Anton von Ditfurth

Anton von Ditfurth (born November 26, 1588 in Stadthagen ; † May 7, 1650 ibid) was a senior German administrative officer and one of 890 members of the Fruit-Bringing Society .

Life

Anton von Ditfurth was the oldest son of Drosten zu Stadthagen Hans von Ditfurth and his wife Anna Margarethe von Bardeleben . In 1597, at the age of nine, Ditfurth became the page of Count Julius von Holstein-Schaumburg . He held this office until 1600.

On October 24, 1604, Ditfurth enrolled at the University of Marburg and remained so until 1606. In that year he began his two-year Cavalier tour through France, Great Britain and the Netherlands. After his return he was court squire in Stadthagen and Bückeburg from 1608 to 1614 . He then advanced to Drosten von Stadthagen and thus succeeded his father.

On October 1st, 1615 he married Katharina von Haxthausen . When his wife died on July 11, 1640, he married Lucia Elisabeth von Oeynhausen on July 2, 1641 after the obligatory year of mourning had passed . Anton von Ditfurth died in Stadthagen at the age of 62 and found his final resting place there.

Membership in the Fruitful Society

In autumn 1636, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted Ditfurth as a member of the Fruit-Bringing Society on the occasion of his passage through Stadthagen . Ditfurth the Unworthy was given as a member name . As a motto it was intended for water and as an emblem the beautiful woman's hair . Ditfurth's Law of Rhyme, which he wrote upon his introduction to this association, can also be found in the Koethen Society Book under No. 272:

“That beautiful Frawenhaar is a herb is not condoned

Of water, against which the truck can resist and defend

That it does not get damp, therefore I said

I am the one who is known as Vnß

There is no water in it, special way must flow.

So if the flood of blasphemers wants to pour in,

So beautiful fruit is brought forth through virtue

And only really put an end to the slander ”.