Kurt Markus

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Kurt Markus (born May 9, 1897 in Mödnitz , † after 1966) was a German teacher, local history researcher, archive and monument curator and conservationist in the Torgau district .

Live and act

Kurt Markus worked as a school principal in Torgau in the Prussian province of Saxony . From 1933 Markus was a member of the SA and the NSDAP's ring of sacrifices .

Since 1920 he has been active on a voluntary basis with research on local history, customs and traditions, about which he has published several times. In 1929 he was already designated as the home nurse of the Prussian district of Torgau. In 1937 he took over the office of state archivist for the Torgau district, Torgau-Süd care district. In this area he was responsible for looking after the state and private archives. It is thanks to him that several manor archives were preserved before the destruction, including the Martinskirchen manor archive , which is now managed in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive .

He was also a nature conservation officer in the Torgau district. He held this post in the GDR for many years after the Second World War.

In 1951, together with Karl Herrmann Schmidt, the sculptor Adolf Hacker and Fritz Walther, he was involved in the reopening of the museum in Torgau, from which today's Torgau City and Cultural History Museum emerged.

estate

His annual reports as archivist are stored in the archive maintenance file in the Torgau district in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive. There you will also find his handwritten personal questionnaire with biographical information and passport photo.

Works (selection)

  • My beautiful home. The Torgau district. Published by the District Committee for Homeland Care , Art Print and Publishing Office, Kiel 1932.
  • Preface in: Natural history hiking trail through our city park , Torgau 1954
  • Hartenfels Castle Torgau, a cultural and historical monument of the GDR , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , Vol. 6 (1960) pp. 1-9

source

literature

  • Commitment not only dedicated to the environment , in: Torgauer Zeitung of March 9, 2009 (with ill.)
  • Lexicon of the nature conservation officers , Volume 2, Saxony-Anhalt, Friedland 2006, p. 332

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxony and Anhalt, Volume 15, 1939, p. 436
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 9, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-torgau.de
  3. ↑ State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg Department, C 96 II, No. 49.
  4. ↑ Incorrectly referred to as Kurt Marcus.
personal data
SURNAME Markus, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers, local historians, archivists and preservationists as well as nature conservationists
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödnitz
DATE OF DEATH after 1966