Otto Edler von Graeve

Otto Edler von Graeve ( born July 22, 1872 in God's forest, circle Morag, † January 10, 1948 in Heidelberg ) was a German divining researchers.

Life

He is the son of Emil Edler von Graeve (1826-1904), who came from a raised to the peerage family and Lord God to the forest and Neuhof was. The Major Otto Edler von Graeve settled after his active service in the Prussian army in the small town of Anhalt Gernrode down. In 1913 he published his major work there My dowsing activities. Observations in theory and practice, together with an appendix: recognitions, log of all trenching until December 31, 1912 and statistics.

Supposedly by transitions with the divining Graeve found in 1918 on the Schwedderberg at Gernrode a mineral spring, which was then used for the local swimming pool, which was named after him Ottobad.

Consistent meaning he received for the Saxon Thermal Wiesenbad, where he in May 1920 on behalf of Meyer and Co. - also allegedly using his divining rod - found through a bore of the engineer Roettinger from Halle ( Saale), a thermal water, which at the time of his development with 25 degree Celsius heat hence flow 5.2 m above ground and had a yield of 210 liters per minute. This source was then passed directly into a brick fountain.

Because of his success, he was commissioned in 1920 by the city of Reutlingen to be carried holes. After he let this vain take up to a depth of 126 meters, he was expelled from the village.

He was not only in Germany but also abroad, such as in the U.S. - according to the New York Times hit Graeve on January 27, 1914, the NDL Line Steamship George Washington in New York City a -, on the Sinai Peninsula and in Palestine as a dowser. So have Graeve, (21 /22 of November 1, 1915 No ) underground, according to a report in the German Levante newspaper in the German temple colony, on the site of the Auguste -Viktoria Foundation on the Mount of Olives and on the of the Syrian Orphanage discovered watercourses.

Otto married on April 1, 1902 in Danzig Elsbeth Schrey (* October 19, 1882 in Gdansk, † January 9, 1970 in Heidelberg). With her he had seven children ( four sons and three daughters ).

Works

  • Confirmations of successful prospecting by means of the divining rod of the dowser. Albrecht, Osterode, nd (1911 ).
  • The dowsing and its application in practice. Osterode 1911.
  • My dowsing activities. Observations in theory and practice, together with an appendix: recognitions, log of all trenching until December 31, 1912 and statistics. Müller, Gernrode 1913.
  • Hildesheim, nd (1914 ).
  • Authorities and divining. Hampel, Gernrode undated ( 1921).
  • Excerpt from the successes of my dowsing activities of 1910 until 1928. Padelt, Gernrode 1928.
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