Kurt Schottmüller

Kurt Adolf Heinrich Schottmüller (born July 3, 1871 in Berlin , † August 11, 1919 in Danzig ) was a German historian and archivist .

Kurt Schottmüller was the son of the historian Konrad Schottmüller (1841–1893) and his wife Emma Wittich, his younger sister was the art historian Frida Schottmüller (1872–1936).

After graduating from high school in Berlin at Easter 1891, he studied history from 1891 to 1895 at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin . In June 1895 he passed the state examination for the higher archival service. In December 1896 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on the organization of the central administration in Kleve-Mark with Albert Naudé . In early 1897 he became a scientific assistant at the Provincial Museum and the State Library in Poznan . On April 2, 1898, he was taken on as a laborer in the Prussian archive service and worked at the State Archives in Posen, where in August 1900 he was appointed archive assistant. From April 1902 to October 1903 he worked at the Secret State Archives in Berlin before moving back to the State Archives in Posen. On April 1, 1906, he moved to the Danzig State Archives as archivist .

From 1904 he was married to Dorothea Stenzler (1881-1965), their daughter was the future artist Oda Schottmüller (1905-1943). However, his wife fell ill with a nervous disease in 1907, then lived in sanatoriums, and separated from him in 1913. Because of the maintenance payments for his wife, he and his daughter lived in Danzig in very modest circumstances. After the First World War he was emaciated and nervous and died of a heart attack in August 1919.

Publications (selection)

• The organization of the central administration in Kleve-Mark before the Brandenburg takeover in 1609 (= political and social science research Volume 14, Issue 4). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897 ( digitized ).
• From a Schwersenz family chronicle . In: Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Poznan 12, 1897, pp. 357–376.
• Two Brandenburg decrees for Greater Poland from the Swedish-Polish war . In: Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Poznan 14, 1899, pp. 111–166.
• Trade and commerce in the government district of Poznan until 1851 . Decker, Poznan 1901.
• The Prussian peace project of 1712 and King Stanislaus Leszczynski . In: Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Posen 19, 1904, pp. 177–194 ( digitized version ).
• The Polish Uprising in 1806/7. Documents and files from the time between Jena and Tilsit (= special publications of the Historical Society for the Province of Posen, Volume 4). Ms. Ebecke, Lissa i. Pr. 1907.
• Travel impressions from Danzig, Lübeck, Hamburg and Holland 1636. Based on the newly discovered part II of Charles Ogier's legation diary . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association 52, 1910, pp. 199–273.
• The establishment of the Royal Government in Gdansk 100 years ago . Festschrift for the centenary on July 1, 1916. Kafemann, Danzig 1916 ( digitized version ) (also in: Journal of the West Prussian History Association 57, 1917, pp. 1-66).

literature

• Adolf Warschauer : The man of Kurt Schottmüller . In: Danziger Zeitung October 9, 1919, No. 470 = Historical monthly sheets for the province of Posen 20, No. 5 January 1920, p. 80 ( digitized version ).
• Adolf Warschauer: Kurt Schottmüller † . In: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine 67, 1919, p. 220 ( digitized version ).
• Geertje Andresen: The dancer, sculptor and Nazi opponent Oda Schottmüller (1905–1943) . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-58-9 , p. 28ff.