Otto Beuttenmüller

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Otto Beuttenmüller (born April 1, 1901 in Bretten ; † July 1, 1999 there ) was a German economist as well as a family and local researcher .

Live and act

Otto Beuttenmüller was born the son of the manufacturer Ernst Beuttenmüller (1864-1940) and his wife Auguste (1874-1918). The family came from the Swabian town of Beihingen and had opened a metalworking company in Bretten. His father was involved in homeland care and took care of the Georg Wörner Museum, now part of the Bretten City Museum .

Son Otto attended elementary and secondary school in Bretten and secondary school in Bruchsal and studied economics and social sciences from 1919 to 1925 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Technical University of Munich . In 1927 he was named Dr. rer. pole. PhD . After completing his studies, he returned to Bretten.

For decades he and his brother Hermann Beuttenmüller ran the family company in Bretten.

Act

His main field of work was genealogy . In 1924 he joined the Association for Württemberg Folklore. He published numerous publications on the lineage of numerous families, including Wörner, Scheifele, Paravicini, Ammann, Egetmeyer, Fresenius, Autenrieth and Zipperer. He had also researched the history of numerous family foundations. For more than 20 years he was treasurer of the umbrella organization of the German working group of genealogical associations based in Stuttgart . On the occasion of Beuttenmüller's 80th birthday, the umbrella association published the ten-generation ancestral list of the jubilee in the "Hessian ancestral lists".

In addition, he took care of the library of the Melanchthon House on a voluntary basis for over half a century . With his sense of systematics, he brought order to the large Melanchthon collections in Bretten and Nuremberg . At the end of these activities, he published the bibliography of the writings of Philipp Melanchthon , which met with a great response from experts. In 1960 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University for his “Provisional Directory of Melanchthon Prints of the 16th Century”.

Beuttenmüller was also involved in the preservation of monuments and local history in the Kraichgau . He himself took part in the recovery of numerous archaeological finds. Until the dissolution of the Bretten district office , he was a volunteer district monument conservator. He has also written numerous books about Bretten himself, including one about the intellectual creator of the Melanchthon House, Nikolaus Müller, and about the Protestant church in Bretten. In addition, he created an alphabetical register of the city's citizens from 1688 to 1837. Numerous articles appeared in the former Pfeifferturm local history supplement or in Bretten yearbooks.

For the regional association Badische Heimat he created a complete table of contents for the writings "Badische Heimat", "Mein Heimatland", " Ekkhart- Jahresbuch" and "Vom Bodensee zum Main" from the years 1914 to 1970, which appeared in 1971.

Fonts (selection)

  • Swabian gender book. Volume 8, 1968.
  • The bailiffs in the Oberamt Bretten. In: Bretten Yearbook. Volume 5, 1972/1973.
  • Baden gender book. Volume 4. 1972.
  • Baden gender book. Volume 5. 1984.

Honors

  • Golden commemorative coin with the portrait of Melanchthon and certificate of honor (1960)
  • Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of Heidelberg University (1960)
  • Citizen's Medal (1967) and honorary citizenship (1986) of the city of Bretten
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (December 22, 1972)
  • Nebenius Medal of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Honorary member of the regional association Badische Heimat
  • Honorary member of the Association for Wuerttemberg Folklore (1971)
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (March 30, 1998)

estate

On his 95th birthday, he donated his library , which comprised around 5,000 volumes, to the city of Bretten, which she named Dr. Otto-Beuttenmüller-Bibliothek leads. It is open to the public.

literature

  • Ludwig Vögely : D. Dr. Otto Beuttenmüller - our honorary member, scientist and local researcher 80 years. In: Ekkhart . Yearbook for the Upper Rhine. 1982, p. 191 f.
  • Willy Bickel : Dr. Dr. Otto Beuttenmüller. The nestor of family and homeland research in the Kraichgau. In Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 10, 1987, pp. 20-22.
  • Peter Bahn: On the death of D. Dr. Otto Beuttenmüller (1901–1999) , in: Genealogie , Heft 9–10 / 1999, pp 691–694.
  • Michael Ertz: In memoriam Dr. Otto Beuttenmüller, Bretten , in: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 16, 1999, p. 488/89.
  • Peter Bahn, Alexander Kipphan: Bretten heads, 21 life pictures and personalities . Lindemann Library, Bretten 2010, ISBN 978-3-88190-609-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Office of the Federal President
  2. ↑ Dr. Otto-Beuttenmüller-Bibliothek ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 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. on bretten.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bretten.de
personal data
SURNAME Beuttenmüller, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, genealogist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Boards
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1999
Place of death Boards