Max Eugen Domarus

Max Eugen Domarus (born June 12, 1866 in Schlochau , † March 4, 1946 in Wiesbaden ) was a German archivist and director of the Wiesbaden State Archives from April 1, 1921 to October 1, 1931. He was the father of the historian Max Domarus and the author of numerous scientific treatises on the national and church history of Nassau.

Life

After attending the Josefinum grammar school in Hildesheim , he studied at the Universities of Münster, Berlin and Halle, and then as a student of Theodor Lindner with a dissertation on “The relations of the German kings from Rudolf von Habsburg to Ludwig the Elder. B. on Denmark "for Dr. phil. PhD (December 17, 1891). During his studies he became a member of the KAV Suevia Berlin in 1889 .

As a scholarship holder of the Görres Society , with which he remained closely associated throughout his life, he spent formative years in Italy, especially in Rome (September 1893 to July 1897), before he was accepted into the Prussian archive service in August 1897. From his first place of work, the Hanover State Archives, he moved to the Wiesbaden State Archives on April 1, 1900, where he was promoted to State Archives Director. The work of these years was characterized by the difficult economic and political conditions in Germany during the post-war and inflationary period. During his conscientious and impartial professional work, he was particularly interested in the holdings from the Rheingau and the ecclesiastical and monastic institutions, which prompted him to publish numerous scientific publications on the history of Nassau. Not least, his treatises on the early air journey of the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard from Frankfurt to Weilburg in 1785, as well as on the refusal of the Nassau oath by Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, received special attention . In addition to the large number of articles in the “Annals and Communications of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research”, the “History of Dernbach” published in 1926 should also be mentioned, for which the community of Dernbach made him an honorary citizen in the same year.

literature

Ludwig Lenhart and Anton Ph. Brück (eds.): Archive for Middle Rhine Church History . 1st year. Jaegersche Buchdruckerei GmbH, 1949, ISSN 0066-6432 (on behalf of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History).

Individual evidence

↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 149.

personal data
SURNAME	Domarus, Max Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archivist and director of the Wiesbaden State Archives (1921–1931)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlochau
DATE OF DEATH	March 4, 1946
Place of death	Wiesbaden

[1] Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 149.