Otto Leiner

Otto Leiner (born June 26, 1856 in Konstanz ; † January 30, 1931 there ) was a German pharmacist , museum director and archivist.

Live and act

Otto Leiner was the son of the Constance pharmacist, local politician and museum founder Ludwig Leiner (* 1830, † 1901) and his wife Thekla, b. Baur (* 1833, † 1896). He attended high school in Constance, then learned pharmacy from his father and worked as a pharmaceutical assistant in Münster, Flensburg, Ichenheim (Neuried) and Bern. From 1878 to 1880 he studied pharmacy in Munich and then returned to Konstanz, where he supported his father in managing the Malhaus pharmacy, which he took over entirely in 1893, and in managing the Rosgarten Museum , whose second honorary curator he was Was ordered in 1892. In the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , he relieved his father of the management in Constance from 1898, before he was appointed to the board in 1906 as a representative of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Otto Leiner was also in honorary office from 1893 to 1905 city archivist of Konstanz, then from 1912 to 1926 "state curator for art and antiquity monuments". After his father's death in 1901, he took over his seat on the Konstanz city council. In 1918, Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden awarded him the First Class Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

Otto Leiner married Martha, b. Schiffmann, with whom he had three sons and two daughters, of whom Bruno (* 1890, † 1954) succeeded him in all important matters. His grandchildren include Sigrid von Blanckenhagen (* 1918, † 2005) and Ulrich Leiner (* 1921, † 1994).

Fonts (selection)

• A giant figure from Constance. In: Baden find reports. Volume 1, 1925/28, pp. 165-166. Digitized
• A bronze depot find near Bermatingen. In: Baden find reports. Volume 1, 1925/28, p. 303. Digitized
• Roman Constance. In: Badische Heimat. Volume 13, 1926, pp. 47-50.
• The members of the Constance Council from 1550 to 1800. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 27, 1898, pp. 148-160. Digitized
• Chronicle of the city of Constance. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 26, 1897, pp. 114-117. Digitized
• From the chronicle of the city of Konstanz 1893. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 23, 1894, pp. 70-72. Digitized
• From the chronicle of the city of Konstanz 1892. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 22, 1893, pp. 112-113. Digitized
• From the chronicle of the city of Konstanz 1891. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 21, 1892, pp. 218-220. Digitized

literature

• Tatiana Sfedu: A Constance citizens' organization. The Rosgarten Museum since Ludwig Leiner. (= Small series of publications by the Konstanz City Archives, Volume 7). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-640-3 , here pp. 147–148.
• NN: Otto Leiner. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 60, 1932/33, pp. 16-17. Digitized
• Jürgen Klöckler : The Leiner family. From St. Gallen to Constance. In: Harald Derschka, Jürgen Klöckler (Hrsg.): Der Bodensee. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7995-1724-9 , p. 194 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 220, p. 225. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .