Otto Marzinek

Otto Marzinek (born August 8, 1912 in Viersen ; † May 24, 1986 in Gummersbach ) was a German lawyer with a doctorate , a higher regional judge and judge in Cologne, as well as a medal collector.

Otto Marzinek passed his legal state exams with commendable success as part of his legal training . In 1938 at the University of Cologne he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . As Judge at District Court Cologne Marzinek initiated in recent years of the II. World War the local Association for the Legal clerkship in Cologne .

Marzinek founded Georg Wimmelmann and Peter Berghaus 1967, the Association of the German medal friends and was following its name change to German Medal Society (DMG) from 1971 until his death the Chairman.

Marzinek represented the Federal Republic of Germany as a delegate in the International Medal Society FIDEM and organized the XIVth FIDEM World Congress on Contemporary Medal Art in Cologne in 1971.

As chairman of the DMG, he awarded numerous orders to domestic and foreign medalists . He had the important art medals from Benno Elkan for Goethe , Gerhart Hauptmann and Gustav Mahler refilled in limited editions.

His heiress handed over his collection of around 800 contemporary art medals to the Münzkabinett Berlin in 1994 . A catalog of the collection was published in 1994 by Wolfgang Steguweit under the title The Image of Man on Medals of the 20th Century - Marzinek Collection .

Portraits

• 1978 bronze bust of Fritz Nuß (1907–1999), location: Bode-Museum , Münzkabinett
• 1970 Cast bronze medal, 75 mm, by József Reményi , Budapest (1887–1977). Literature: Marzinek Collection, p. 8
• 1971 cast bronze medal, 118 mm, by Tommaso Geraci (* 1931)
• 1975 cast bronze medal, 114 mm, by Fritz Nuss. Marzinek Collection, p. 9, cover picture
• 1975 cast bronze medal, one-sided, 118 mm, by Fritz Nuss. Head portrait wreathed with vine leaves to the left. Exhibition catalog on the 100th birthday of Fritz Nuss, Medals II, Speyer 2007, p. 29 No. 129
• 1980 cast bronze medal, 93 mm, by Johannes Henke (* 1924)
• 1982 Medal model No. 1 in plaster, 105 mm, by Siegmund Schütz . Marzinek Collection, p. 10 Fig. 3
• 1982 Medal model No. 2 in plaster, 105 mm, by Siegmund Schütz. Marzinek Collection, p. 10 Fig. 4

Publications

• Add. with Otto Heuschele: Fritz Nuss - medals. Theiss, Stuttgart and Aalen, 1977.
• Medal Cabinet. Bulletin of the German Medal Society e. V., Cologne.

literature

• Wolfgang Steguweit: The image of man on medals of the 20th century. Marzinek Collection (= The Cabinet, Vol. 1). Münzkabinett, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88609-282-8 .

supporting documents

1. ^ ^{A b} Matthias Herbers, Organizations in War: Die Justizverwaltung im Oberlandesgerichtsgericht Köln 1939-1945 , Mohr Siebeck Verlag , 2012, ISBN 9783161518874 , p. 247 fn. 196.
2. ↑ On his ideas and the conflict with Georg Wimmelmann Ingrid S. Weber: Findings on the medal creation of the Swabian sculptor Fritz Nuss (1907–1999). In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 60 (2010), pp. 207–242, here pp. 231–233; Eberhard Linke , Hans Liepmann: Georg Wimmelmann - memories of a friend. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF).