Otto Feger

Otto Feger (born November 10, 1905 in Mulhouse in Alsace, † April 26, 1968 in Constance ) was a German archivist and historian .

Otto Feger was born the son of a locomotive driver and studied law at the universities of Freiburg i. Ue. and Berlin. In Berlin in 1927 he joined the circle around Carl Sonnenschein . In 1928 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg im Üechtland . From 1929 to 1933 he worked as a legal assistant, branch manager and department manager at the employment offices in Stuttgart, Heppenheim, Singen and Bad Mergentheim.

In 1932 he was a candidate of the Center Party for the elections to the Hessian state parliament. In 1933 he was released from the administration. From 1934 to 1935 he worked as an independent economic and tax expert in Rheinfelden and from 1934 he ran two cinemas in Rheinfelden and Wehr with his wife .

From 1935 he studied history at the University of Freiburg i. Br. Feger was significantly influenced in his scientific career by Theodor Mayer and Franz Beyerle . In 1941 he was at Clemens Bauer Dr. phil. PhD. From 1939 to 1945 he did military service in the Wehrmacht, from 1942 he worked in Rome as an interpreter for the Wehrmacht. From 1945 until his retirement in 1965 he was in charge of the Konstanz City Archives. His successor in the Konstanz city archive was Helmut Maurer . He was a member of the CDU . In 1965, Feger received the Lake Constance Literature Prize from the city of Überlingen.

Fonts (selection)

While his three-volume history of the Lake Constance area can be regarded as his most important academic work, his program publication Schwäbisch-Alemannische Demokratie (1946), which advocated an Alemannic state in the German southwest, reached a wider audience.

Swabian-Alemannic democracy. Call and program. Weller, Konstanz 1946 (2nd edition 1947).

literature

Otto Feger. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Konstanz working group for medieval history on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Volume 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 125–128 ( online )

Helmut Maurer : Otto Feger . In: Badische Biographien NF Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 110–112 ( digitized version )
Jürgen Klöckler : Occident - Alpine - Alemannia. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 171 ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Otto Feger in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography in Alemannic

Remarks

^ Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 172.
^ Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 173.
^ Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 213.

personal data
SURNAME	Feger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mulhouse in Alsace
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1968
Place of death	Constancy

[1] Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 172.

[2] Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 173.

[3] Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947. Munich 1998, p. 213.