John Muhl

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John Muhl

John Muhl (born June 18, 1879 at Gut Lagschau near Klein Trampken , Danziger Höhe district ; † February 2, 1943 in Danzig ) was a German public prosecutor and police officer. He was the authoritative national historian of Gdansk and its surroundings.

Life

Muhl came from a Danzig patrician family who immigrated from Hamburg in 1711. His parents were the manor owner Adolf Muhl and his wife Elisabeth born. Slate.

After graduating from the Academic Gymnasium Gdansk , he began to study law at the University of Jena . In 1900 he was in the Corps Thuringia Jena recipiert . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle . After the legal traineeship (1903) he was at the district court in Putzig . In 1907 he passed the great state examination in law. Then he was assessor at the court and public prosecutor's office in Danzig , Konitz and Elbing . He was appointed public prosecutor in Gdansk in 1914. He spent the First World War on the Romanian theater of war . Then he was temporarily involved in the German National People's Party . In Langfuhr he was its chairman. From 1919 he worked part-time in the provincial administration, from 1921 as deputy state councilor. In the Free City of Danzig he was promoted to First Public Prosecutor on July 1, 1924, and in October 1924 he was entrusted with the management of the state criminal police. On July 1, 1926, he was appointed its director. From 1935 to 1943 he was chairman of the Society for Family Research, Coat of Arms and Seal Studies in Gdansk and editor of the genealogical journal Danziger Familiengeschichtliche Posts . He died at the age of 64.

bibliography

In 2016, the museum in the former Stutthof concentration camp published an annotated and illustrated complete translation of Muhl's book Geschichte von Stutthof (1928). In contrast to the original edition, it has been supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography and an extensive list of names.

Books / articles about the police history of Gdańsk

  • The story of the police of the Free City of Gdansk . 1926.
  • The State Criminal Police of the Free City of Gdansk . 1927.
  • The Gdańsk Police through the ages . Homeland papers of the German Homeland League Danzig, 1929.

Books / articles about Gdansk surroundings

  • Excursions to the Danzig area and the Werder area . 1922.
  • History of the Sobbowitz Domain 1925, sources and descriptions of the history of West Prussia . Studies on the history of West Prussian goods, 11, 1926, 1.
  • History of the Wartsch estate . Sources and representations on the history of West Prussia, studies on the history of West Prussian goods, 11, 1926, 2.
  • History of Stutthof 1928. Sources and representations on the history of West Prussia, studies on the history of West Prussian goods, 11, 1926, 3.
  • Die Danziger Höhe 1935. Issue 13, Guide to the State Museum of Gdansk History, vol. 21st
  • History of the villages on Danzig Heights . 1938.
  • The formation and development of farm and village names in Gdansk Land . Bauernkalender Danzig-West Prussia, Volume 2, 1941, pp. 100-103.

In: Gdansk family history contributions

Published by the Society for Family Research, Coat of Arms and Seal Studies

  • Citizens of Danzig on the Danzig Heights. 1, 1929, pp. 41-45.
  • The Lobeck and Lobeckshof family. 2, 1934, pp. 39-42.
  • Settlers from the Ore Mountains in Danzig Land. 3, 1938, pp. 3-6.
  • A black baptism. 5, 1940, p. 20.
  • Name changes in the old days. 5, 1940, pp. 47-48.
  • Name changes in the old days. 5, 1941, p. 12.
  • The owners of Heligoland. 7, 1943, pp. 5-8.

In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association

  • Gdansk bourgeois families in rural ownership. 71, 1934, pp. 88-113.

In: Communications of the West Prussian History Association (until 1937), Weichselland (from 1938)

  • The painting and engraving collection of the Muhl family in Gdansk. 11, 1912, pp. 65-69.
  • St. Elisabeth and Holy Spirit in Danzig. 12, 1913, pp. 86-92.
  • Memories of a hundred years ago. 13, 1914, pp. 6-15.
  • The Senator Abraham Ludwig Muhl. 14, 1915, pp. 8-16.
  • The studbook of Senator Abraham Ludwig Muhl (1782–1789). 14, 1915, pp. 73-76.
  • Danzig councilor Friedrich Muhl 1732–1797. 17, 1918, pp. 61-67.
  • The Hagedorn Foundation at the Smallpox House and Hospital in Gdansk. 19, 1920, pp. 24-28.
  • Lagschau. 21, 1922, pp. 4-12.
  • The Jesuit ski jump. 22, 1923, pp. 10-16.
  • History of the Herrengrebin manor. 22, 1923, pp. 1-39.
  • From Sperlingsdorf and its chapel. 23, 1924, pp. 46-51.
  • The bird singers guild in Gdansk. 23, 1924, pp. 62-70.
  • The hunt on the Gdańsk Spit. 24, 1925, pp. 72-78.
  • The English court. 25, 1926, pp. 45-58.
  • The duck catcher guild in Gdansk. 26, 1927, pp. 17-29, 49-58.
  • Land and forest lakes on the Danziger Höhe. 30, 1931, pp. 21-38.
  • Citizens of Danzig on the Danzig Heights. 30, 1931, pp. 49-68.
  • Fishing and sturgeon fishing in the Gdańsk area. 30, 1931, pp. 69-84.
  • Manners on the Danzig Heights in earlier centuries. 31, 1932, pp. 23-32.
  • Magic and witch superstition in Danzig Land. 32, 1933, pp. 35-43.
  • Church and school in the hospital village of Rambeltsch. 32, 1933, pp. 74-85.
  • A Gdańsk aqueduct. 33, 1934, pp. 12-15.
  • The Wonneberg Church, founded by the city of Gdansk. 33, 1934, pp. 86-93.
  • St. Elisabeth in Danzig. 34, 1935, pp. 5-15.
  • Lobeckshof and the Lobeck family. 34, 1935, pp. 39-43.
  • The Hungarian von Bersewitz family in East Prussia. 34, 1935, pp. 70-72.
  • Wolves around Danzig. 34, 1935, pp. 84-88.
  • Churches on the Danziger Höhe. 1. Löblau. 35, 1936, pp. 25-38.
  • Churches on the Danziger Höhe. 2: Gischkau . 35, 1936, pp. 67-78.
  • St. Jacob's Church and the Church of Reconciliation in Oliva. 35, 1936, pp. 123-129.
  • A Danzig studbook. 36, 1937, pp. 31-35.
  • Hut locations in Danzig Land. 37, 1938, pp. 15-18.
  • The churches in Mariensee. 37, 1938, pp. 59-65.
  • Church and school in Praust. 38, 1939, pp. 1-9.
  • The head of Danzig . 39, 1940, pp. 59-63.
  • Church history from the Danzig Spit. 39, 1940, pp. 36-45.
  • The church and school in Ohra. 41, 1942, pp. 40-45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b forum.danzig.de
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/788
  3. ↑ Dzieje Sztutowa do roku 1920. Muzeum Stutthof - Gdynia, Sztutowo 2016, ISBN 978-83-944033-4-8 .
  4. ^ Gdańsk family history articles (GenWiki)
personal data
SURNAME Muhl, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhl, John Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German public prosecutor and chief of the criminal police in Danzig, regional historian of the Danzig area
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagschau , Danziger Höhe district
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1943
Place of death Danzig