Oskar Pusch (genealogist)

Oskar Pusch (born April 8, 1902 in Breslau , Silesia , † February 15, 1992 in Bad Bodendorf , Ahrweiler district , Rhineland-Palatinate ) was a German tax officer, well-known genealogist and author .

Life

Tax inspector

The qualified economist worked from 1926 to at least 1932 as a tax officer (councilor ) of the Reich Finance Administration, initially in his hometown of Breslau, but before 1938 in Berlin . As an active soldier he then took part in the World War, including in January 1942 off Leningrad , while his family was evacuated in the Sudetenland .

After the war he came to Westphalia , lived in Oberhausen-Osterfeld and headed the Oberhausen-Nord tax office from 1956–1967 . He spent his old age after the death of his wife Charlotte nee. Renner († 1978) in Bad Bodendorf an der Ahr . The couple had five children.

genealogist

As a native of Silesia, Pusch has devoted himself to Silesian family and homeland research since his youth and is recognized as a specialist in this field. In 1952 he was one of the founding members of the working group of East German family researchers , in which former Silesian family researchers around Curt Liebich had come together. From 1952 to 1958 he was a treasurer on the board. He has published countless essays and books since 1957 and was in demand as a lecturer. At the beginning of the 1960s, he took over the honorary management of the “Study Center for Silesian and Saxon Family Research” in the “East German Research Center in North Rhine-Westphalia”.

His personal preference within his research was for noble families from Silesia and Saxony as well as the Wroclaw council families. That is why his most important and most cited publication is the five-volume work "The Breslau City Councils and Towns in the Period from 1241 to 1741". However, the abundance of biographical data published therein also contains errors.

Pusch was initially 2nd chairman of the "Society for East Central European Regional Studies and Culture e. V. ", responsible for the" Research Center East Central Europe "at the University of Dortmund , from November 1978 its 1st chairman.

When he died, Pusch left genealogical archive material of 80,000 sheets in 120 folders, tens of thousands of individual index cards, thousands of letters from two centuries, portraits and pictures.

Awards

In 1982 Pusch was made an honorary member of the Working Group of East German Family Researchers.

Publications (selection)

From his numerous publications in genealogical and local history journals or as books - according to Pusch himself, these were exactly "7,037 pages, 738 images, 47 coats of arms, 29 map sketches, 82 ancestral tables, 122 family tables, 15 descendant tables" - deserve the following Publications special mention:

• The Silesian nobility of Poser , in particular Poser and Groß Naedlitz , Verlag Degener & Co. , Neustadt ad Aisch 1957, as well as: The gender of Poser and Gross-Naedlitz , East German research center in North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund 1968, and other things Poser's family
• The Pistorius miners from Langenau / Saxony , self-published, Oberhausen 1960
• The Duncker family from Sternberg / Mecklenburg with special consideration of the Prussian family v. Dunker and the Finnish Duncker family , self-published, Oberhausen 1961
• History of the Silesian Migula family , self-published, Oberhausen 1961
• The pastor and newspaper family Gross from the Margraviate of Ansbach-Bayreuth , self-published, Oberhausen 1964
• The Silesian cloth maker family Renner and their lineage , East German Research Center in North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund 1967
• The origins of the Silesian poet Carl von Holtei . In: Silesia. Quarterly magazine for art, science and folklore. Volume 12, 1967, pp. 216-221.
• Memories of the Kgl. prussia. Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Dunker . On the 100th anniversary of death on November 18 , 1968, self-published, Oberhausen 1968
• Von Below , A German Gender from the Baltic Sea Region , Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund, Series No. 27, Dortmund 1974
• Arnold Ulitz - His work as a poet and his personality , Ed .: Association of Displaced People , Bonn 1981
• My historical-genealogical private archive (library of family history sources, vol. 27), Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt ad Aisch 1982, ISBN 3-7686-4095-7
• The Breslauer Rats- und Stadt sexes in the period from 1241 to 1741 (publication by the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund, series B), 5 volumes, Dortmund 1986–1991: Volume 1 (A – F) 1986, ISBN 3-923293-16 -X ; Volume 2 (G-K) 1987, ISBN 3-923293-20-8 ; Volume 3 (L-R) 1988, ISBN 3-923293-25-9 ; Volume 4 (S-U) 1990, ISBN 3-923293-26-7 ; Volume 5 (V-Z) 1991, ISBN 3-923293-31-3 Literature

• Literature by and about Oskar Pusch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Walter Stanke: O. Pusch, a passionate genealogist , in: Weekly magazine “Ost-West-Kurier” from April 26, 1969

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} AGoFF archive Herne, membership file No. 0090
2. ↑ AGOFF website The history of the Executive Committee of AGoFF ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2010 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. 
3. ↑ AGoFF website: The honorary members of AGoFF ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 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. 
4. ^ Source: My historical-genealogical private archive , 1982