Otto Merker (archivist)

Otto Merker (born November 14, 1934 in Ströbitz ; † January 7, 2018 in Hanover ) was a German historian and archivist .

Career

Merker was born in Ströbitz as the son of a school principal. After graduating from high school Julianum in Helmstedt , he studied history and Latin in Tübingen and Hamburg . His doctoral supervisor Otto Brunner , a leading medievalist of his time, drew his attention to the profession of archivist and got him a job as an archive trainee through his contact with the then head of the Lower Saxony archive administration Rudolf Grieser. Merker started after his archival state examination "with distinction" in 1964 as an archive assessor at the State Archive in Hanover , before he became the right-hand man of the then head of the Lower Saxony archive administration Carl Haase in 1967 and his successor in 1979. During his 20-year tenure at the head of the Lower Saxony state archives, he initiated the Lower Saxony Archives Act passed in 1993 and introduced the izn-AIDA electronic archive information system.

literature

• Christine van den Heuvel : Otto Merker †, b. Ströbitz November 14, 1934, d. Hanover January 7, 2018. In: Archivist . Archive journal. Volume 71, 2018, pp. 207–208 ( online )

Web links

• Merker, Otto .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .