Rudolf Kötzschke

[1] In 1889, he was awarded a doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on Ruprecht von der Pfalz und das Konzil zu Pisa, the following year he passed the Staatsexamen.

In 1906, he was also appointed director of the Institute for Regional History and Settlement Studies, a position he held until 1936.

During the Nazi era, he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare, the Reichsluftschutzbund and the Reichskolonialbund.

[4] In November 1933 he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.

[6] After World War II, Kötzschke was again entrusted with the direction of the Institute for German Regional and Folk History from 1946 to 1949, which was reopened on 7 October 1946.

Kötzschke continued to teach at the University of Leipzig until shortly before his death on 3 August 1949 and endeavoured to rebuild the destroyed seminar library.