Karl-Otto Schlau

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Karl-Otto Schlau (born March 5, 1920 in Goldingen ( Latvian Kuldīga ), Latvia ; † November 10, 2001 in Schorndorf ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official of German-Baltic origin and author of works on Baltic history.

Live and act

Karl-Otto Schlau came from a German-Baltic academic family. He was a son of the philologist and educator Wilhelm Schlau (1886–1978) and his wife Frieda Dorothea, b. Neander (1888-1984); his grandfather was provost Karl Schlau, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks in Riga in 1919 . Wilfried Schlau was his brother. In 1938 he made his Abitur at the German high school in Mitau ( Latvian Jelgava ) and began studying history and German at the University of Latviaand at the Herder Institute in Riga. From 1940 to 1945 he did military service and fled to the West at the end of the war. From 1946 he studied law at the University of Bonn . After initial examination, he made his clerkship in the Higher Regional Court of Cologne and went for a semester 1949/50 at the Georgetown University in Washington DC From 1954 was Karl-Otto cleverness in the service of the country North Rhine-Westphalia and worked as a consultant and team leader in the Ministry of Culture.

In 1969 he switched to the service of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In the Stuttgart Ministry of Culture , he headed the university department as ministerial director . In the Ministry of Science, founded in 1978, he took over the management of the policy department.

Since 1989 he was in his second marriage to Ursula, geb. Ott († 2000) married. Both were descendants of Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann .

He was chairman of the German-Baltic Genealogical Society in Darmstadt.

estate

Parts of Karl-Otto Schlau's estate are kept in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives , the Munich Institute for Contemporary History . and the German-Baltic Genealogical Society .

Fonts

  • Mitau in the 19th century. Life and work of the mayor Franz von Zuccalmaglio (1800–1873). Wedemark-Elze: Hirschheydt 1995 (Contributions to Baltic history 15)
  • As governess on property in Courland (1846–1850). Wedemark-Elze: Hirschheydt 1996 (Contributions to Baltic history 16)
  • Bolshevik time in Mitau January 9th - March 18th 1919. Wedemark-Elze: v. Hirschheydt 1999 (Contributions to Baltic History 18)
  • (posthumous) Council line of the city of Mitau in Courland 1573–1918. Hamburg: Pantzer 2002 (Baltic genealogical tables, special issue 27)

literature

  • Werner Paulus: Karl-Otto Schlau † , in: circular of the family community GEBHARDT - PAULUS - HOFFMANN. No. 43, June 2002 ( digitized version ; PDF; 1.2 MB), p. 15f
  • Wilfried Schlau, Dirk-Gerd Erpenbeck: A Baltic German and his ancestors: From the estate of retired ministerial director Karl-Otto Schlau. German 2004

Individual evidence

  1. 330.03.00 Ministry of Culture, hand files Schlau
  2. Inventory ED 164: Finding aid (PDF; 44 kB)
  3. Newsletter June 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 245 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbgg.de