Otto Lanz (Forester)

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Otto Lanz (born January 18, 1867 in Ravensburg , † April 25, 1929 in Stuttgart ) was a German forester and numismatist .

Life

Otto Lanz, who had already started a family with his wife Berta, began his career as a forester in 1898 as a district office assistant at the Herrenalb district office . In 1900 he became a royal Württemberg court hunting inspector. He was the last man to hold this office and the only civil close friend of the last King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II of Württemberg , and often went hunting alone with him .

After the king's abdication, the management of the forests was restructured. From 1919 to 1928 Lanz headed the forestry office in Stuttgart as a forestry councilor .

During his professional activity, Lanz kept diaries and notebooks, which are now in the main state archive in Stuttgart and provide information not only about his work as a forest clerk in the Württemberg service, but also about life at the court of Wilhelm II of Württemberg. The estate was handed over to the archive in 1981 by Otto Lanz's son, Wehrmacht General Hubert Lanz , who was convicted as a war criminal in the Nuremberg trials .

Otto Lanz was also a collector and expert in the field of numismatics. He published an article on Das Geld Oberschwabens from 1300–1500 , Die Münzkunde, a study of the coins of the city of Isny and the coins and medals of Ravensburg in the course of its coin history (1927) as well as the coin and money history of Isny (Württ. Vjhh . Ld.-Gesch., NF 35, pp. 99-203).

The Beautification Association Stuttgart , to which Lanz had belonged and of which he had been deputy chairman until his death, set a monument to Lanz in 1930. It was originally located on the Sandweg near Rotenwaldstraße and has been near Bärenkopf not far from Bärenschlössle since 1963 . The implementation became necessary when the Rotenwaldstraße was widened. The monument is made of travertine . In addition to this monument, the Lanz oak in Pfaffensee commemorates Lanz.

literature

  • Peter Goeßler : In memory of Otto Lanz. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of the people and homeland. 1929, ZDB -ID 511745-8 , p. 250.
  • Hubert Rupf: Otto Lanz. In: Peter Weidenbach (Red.): Biography of important forest people from Baden-Württemberg (= series of publications by the Baden-Württemberg State Forest Administration. Volume 55, ISSN  0521-9906 ). Published by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food, Agriculture and the Environment. Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg and Baden-Württemberg Forestry Experimental and Research Institute, Stuttgart / Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, pp. 354–356.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II. 2nd Edition. Christoph Links Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-447-1 , p. 16. (books.google.com)
  2. ↑ landesarchiv-bw.de
  3. ↑ DNB 361136242
  4. ↑ DNB 361136250
  5. ↑ DNB 575532343
  6. ↑ t2n-bonn.de (wrong year of birth stated)
personal data
SURNAME Lanz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1929
Place of death Stuttgart