Odo Deodatus I. Tauern

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Odo Deodatus I. Tauern (born November 14, 1885 in New York , NY , USA ; † July 11, 1926 near Freiburg im Breisgau ) founded the Tauern branch of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family as the first illegitimate descendant of Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck . He is almost the only known example of an illegitimate descendant of Henckel von Donnersmarcks, but Prince Guido appointed him as heir. The Tauern family is therefore also part of the Henckel von Donnersmarck line.

Odo D. Tauern was an ethnologist and dealt with the peoples of the Far East , Indonesia and the local islands of Java , Bali and Seram (formerly Ceram ). A research trip also took him to these areas, which at the time was associated with great effort and enormous costs. He made the exhibits he found there available to the ethnological museum in Freiburg im Breisgau . Other fields of activity were in the field of film , which was also quite unusual for a private person at the time. He had an accident in 1926 on a climbing tour in Breisgau .

Curriculum vitae of Odo Deodatus Tauern 1885–1926

In 1901 written by Odo D. Tauern:

I was born in New York on November 14th, 1885. Countess Luise von Voss b. Henckel von Donnersmarck took me to Berlin as a foster son . When I was 2 years old, I got a French teacher, from whom I learned French. This language remained my colloquial language until I started learning German again at the age of 5 and learned to read and write.
During our walks together in the zoo, my first teacher awakened a preference for the natural sciences by introducing me to animals and plants. When I was 7 years old, I received an English teacher who couldn't speak a word of German. And so after six months I learned to speak perfect English. At the same time I also had my first Latin lesson.
I soon attended Michaelis Gymnasium. In my subsequent school career, all my interests were devoted to mathematics and science. My love for nature and natural history was also greatly encouraged by the fact that we spent 2 to 3 months in Bad Gastein , in the Alps, year after year . When physics became a subject, I started experimenting and designing at home.
I finally decided to study physics while my foster mother had decided on my consular career. At home, in addition to studying physics, I devoted myself to reading German classics.
My foster mother Luise von Voss fell seriously ill and after three months of severe suffering, she died at the age of 82. It was the worst pain that hit me in my life. It was limitless because now I was really orphaned. I got a guardian!

Odo D. Tauern studied at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, where he finally obtained a doctorate in mathematics and science in 1909. Count Guido Henckel Fürst von Donnersmarck supported his son generously financially and insisted on congratulating him on his doctoral examination. The prince offered him a job in one of his companies, but Tauern preferred the extreme and freedom. Since childhood he loved the sport more than anything. In summer it was climbing, in winter skiing.

His participation in the Moluccas expedition from 1910 to 1911 was formative for his life . He wrote a book about this expedition. We learn how Tauern joined the expedition from the participating zoologist Erwin Stresemann: “At Deninger [expedition leader] a private assistant at the local [Freiburg im Breisgau] physical institute, Dr. Odo Deodatus Tauern, and also applied to participate in the expedition. He is very interested in ethnology and is very happy to take on the ethnological tasks. On top of that, he was knowledgeable about technical things and would therefore probably make himself useful in many ways. He could also raise money because he was closely related to the Upper Silesian finance magnate Prince Guido von Henkel [sic!] Donnersmarck. ” (Quoted from Haffer 1997, p. 862).

From a letter from the expedition leader Deninger to his parents on September 10, 1911, it becomes clear that Tauern's participation was not without problems: “He [Tauern] is in Misol, we [Deninger, Stresemann] no longer meet and see him only now in full measure how bad an obstacle it has been for the expedition and its work. ” (quoted from Haffer 1997, p. 897).

When Odo D. Tauern was in Berlin, he visited the Berthold family. He has been going in and out of the family since high school. In passing, it was decided that he should marry the eldest daughter of the family, but he liked the youngest much better. And so he married Marie Sophie Berthold on June 15, 1914.

Odo D. Tauern wrote about his honeymoon: “When I visited the wonderful area of ​​the Lyngenfjord with my friend in 1906, I had no idea that 8 years later I would visit these areas again with the same tent on my honeymoon. One would think that the Lyngenfjord is not a suitable destination for a honeymoon, but if you want to spend some solitude with your young wife and are also a mountaineer and nature lover, you will find what you are looking for in the lonely mountains of the Lyngenfjord . It so happened that my wife and I decided to spend our honeymoon up there. It was the summer of 1914. "

The young Tauern family lived in Freiburg im Breisgau with their children Luise, Heimo, Dankmar and Reiner. The Feldberg in the Black Forest was their second residence, because they owned a "hut".

