Otto Korn

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Otto Korn, 1946, drawing by Wolfgang Pagenstecher

Otto Johannes Gotthilf Erich Korn (born May 31, 1898 in Wanzleben , † April 3, 1955 in Münster ) was a German archivist and heraldist .

Life

Born in Wanzleben as the son of geologist Johannes Korn and later state geologist and professor at the Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy in Berlin. From 1904 to 1916 he attended the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He was then drafted and took part in the First World War (wounding and permanent war damage). At the beginning of the twenties, Korn began studying history, German, art history, Latin and historical auxiliary sciences at the Berlin University and graduated in 1927 as Dr. phil. from. From January 1929 volunteer at the Berlin State Archives and from 1930 at the Marburg State Archives. On May 1, 1933, Korn joined the NSDAP . In Marburg he was appointed State Archives Councilor on March 27, 1934, and in April 1936 he began his service at the Magdeburg State Archives . Because he was called up for military service, he was delegated to the Düsseldorf State Archives in March 1943 . In September 1946 he was still acting as acting director. From October 1948 he was an unskilled worker in the civil status archive II in Lütgendortmund and from 1949 to the beginning of 1952 a skilled worker in the Düsseldorf city archive. After his denazification, in February 1952 he was again accepted into the civil service as State Archives Councilor at the State Archives in Münster . Otto Korn held this position until his death in early April 1955.

On May 14, 1930 he married Elisabeth Hibben from Berlin. The marriage resulted in a total of six children, including Hans-Enno Korn .

Heraldic work

In addition to numerous historical and local history publications, including several on coats of arms and seals of cities and municipalities: "Rheinisches Siegel- und Urkundenbuch" Brühl 1952; Coat of arms and seals of the localities in the Wanzleben district, 1937; "Seal and coat of arms of the city of Düsseldorf" 1955; "Seal and coat of arms of the Rheiner judges and counters" 1952; as well as through a registry of the court of the Palatinate, the "Beyssel Wappenbuch" (Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 1947), Otto Korn was the creator of many East Frisian municipal coats of arms, as well as district coats of arms and a number of family coats of arms.

Korn was interested in local heraldry and was gifted in drawing, so it is not surprising that he used the time during his service at the Magdeburg State Archives to work in the heraldic field. So he created a number of county coats of arms and many municipalities who wanted to represent themselves to the outside world with a coat of arms turned to him. Otto Korn created coats of arms "in stock" for certain regions, i. H. offered them - not always successfully - to the congregations for sale. Many of these preliminary drawings are now in the holdings of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives in Magdeburg .

literature

  • Obituary for Otto Korn . In: Der Archivar 8. 1955, col. 313.
  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 330.

Web links

Commons : Otto Korn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical lexicon of the heraldists published by HEROLD, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences, edited by Jürgen Arndt with the help of Horst Hilgenberg and Marga Wehner in PUBLISHING BAUER & RASPE NEUSTADT AN DER AISCH 1992.