Quassowski, Hans Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quassowski, Hans Wolfgang Peter Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Prussian genealogist (genealogist)
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Harburg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1968
Place of death Berlin