Tauern wrote: “It is now twenty years that I roam the mountains of the southern Black Forest in summer and winter. I moved up Sunday after Sunday, in sun and rain, fog and blizzard. I never got bored of the Feldberg, only ever better and more familiar. When winter finally comes with a howling blizzard, heissa, there's a life up there. It can blow as much as it wants, and it really does more than enough, we skiers happily fight our way against the biting storm and enjoy the first descent! "

On December 19, 1916, his father, Prince Henckel von Donnersmarck, died in Berlin. Tauern found out about this through a telegram that his half-brother Guidotto sent him to the camp. Tauern said goodbye to his father at the funeral in Neudeck in Upper Silesia.

Tauern was a sports enthusiast. He was the first chairman of the Academic Ski Club Freiburg from 1913 to 1920 and again from 1924 until his death in 1926. On May 8, 1920, equally enthusiastic about film and the mountains, together with Arnold Fanck , Bernhard Villinger and Rolf Bauer, he founded Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH in Freiburg im Breisgau. This company shot the first documentary films in the high alpine mountains. Tauern wrote the script for the film The Miracle of the Snowshoe , which at the time was the first film in which slow motion was used.

Odo D. Tauern wrote several articles about sport, gave lectures and tried to bring sport closer to young people in schools and in their free time.

On July 11, 1926, Tauern died doing one of his favorite pastimes. He just wanted to do a little climbing demo on the Paulkefelsen (in the Höllental in the Black Forest ), and he fell so unhappy that he died shortly afterwards in the hospital in Freiburg. He left his young wife with four school-age children.

Fragments from the diaries of the “II. Freiburg Moluccas Expedition ”, written by the ornithologist Erwin Stresemann , are in Haffer 1997 (pp. 858–906).

Works

  • About the appearance of the Kerr phenomenon in glasses . Dissertation, University of Freiburg i. Br., 1909.
  • Ceram . In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 45, 1913, pp. 162-178.
  • Javanese card games . In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 46, 1914, pp. 45-48.
  • The arts and crafts on the island of Bali near Java . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . Leipzig, No. 3702, June 11, 1914, pp. 1277-1278.
  • Attempt a Sakai grammar and vocabulary. Based on the manuscript produced on site at the end of 1910. In: Anthropos . Volume 9, 1914, pp. 529-538.
  • The Moluccan island of Misol . In: Petermann's communications . Volume 61, 1915, pp. 311-314.
  • Patasiwa and Patalima. From the Moluccan island of Seran and its inhabitants. A contribution to ethnology . Leipzig 1918.
  • Contribution to knowledge of the languages ​​and dialects of Seran . In: Anthropos . Volume 23, 1928, pp. 1000-1020; Volume 24, 1929, pp. 953-981; Volume 25, 1930, pp. 567-578; Volume 26, 1931, pp. 109-139.
  • Film 4628 meters high on skis. Ascent of Monte Rosa, 1913. In: Facts and fragments on Freiburg's film production history 1901–1918 by Wolfgang Dittrich.
  • Film The Miracle of the Snowshoe - Part 1, 1920 from the Murnau Foundation's film inventory

literature

  • A. Kuzio-Podrucki: Henckel von Donnersmarckowie. Kariera i fortuna rodu . Bytom 2003, ISBN 83-86293-41-1 (Polish)
  • J. Haffer: "We must lead the way on new paths". The work and correspondence of HARTERT, STRESEMANN, ERNST MAYR - international ornithologists. Ornithologist letters of the 20th century. (Ecology of Birds 19) . Ludwigsburg 1997 ISSN  0173-0711
  • Dr. OD Tauern † . In: Academic Ski Club Freiburg i. Br. - Annual report 1926/1927 . Freiburg im Breisgau 1927, p. 3

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personal data
SURNAME Tauern, Odo Deodatus I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1926
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau