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Otto Meissner

1880 to 1953 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Otto Meissner across 4 places, from 1898 to 1908. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Otto Lebrecht Eduard Daniel Meissner (13 March 1880 – 27 May 1953) was head of the Office of the President of Germany from 1920 to 1945 during nearly the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and, finally, under the Nazi government under Adolf Hitler.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Otto Meissner was documented, and when

1898 to 1903period
Straßburgattested “The son of a postal official, Meissner studied law in Straßburg from 1898 to 1903, where he also became a member of the Straßburg Student Youth Fraternity (Burschenschaft) Germania.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
1898 to 1903period
Straattested “The son of a postal official, Meissner studied law in Straßburg from 1898 to 1903, where he also became a member of the Straßburg Student Youth Fraternity (Burschenschaft) Germania.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
1908year
Erlangenattested “Later, he also studied in Berlin and earned his Doctor of Laws in 1908, at the age of 28, in Erlangen, Bavaria.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
1908year
Berlinattested “Later, he also studied in Berlin and earned his Doctor of Laws in 1908, at the age of 28, in Erlangen, Bavaria.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner

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Places Otto Meissner is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1908
Erlangen1 presence · 1908
Stra1 presence · 1898
Straßburg1 presence · 1898

Other places tied to Otto Meissner in the record

In each of these, a source puts Otto Meissner and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Otto Meissner was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1918year
Kievmentioned “He was then accepted into the diplomatic service and from 1918 acted as a German chargé d'affaires to the very shortlived Ukrainian government in Kiev.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
1919year
Bucharestmentioned “Until 1919 he was more active behind the front as a military railroad official, first in Bucharest, then in Kyiv.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
1919year
Kyivmentioned “Until 1919 he was more active behind the front as a military railroad official, first in Bucharest, then in Kyiv.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner
May 1949month
Munichmentioned “Two years later, in May 1949, he was accused again, this time in Munich, and was adjudged a fellow traveler.” source: Wikipedia: Otto Meissner

Documented at the same place, the same year

Emmy NoetherErlangen · 1908Konstantin StanislavskiGermany · 1908Fedor von BockGermany · 1908Walther BotheGermany · 1908Victoria of BadenGermany · 1908Bruno TautGermany · 1908Elsa EinsteinGermany · 1908

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