Wolfgang Kotz from Dobrz

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Baron Wolfgang Marquart Kotz von Dobrz (born June 30, 1890 in Vienna ; † February 13, 1957 ibid) was an Austrian legal scholar and archivist .

Life

Wolfgang Kotz von Dobrz came from the Bohemian noble family Kotz von Dobrz . His father was the artillery officer Alexander Kotz von Dobrz (1851-1893), his mother Maria Freiin Gemmell zu Flischbach (1869-1942), the daughter of the tax officer Maximilian Freiherr Gemmell zu Flischbach (1827-1902). His paternal grandfather was the landowner and member of the state parliament Ferdinand Kotz von Dobrz (1821-1882).

Wolfgang Kotz von Dobrz grew up with two younger brothers Wenzeslaus (1891–1979) and Wilhelm (1892–1915), attended the Vienna Piarist High School and then studied law at the University of Vienna . After graduating as Dr. iur. on March 10, 1913 he passed the supplementary examination for the higher archival service and entered the civil service at the Ministry of the Interior on November 13, 1913, where he worked in the nobility department.

After the end of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy in 1918, the aristocratic department was dissolved and the aristocratic archives managed there were assigned to the Federal Chancellery as the "old free registry" . Wolfgang Kotz (now without a title of nobility) headed the aristocratic archives there until 1933, as part of restructuring measures, it was subordinated to the State Archives of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Justice . Kotz was appointed senior state archivist on December 28, 1934, received the title of Hofrat in 1946 and was promoted to the real Hofrat in 1954. In 1946 and from 1953 he was deputy head of the General Administrative Archives Department. On January 1, 1956, he retired.

Wolfgang Kotz von Dobrz died of a stroke on February 13, 1957 . He was buried in the Grinzing cemetery .

Scientific work

At the beginning of his career, Wolfgang Kotz wrote two articles on behalf of the philologist Wilhelm Kroll for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE) on the Roman legal textbooks (institutions) and the lawyer Callistratus , which are widely used and cited as material-rich and concise representations of their topic to this day become.

Through his decades of work in the archive service, Wolfgang Kotz developed into a proven expert on genealogy and heraldry . He came to the publication of scientific studies in this area only at an advanced age. He published mainly in the communications of the Austrian State Archives and in the Adler magazine .

Publications (selection)

  • For conferring nobility to Orlandus Lassus . In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchives 1, 1948, pp. 470–474.
  • The Swiss Book of Arms . In: Festschrift to celebrate the bicentenary of the house, court and state archives . Vienna 1949, pp. 304-311.
  • News from the "King Lieutenant". A subsequent contribution to the Goethe year . In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchives 3, 1950, pp. 143–158.
  • The right to award coats of arms to clerical dignitaries in Austria. An administrative history investigation . In: Yearbook Adler 1954, pp. 63–70.
  • Das Reichswappenbuch In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 7, 1954.

literature

  • Walter Goldinger : Wolfgang Kotz (1890–1957) . In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives . Volume 10 (1957), p. 549 f. ( online ).
  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 332.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Vol. 80: Freiherrliche Häuser A. Volume 13. CA Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1982, p. 217.
  2. ↑ Stammliste Kotz z Dobrze (Czech) , accessed on December 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Archive of the University of Vienna , Rector's Archives , Student Evidence: Doctoral Protocols for the Doctorate in Law, Volume 7 (1911–1915), M 32.7-594 ( online , accessed on December 17, 2016).
  4. ↑ See e.g. B .:
    • Moriz Wlassak : On the Roman Provincial Trial . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical-historical class . Volume 190, 4, Vienna 1919, p. 28 Note 30.
    • Adolf Berger : Encyclopedic dictionary of Roman law (=  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series , Volume 43, Part 2). American Philosophical Soc., Philadelphia 1953, pp. 378, 505 (English);
    • Olís Robleda: Introduzione allo studio del diritto privato romano. 2nd Edition. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Rome 1979, ISBN 88-7652-373-1 , p. 308 (Italian);
    • Hein Leopold Wilhelmus Nelson, Martin David: Tradition, structure and style of Gai Institutiones (=  Studia Gaiana , Volume 6). Brill, Leiden 1981, ISBN 90-04-06306-4 , p. 187.
personal data
SURNAME Kotz von Dobrz, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotz von Dobrz, Wolfgang Marquart Kotz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1957
Place of death Vienna