Paul Arnold Grun
Paul Arnold Grun (born June 30, 1872 in Stettin ; † March 14, 1956 in Göttingen ) was a German genealogist and author.
life and work
Grun came from a family in Silesia as the son of Captain Paul Hugo Grun and his wife Anna . He attended grammar schools in Neisse and Liegnitz as well as the gifted school of Landesschule Pforta , before taking his Abitur at the Knight Academy in Liegnitz.
In 1893 he joined the 3rd Posensche Infantry Regiment No. 58 belonging to the 9th Division in Glogau . By the beginning of the war in 1914, he had been promoted to captain and company commander in the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 in Göttingen . From then on, Göttingen was to become his adopted home. On the night of August 6, 1914, while commanding his 10th Company, he was seriously wounded in the storming of Fort Boncelles near Liège and was left untreated on the battlefield for more than twelve hours. Despite later complaints, it was still used and only declared unfit for field service in 1919. On April 1, 1924, he was retired as a councilor, most recently working in the pension office in the old barracks at Geismartor.
Early on, Grun had a passion for the auxiliary historical sciences genealogy, heraldry and writing . In 1904 and 1906 he published works on the development of the great Prussian state coat of arms and on the Silesian heraldry . He demonstrated his drawing skills in 1905 with the work on the coats of arms and guilds in Prague (1347) , which experts described as "important" .
On August 7, 1926 he was one of the founders of a family history association, at the first ordinary meeting of which he was appointed chairman. He held this office for almost 25 years. The association was called "Göttingen Genealogical Evening" based on the important "Halle Genealogical Evening". In the first few years, Grun determined the inner direction of the association with numerous lectures on the historical auxiliary sciences. In addition to topics such as “Latin in church registers” or “The Latin and German abbreviations in the late Middle Ages and in modern times”, he also addressed current issues with “Family Research and Heredity”. Attempts to bring the Göttingen genealogists into line during the National Socialist rule were prevented. Even in his retirement he continued to work tirelessly. From 1946 the association operated under the name of "Göttinger Genealogisch-Heraldische Gesellschaft" under the trademark Gruns. In addition, from 1927 to 1945 Grun was closely associated with the "Ostfälische Famlilienkundlichenommission" founded by Rudolf Borch , for which he published publications.
various
Paul Arnold Grun's collection of seals is kept in the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen . Digital copies of the seals are available in the collection portal of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .
literature
- Walter Nissen : Foreword to the key to old and new abbreviations , CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1966
- Wilhelm Wegener : Paul Arnold Grun died . In: Norddeutsche Familienkunde, 5th year, 1956, pp. 59–60
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grun, Paul Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genealogist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1956 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |