{"id":51441,"date":"2020-09-23T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/?page_id=51441"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:44:12","slug":"team-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/en\/about-us\/team-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Team of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14\">\n#top .avia-section.av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 .scroll-down-link{\ncolor:#004942;\n}\n#top .avia-section.av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 .scroll-down-link.avia-svg-icon svg:first-child{\nstroke:#004942;\nfill:#004942;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-custom-scroll-down-color avia-svg-icon avia-font-svg_entypo-fontello' data-av_svg_icon='down-open-mini' data-av_iconset='svg_entypo-fontello'><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"15\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 15 32\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" aria-labelledby='av-svg-title-1' aria-describedby='av-svg-desc-1' role=\"graphics-symbol\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<title id='av-svg-title-1'>Scroll to next section<\/title>\n<desc id='av-svg-desc-1'>Scroll to next section<\/desc>\n<path d=\"M12.96 12.16q0.704-0.832 1.536 0 0.832 0.704 0 1.536l-6.272 6.144q-0.704 0.704-1.536 0l-6.272-6.144q-0.832-0.832 0-1.536 0.768-0.768 1.6 0l5.44 4.992z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><\/a><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-51441'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-be3fc895b856b2e8516523cf0db79b18\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-be3fc895b856b2e8516523cf0db79b18{\npadding-bottom:30px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-be3fc895b856b2e8516523cf0db79b18 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-be3fc895b856b2e8516523cf0db79b18 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-be3fc895b856b2e8516523cf0db79b18 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Kompetenzteam<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kff8l20e-2540e45320c258a880e8d7a771bd9466\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kff8l20e-2540e45320c258a880e8d7a771bd9466{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kff8l20e-2540e45320c258a880e8d7a771bd9466 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kff8l20e-2540e45320c258a880e8d7a771bd9466 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kff8l20e-2540e45320c258a880e8d7a771bd9466 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Dr. Harald Heimbach<\/h2><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Executive Director<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-5bdf3706ef7972061f16476044ea0f2e '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr. Harald Heimbach was born in 1966 in Ehingen on the Danube. He attended elementary school from 1972-1976, then secondary school until 1981. This was followed by three years of high school in Ulm. In 1984\/85 he did his military service in the air force.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This was followed by a degree in industrial engineering in Esslingen, which he graduated with honors in 1991. Among other things, he financed his studies as a freelancer at Pro Heraldica. He began his work at Pro Heraldica in May 1990, following his studies as an assistant to the management, and in 1996 he took over management himself.<\/p>\n<p>He has been the main shareholder since 1997 and the sole shareholder since 2001. In 2001 he succeeded in uniting the two companies that had been the most important companies in Germany to date, Pro Heraldica, and the Wappengilde founded by Alfred Dochtermann in 1937 under one roof through this acquisition. In 2010 the company also received the international accolade. Pro Heraldica organized the world congress of genealogical and heraldic sciences in Stuttgart. In 2013 Pro Heraldica USA was founded. On July 29th, 2020 he defended his dissertation at the renowned Comenius University in Bratislava in: management on an internationalization strategy for Pro Heraldica under the direction of Prof. Ing.Lubica Bajzikova PhD.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to many interests, he has two main hobbies: history and sports. It used to be football, tennis and athletics. Today he trains in the gym, runs marathons and is fascinated by triathlon. He completed his first middle-distance Ironman at the age of 51 in 2017. This was followed by a few more competitions, and he would like to practice this versatile sport into old age if possible.<\/p>\n<p>He prefers to run through the woods around Stuttgart with his two Rhodesian Ridgebacks.<\/p>\n<p>He has been married to Petra Heimbach since 2012. Both want to use the next 25 years to pass Pro Heraldica on to the 4th generation and to offer the services to a more international audience.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jjpp15mq-bfe09c6cf04a0d2776e32da25e79283b\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-jjpp15mq-bfe09c6cf04a0d2776e32da25e79283b{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-jjpp15mq-bfe09c6cf04a0d2776e32da25e79283b hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first 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Herzog born Kech<\/h2><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Scientific Director<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-3b1247b6db7cdda17f276d52e373b8c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Scientific director at Pro Heraldica since January 1st, 2017. Clemens L. Kech was born on March 19, 1985 in Ulm, where he grew up and went to school. After successfully passing his Abitur in 2004, he studied history and English \/ American studies at Connecticut College in New London, USA and at the University of Stuttgart, which he graduated with the state examination in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens Kech was already connected to the Pro Heraldica during his studies (from 2007). In 2014 he accepted a permanent position as assistant to the scientific management in our company. He was (and continues to be) in intensive exchange with our long-term scientific director Dr. Rolf Sutter whose areas of responsibility he gradually began to take over. In summer 2016 this was initially the head of the genealogy department; In January 2017, he was given responsibility for the heraldry and scientific management of Pro Heraldica.<\/p>\n<p>In his free time, he deals primarily with German and American literature in addition to historical topics; he likes to play the piano and has been a footballer in the club since his youth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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.heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kff8outv-2a756fd958fbd2e1086b558c279d18b6 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kff8outv-2a756fd958fbd2e1086b558c279d18b6 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-17  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Dr. Rolf Sutter<\/h2><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Scientific Advisory Board<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-3b1247b6db7cdda17f276d52e373b8c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Born 1944.<br \/>\nMarried, three children<br \/>\nHigh school graduate<br \/>\nStudied German philology, political science, art history, psychology.<br \/>\nCompleted studies with a degree for his thesis on the genealogical structures in Wolfram von Eschenbach\u2019s \u201cParzival\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>scientific director at PRO HERALDICA from 1980-2016<\/li>\n<li>Since 1.1.2017, scientific advisory board at Pro Heraldica<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Acad\u00e9mie Internationale d\u2019H\u00e9raldique<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Acad\u00e9mie Internationale de G\u00e9n\u00e9alogie<\/li>\n<li>President of the Wappen-HEROLD, Deutsche Heraldische Gesellschaft e.V.<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the foundation council of the Gerhard Tietz Stiftung Heraldik Internationale<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Association of German-speaking Professional Genealogists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 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el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-3b1247b6db7cdda17f276d52e373b8c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr. Rolf Sutter first got to know Dr. Ottfried Neubecker whose work and personality had always fascinated him in 1980. This first meeting led to 12 years of close cooperation. For Dr. Sutter these years were an invaluable apprenticeship and for Dr. Neubecker an opportunity to promote a successor to his life\u2019s work. He consequently appointed Dr. Sutter as treasurer in 1980 in the association Wappen HEROLD Deutsche Heraldische Gesellschaft e.V. which he had founded in 1967 and which Dr. Sutter still directs today as its president.<\/p>\n<p>What began then was for both a lucky strike even though the common benefits were at first one-sided. Dr. Sutter learned the tools of his trade which he needed for scientific and creative heraldry from the most important German-speaking herald of the day. Very soon, Dr. Neubecker was able to harvest the fruits of his intellectual investments and the birth and growth of his favorite project the ALLGEMEINE DEUTSCHE WAPPENROLLE (the General German Heraldic Register). The first volume appeared in 1980 under the direction of Dr. Sutter and is still continued by him today.<\/p>\n<p>On Dr. Neubecker retirement and death in 1992, Dr. Rolf Sutter followed in Neubecker\u2019s international footsteps. He attended international congresses and colloquia and expanded Dr. Neubecker\u2019s numerous national and international contacts. In the aftermath, Dr. Sutter held numerous lectures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1999 International Colloquium St. P\u00f6lten: Gampilun and Ecidemon \u2013 on the function of heraldry in Wolfram von Eschenbach\u2019s \u201cParzival\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2000 International Congress in Besaucon: Genealogy as a medium of social and individual identity: the \u201cParzival\u201d novel by Wolfram von Eschenbach.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2001 International Colloquium Groningen: Talking elements in communal heraldry and heraldic development in the second half of the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2002 International Congress Dublin: Logo ad Portas \u2013 snapshots of the current relationship between \u201cidentity icons\/logo\u201d and coats of arms in German State heraldry.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2004 International Congress Bruges: Genealogy and heraldry at the beginning of the third millennium<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2005 24<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Austrian Historians\u2019 Day\u00a0 Innsbruck: Back to the future \u2013 South Africa\u2019s new heraldic identity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2005 International Colloquium St. Petersburg- Emanzipation in heraldry- women\u2019s right to bear a name and a coat of arms\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2006 International Congress St Andrews: \u201cTrees that grow up into the sky?-genealogy between myths, explanation of the world and transcendency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2007 International Colloquium Xanten: The shields of the free cities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2008 International Congress Quebec: Qu\u00e8te et Reconqu\u00e8te (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quest and<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">re-conquest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) \u2013 colonial and post-colonial heraldry in Africa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2009 International Colloquium Verviers: Heraldry in Germany and German-speaking countries<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2010 International Congress Stuttgart scheduled : The Heraldic Spring\u00a0 ; heraldry and identity\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Sutter a worked together with Pro Heraldic as Dr. Neubecker had done and still looks after and maintains the heritage and the reference library. In thirty years, Dr. Sutter has directed hundreds of genealogical researches and carried out more than 3,000 researches into coats of arms and their design.<\/p>\n<p>During one of his lectures, one of his international colleagues described Dr. Sutter as follows\u201d Dr. Sutter is a phenomenon. He is just as happy in the field of genealogy as he is in heraldry. Regarding heraldry, his expertise covers the Middle Ages up to the present day, from public heraldry to family heraldry both in the theoretical and in the creative field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What is striking is his commitment to current living heraldry. His lecture in Dublin in 2002 Logo ad Portas led to the spontaneous foundation of the \u201cSt\u00e4ndige Komitee f\u00fcr zeitgen\u00f6ssische Heraldik\u201d (a permanent committee for contemporary heraldry) under the umbrella of the Internationale Akademie der Heraldik. The committee strives to establish generally accepted heraldic principles on a national level.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever he participates in at an international level he follows up on a national level. Explanations on heraldry on a wide basis, struggle against unprofessional handling of the subject, standardization of the rights to bear a coat of arms, the establishment and institutionalization of a center of competence for conscientious experts, the creation of a generally binding regulations are all matters to which he is openly dedicated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14\">\n#top .avia-section.av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 .scroll-down-link{\ncolor:#004942;\n}\n#top .avia-section.av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 .scroll-down-link.avia-svg-icon svg:first-child{\nstroke:#004942;\nfill:#004942;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_4'  class='avia-section av-4fr4u8-4299cd9ef3613afbf7912662f9327b14 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-custom-scroll-down-color avia-svg-icon avia-font-svg_entypo-fontello' data-av_svg_icon='down-open-mini' data-av_iconset='svg_entypo-fontello'><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"15\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 15 32\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" aria-labelledby='av-svg-title-4' aria-describedby='av-svg-desc-4' role=\"graphics-symbol\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<title id='av-svg-title-4'>Scroll to next section<\/title>\n<desc id='av-svg-desc-4'>Scroll to next section<\/desc>\n<path d=\"M12.96 12.16q0.704-0.832 1.536 0 0.832 0.704 0 1.536l-6.272 6.144q-0.704 0.704-1.536 0l-6.272-6.144q-0.832-0.832 0-1.536 0.768-0.768 1.6 0l5.44 4.992z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><\/a><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-51441'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11tileo-470eca6818ae313ac55a91c51c93f9d6 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-25  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-7bec9f486378a4ab6b64dd76429c6050\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-7bec9f486378a4ab6b64dd76429c6050{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-7bec9f486378a4ab6b64dd76429c6050 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-7bec9f486378a4ab6b64dd76429c6050 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-7bec9f486378a4ab6b64dd76429c6050 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-26  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Dr. Ottfried Neubecker<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-3b1247b6db7cdda17f276d52e373b8c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Ottfried Neubecker was one of the greatest experts on heraldry of the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Neubecker, who in professional circles was known as \u201cthe Pope of Heraldry\u201d would have celebrated his hundredth birthday in 2008.\u00a0 Dr. phil. Ottfried Neubecker was born on March 22, 1908 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father was Prof. Karl Neubecker, his mother was Ren\u00e9e, n\u00e9e von Meyenburg. At the age of six, he already showed great interest in coats of arms and standards \u2013 a passion which was to accompany him all his life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His father insisted that he read law after gaining his university entrance qualification, but he soon changed over to studying history and art history. He studied at the universities in Geneva, Heidelberg and Berlin where he was awarded a PhD in 1931 for his thesis \u201cGerman Coats of arms 1806-1871\u201d. At the same time, he was working with the then Reich art supervisor, Edwin Redslob and later in the Reich Department of the Interior and Naval Administration. Neubecker was able to distance himself from the prevailing Nazi ideology in spite of the pressure put upon him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this time, Ottfried Neubecker created more than 50 municipal coats of arms, drafts for ecclesiastical crests and concepts for academic insignia and coats of arms. In addition, he was employed on behalf of the aforementioned ministries to work on official standard works and further more was involved with leading publishers such as Brockhaus, Knaur, Chamber\u2019s Encyclopaedia and many others as an advisor. The Gestapo had an eye on him several times as his wife was Jewish but by frequently switching his place of residence, he was able to escape persecution right up to the end of the war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 1945, Ottfried Neubecker took on teaching at the universities of Mainz and Berlin. Although he was born and bred in Berlin and after the Second World War \u2013 politically unencumbered \u2013 helped many cultural associations to renew their permits, he located his activities from the Fifties onwards increasingly to the Federal Republic of Germany where he continued his work first in Wiesbaden, later in Stuttgart until 1992.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These were the years of his success when he received numerous distinctions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commander with star of the Spanish Order of Knights from Raimundo de Pe\u0148afort (Comendador de numero de la Orden de raimundo de Pe\u0148afort), December 13, 1955.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andr\u00e9 Duchesne Award (Spain), 1956<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of the Board of the International Academy of Heraldry, 1964<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific advisor to Pro Heraldic as from 1977.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C.-F. Menestrier Award (Spain), 1977<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President of the HEROLD, Deutsche Heraldische Gesellschaft as from 1978<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holder of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1982\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gustav-von-Numers Award, Finland, 1982<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M\u00e9daille de m\u00e9rite de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Interantionale de G\u00e9nealogie et d\u2019H\u00e9raldique, 19085<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honorable and corresponding member in almost all genealogical, heraldic, vexillological and phaleristic professional associations in Europe and overseas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ottfried Neubecker was an all-rounder scientist. He always viewed his special fields of knowledge i.e. heraldry (the study of armorial bearings) and vexillology (the study of flags) and phaleristics (the study of orders, medals and decorations) to be an interdisciplinary science and became a sort of \u201cwalking encyclopedia\u201d for his employees and colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ottfried Neubecker dedicated 25 years of his life to Pro Heraldic in whose foundation and development he was significantly involved. After almost 80 years, we still have his today\u2019s renowned reference library in the company! He was able to implement many of his ambitious projects; he trained and educated people who are continuing his work today. He was known for his strong opinion that heraldry was a topic to be dealt with professionally. He helped thousands of families with the researching, verification, rectification and granting of family crests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His literature is documented in 300 individual letters, anonymous cooperation in the work of others, translations, work on encyclopedia e.g. periodicals, essays in newspapers and journals, advertisements and images etc. We can make this comprehensive list of publications available to anyone who is interested in reading or downloading it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can download <a href=\"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/PDF\/Presse\/Bibliographie-Neubecker.pdf\">his bibliography in German here<\/a> (PDF, 21MB)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01\">\n.flex_column.av-11tileo-49f01c96bd32ffae5046b4e504ec1f01{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  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av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-33  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Alfred Dochtermann<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjpoap3q-3b1247b6db7cdda17f276d52e373b8c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Alfred Dochtermann was a renowned herald and genealogist. He was self-taught as these occupational titles were neither protected in Germany nor did any kind of training exist for such professions.<\/p>\n<p>In 60 years of research, he collected a unique archive of family history and an important specialist reference library for genealogy and heraldry. They are both regarded as the second largest private collection containing more than 30,000 research files with information from pre-war sources which are no longer accessible. They further contain unique documentation and a bibliography. Alfred Dochtermann\u2019s life work is surpassed only by the famous collection of Ottfried Neubecker.<\/p>\n<p>During his life, Alfred Dochtermann created 10,000 \u2013 20,000 coats of arms plus a forum for the right to bear arms with a series of publications entitled \u201cWappenrolle Dochtermann\u201d(Dochtermann\u2019s Heraldic Register).<\/p>\n<p>After the death of Hans Winter, his successor, both collections passed into the possession of Pro Heraldica.<br \/>\nOf all the coats of arms created by Dochtermann only a mere 2,500 were published and so protected (some of them with genealogical data in the Dochtermann heraldic register). Most of the family coats of arms and genealogical data are still slumbering in the around 30,000 research files. 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