Ottfried Neubecker

Ottfried Neubecker (born 22 March 1908 in Charlottenburg, † July 8, 1992 in Wiesbaden, Germany ) was one of the most famous and heraldist vexillologists of modernity.

Life

Ottfried Neubecker, son of the jurist Friedrich Karl Neubecker studied at the Universities of Geneva, Heidelberg and Berlin. His heraldic career began in the 1920s. With the work the German coat of arms from 1806 to 1871. he was 1931 Dr. phil. doctorate. Neubecker was instrumental in the establishment of Heraldry also in the bourgeois environment. With his publications in book form and in heraldic magazines, he also contributed to the scientific aspect of Heraldry account. From 1934 to 1945, next to Kurt -Gerhard Klietmann one of the main authors of the journal uniforms market. In 1982 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Writings

• Erik Wolf: The imperial unity flag. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1926.
• Veit Valentin: The German colors. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1929.
• The German Coat of Arms from 1806 to 1871. Kretschmer, Görlitz - Biesnitz 1931 (. Berlin, Univ, Diss, 1931), ( also in: . Archive for Sippenforschung and all related areas Vol. 8, No. 9, 1931, ISSN 0003-9403, pp. 289-328 ).
• German and French for heraldist. Directory and translation of the vocabulary contained in the coat of arms features of both languages ​​. Stargardt, Berlin 1934 ( See also: Battenberg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-87045-908-5 ).
• Banners and flags. Staackmann, Leipzig 1939.
• High Command of the Navy: Flag book. ( Flg.B. ). Completed on December 1, 1939. Reichsdruckerei, Berlin, 1939.
• Small Coat Primer. An Introduction to Heraldry for people of today. Rosgarten Verlag, Konstanz 1969.
• Heraldry. Coat of arms - their origin, meaning and value. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-8105-1306-7.
• A Guide to Heraldry. McGraw Hill, New York, NY 1979, ISBN 0-07-046312-3.
• Great Seal images lexicon of bourgeois families in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Battenberg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-87045-906-9.