Otto Fahlbusch

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Otto Fahlbusch (born June 14, 1888 in Northeim ; † March 5, 1971 ) was a German teacher, historian and local historian.

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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Fahlbusch was born on June 14, 1888 as the son of the brewery director Otto Fahlbusch in Northeim. After he had passed the Abitur at the Gymnasium Corvinianum in Northeim in 1907 , he studied in Munich, Göttingen and Berlin and in February 1913 passed the teaching examination for German, history and religion in Göttingen. He completed his seminar and probation year from 1913 to 1915 at the secondary school in Einbeck . On February 21, 1912 he was awarded a doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on the financial administration of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages. phil. PhD. After the First World War, in which he took part as a non-commissioned officer, he initially worked as a study assistant at the secondary school in Wilhelmsburg , before he was permanently accepted into school service at the secondary school in Einbeck in 1920. In August 1936 he moved to Göttingen as a senior teacher. From 1936 to 1954 he was director of the Göttingen Municipal Museum and at the same time the officer for prehistory, archive maintenance and local history issues in the Göttingen district . He published numerous writings on the history of the Göttingen district.

Otto Fahlbusch had been married since 1924 and had at least two sons (born in 1926 and 1933).

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The financial administration of the city of Braunschweig since the great uprising in 1374 until 1425. An urban financial reform in the Middle Ages. (Diss.) Göttingen 1913. Published in an expanded version in the series Investigations on German State and Legal History , Issue 116, Breslau 1913 (reprint: Aalen 1970).

literature

  • Otto Fahlbusch 1888–1971 (obituary) . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Vol. 43, pp. 335–336. A. Lax, Hildesheim, 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Fahlbusch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1971