Otto Posse

Portrait of Otto Posse, painted by Robert Sterl , 1917

Otto Adalbert Posse (born July 29, 1847 in Weißensee ; † November 13, 1921 in Dresden ) was a German historian and archivist .

After working at the Royal State Archives in Marburg and the Grand Ducal State Archives in Weimar, the pupil of Leopold von Ranke and Georg Waitz moved to the Main State Archives in Dresden in 1875 , where he devoted himself in particular to the publication of the Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae . In Marburg Posse became a member of the Masonic Lodge Marc Aurel zum Flaming Stern in 1872 . He retired in 1919.

Today's Medievalists know Posse for the processing of the German ruler's seals, which is still unsurpassed . His son Hans Posse was an art historian and Hitler's special commissioner for the construction of the “ Führermuseum ” in Linz.

Works

• The Margraves of Meissen and the House of Wettin up to Konrad the Great. Leipzig 1881 ( digitized version )
• The seals of the Wettins until 1324 and the Landgraves of Thuringia until 1247. 1888
• The seals of the Wettins and the Landgraves of Thuringia, the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg and Electors of Saxony from the Ascan family: In addition to a treatise on heraldry and sphragistics of the Wettins. 1893
• The seals of the Wettins from 1324–1486 and the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg and Electors of Saxony from the Ascan family: Along with a treatise on heraldry and sphragistics of the Wettins. II. Part. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig 1893 ( digitized version )
• Manuscript conservation. After the negotiations of the St. Gallen International Conference on the Preservation and Improvement of Old Manuscripts of 1898 and the Dresden Conference of German Archivists in 1899. Dresden 1899
• The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region up to 1500. 1903
• The seals of the German emperors and kings . 4 volumes and volume 5 as a text volume, Dresden 1909–1913 (reprinted Leipzig 1981)
• The ancestors of the Princely and Countess House of Schönburg. Dresden 1914
• The seals of the Archbishops and Electors of Mainz: Arch Chancellor of the German Empire until 1803. 1914

Web links

Commons : Otto Posse  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Otto Posse  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Otto Posse  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Otto Posse in the Saxon Bibliography
• Tom Graber: Posse, Otto Adalbert . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .