Otto Dahm

Leopold Otto Dahm (born May 19, 1844 in Seubersdorf , Marienwerder district , West Prussia ; † April 14, 1908 in Deutsch-Wilmersdorf near Berlin ) was a Prussian officer and Limes researcher .

Life

Dahm served in the Prussian army . He became major in the artillery and sub-director of the powder factory in Hanau-Wolfgang . He retired from the service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In addition, like numerous other officers, he was interested in Roman military history and the exploration of the Roman Limes in Germany. In the 1880s, as sub-director of the royal Prussian powder factory in Hanau, he dealt with the forts in the Hanau area . From 1894 Dahm worked as a route commissioner for the Reich Limes Commission for the area from Höhr to Langenschwalbach .

Fonts

• with Georg Wolff : The Roman border wall near Hanau with the forts at Rückingen and Marköbel (= communications from the Hanau district association for Hessian history and regional studies. 9). Orphanage, Hanau 1885 ( full text ).
• The Herrmann Battle. Lecture given in February 1886 at the Hanau History Society. Alberti, Hanau 1888.
• Roman mining on the lower Lahn. In: Bonner Jahrbücher . 101, 1897, pp. 117-127.
• The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire
  • Department B, Volume 1, Fort 2a: The Niederberg Fort near Ehrenbreitstein. Berlin, Leipzig 1900.
  • Department B, Volume 1, Fort 3: The Arzbach Fort . Berlin, Leipzig 1900.
• The Germanicus campaigns in Germany. (= West German magazine for history and art. Supplement 11) Linz, Trier 1902.
• The Roman fortress Aliso near Haltern an der Lippe. In: Reclam's universe. Vol. 18, H. 28, 1902.
• Criticism of an excavation on the Hahnenkamp near Rehme. In: Revensberger Blätter. Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1904.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death book of the registry office Deutsch Wilmersdorf No. 258/1908.