Otto von Cossel (genealogist)

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Otto Maximilian Detloff von Cossel (born July 14, 1883 in Geldern , † July 10, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) was a German genealogist and author. The genealogist was "probably the best expert on Mecklenburg family history" .

Life

He came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Cossel and was the son of the royal Prussian secret councilor Otto von Cossel (1845–1915) from the house of Jersbek and Sophie Countess von Zeppelin-Aschhausen (1856–1945). Cossel was born in Geldern in 1883, where his father was district administrator at the time . His younger brother was the officer of the Imperial Air Force , observation pilot and Colonel Maximilian von Cossel (1897–1967), who died just two months after him.

Cossel married Hildegard von Glasenapp (born October 15, 1893 in Berlin, † December 25, 1950 in Berlin-Nikolassee ) on September 25, 1913 in Berlin , the daughter of the Imperial Real Secret Council and Vice-President of the Reichsbank Directorate Dr. jur. Otto von Glasenapp (1853–1928) and Elisabeth (Lili) Jähns . The marriage remained childless.

His maneuver diary 1902–1914 and his war diaries 1914–1919 with maps from the First World War are now stored in the Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg im Breisgau .

In 1921 Cossel resigned as a major from the Black Reichswehr and switched to banking as an employee. Most recently he was head of the archive and the economic department of the discount company in Berlin until 1945 .

Since around 1923 Cossel was concerned with Mecklenburg history and family research. He was u. a. Member of the Herold genealogical association and the Central Office for German Personal and Family History . In the time of the Third Reich he was responsible for the role of the coat of arms and the processing of the newsletters Der deutsche Roland in the Verein Deutscher Roland . After the Second World War he was responsible for the Mecklenburg volumes of the German Gender Book.

He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John and knight of the House Order of Hohenzollern with swords.

On July 10, 1967 - four days before his 84th birthday - Cossel was hit by a car while crossing the street in Wiesbaden and was fatally injured.

Works (selection)

  • Master series of the lords and barons von Watter , self-published, Berlin 1929; Additions and Corrections in 1934
  • The du Plat , a Hanoverian officer family , in: Deutscher Herold , Heft 4 + 5, Verlag Heymann, Berlin 1931
  • Lineage of the Kossel family, v. Cossel from Bohemia , in: German Gender Book , Volume 57, CA Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1928
  • Kossel (pedigree), in: German Gender Book , Volume 74, CA Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1931
  • Supplements and corrections to the line of origin and pedigree Kossel , in: German gender book , CA Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1935
  • with Herbert von Schmude: Book and magazine directory of the library of the German Roland, Association for German-Völkische Kippenkunde zu Berlin , Verlag Bütower Anzeiger, Berlin 1936
  • What do we know about the ancestors of Hans Kossel, who immigrated to Mecklenburg in the second half of the 17th century, about their origins and their homeland? Family history forays into the former Electorate of Saxony, Berlin, 1947

Orders and decorations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Archives for Family Research , Volumes 33–34, Verlag CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1969, page 230 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ Central database of bequests
  3. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): German Gender Book , Volume 120, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1955, Page XXIV ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Cossel, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cossel, Otto Maximilian Detloff von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genealogist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Funds
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1967
Place of death Wiesbaden