Ottomar Jänichen

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Ottomar Jänichen (born October 28, 1900 in Leipzig , † January 9, 1967 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German foreign trade merchant and writer. In the post-war period he was one of the founders of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe .

Life

Jänichen attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school in January 1918, he volunteered for the Saxon Army . He was a junior sergeant , and later as a deputy sergeant in Saxon News Department 12 on the Western Front . From the winter semester 1918/19 he studied political science at the University of Leipzig . He joined the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Leipzig Volunteer Regiment. In addition to his studies, he completed a commercial training in Leipzig and a bank apprenticeship in Munich. On January 19, 1923 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1924 to 1930 he worked as a manager of the timber import company Moritz Müller in Leipzig. From January 1, 1931, he was liquidator, then managing director and later also co-owner of the timber trading company Anton Peters GmbH in Düsseldorf, Hafen. In August 1939 he performed a military exercise in Infantry Regiment 34; but not called up for the armed forces in the Second World War, he was able to continue working in his woodworking company, which was important for the war effort. In early 1942 he received the War Merit Cross, Second Class. In the last months of the war he served in the Volkssturm .

In memory of the family estate Gut Dederstedt expropriated in the Soviet occupation zone , he and his wife had been using the family name Jänichen-Dederstedt since July 27, 1946, with official approval . Jänichen continued his business until June 30, 1950. From 1945 to 1950 he was also a board member of wood industry associations and co-founder of the North Rhine-Westphalia Timber Industry Council, from July 1, 1950 to September 30, 1953, General Representative of the Brügmann und Sohn wood import and molding factory in Dortmund, then from April 1, 1954 to September 31 , 1953 December 1961 general agent and personally liable partner of Franke & Fickenwirth KG in Bamberg, which he converted from a sawmill and a wood goods factory into an office furniture factory. The company applied for a patent in 1959 for a type of office desk he had invented. From 1962 he worked as a business consultant. In retirement, he and his wife ran the "Haus Rehwinkel" guest house on Kälberstein in Berchtesgaden. The wife Theodora geb. Kloberg , with whom he had been married since 1928, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her commitment to care for the elderly.

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Non-professional activities

In Leipzig in 1928 he established the tradition of corps student lecture evenings with speakers from politics, science and culture, for whom he won well-known personalities. Among them were the mayor Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , the university rector Theodor Litt and the poet Börries von Münchhausen . He had to give up his post as editor of the news paper of the Lusatia in 1934 after disputes with the National Socialist German Student Union .

In 1953/54 he participated in the development of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe as the first state representative for Westphalia , then for North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 1952 he was an honorary knight, since 1957 a legal knight of the Order of St. John . In the Evangelical Church he was active from 1945 to 1950 as a presbyter in Düsseldorf and later as a lecturer in Bamberg and Berchtesgaden.

Publications

  • The economic importance of oak . Diss. Leipzig 1923.
  • As Arcadia's golden days and other stories from post-war corps life . Zeulenroda 1931.
  • Visit to Taizé-Les-Cluny . Quatember 1953.
  • The brother from the ghetto , Velbert / Kettwig 1966 (under the pseudonym Erwin Dederstedt).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 3/817
  3. ↑ Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty Leipzig 1923 1. pp. 99–100.
  4. ↑ The data on the curriculum vitae are based on Jänichen's own information in the personnel files in the Corps Lusatia archive. [1]
  5. ^ Message from the wife in Jänichen's personal files
  6. ↑ Patent DE 1139955 B
  7. ↑ Berchtesgadener Anzeiger of October 29, 1986, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Erich Bauer : History of the Corps Lusatia in Leipzig 1807-1932 . Zeulenroda 1932, p. 428.
  9. ↑ List of the first 25 men's evenings in: Corps-Zeitung der Lusatia zu Leipzig, 23rd year, issue 3, WS 1933/34, pp. 117–119.
  10. ^ Egbert Weiß : Lusatia contra NSDStB. The dispute with the NS student union Leipzig in 1934 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 17 (1972), pp. 145–153.
  11. ^ Obituary by the JUH federal management and the NRW state management in: Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe, 15th year, No. 1/1967, title page.
  12. ↑ Quatember 1953
personal data
SURNAME Jänichen, Ottomar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foreign trade merchant and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1967
Place of death Berchtesgaden