Otto-Kurt Laag

Otto-Kurt Laag (born March 14, 1897 in Minden ; † November 27, 1971 in Minden) was a German teacher and local researcher.

Life

As the son of the middle school teacher Hermann Laag, Otto-Kurt Laag attended the preparatory work and the teachers' seminar in Petershagen after school . From 1916 until the end of the war he was a soldier with participation in an officer trainee course in 1917. Then he finished his professional training at the teacher training college in Soest with the first examination for teaching at elementary schools .

He began his service in Todtenhausen near Minden, passed his second teacher examination in 1923 and the secondary school teacher examination in 1928 and was transferred to Minden on January 1, 1931. During the Second World War he did military service until 1941, when he was released as a sergeant , and then worked again as a teacher.

When the director Max Matthey of the Mindener Museum died in 1951 , Otto-Kurt Laag took over the management of this museum alongside his job as a teacher and from 1954 full-time, actively taking care of the museum expansion. Although he was officially retired on March 31, 1962, he continued to run the museum until his successor took office on October 1, 1964.

Otto-Kurt Laag had been a member of the Minden History Society since 1923 , and he repeatedly participated in Friedrich Langewiesche's excavations . In 1932 he was appointed honorary curator for the cultural and historical soil antiquities, and later he was appointed to the antiquity commission in the provincial institute for Westphalian regional studies and folklore . On August 18, 1948, he became the nature conservation officer for the Minden district . On March 24, 1971, he was awarded honorary membership of the Minden History Association for his special services to the collection and research of Minden history.

literature

• Friedrich Carl Bath: In memoriam Otto-Kurt Laag. Announcements of the Minden History Society, year 43 (1971), pp. 7-12.