Ascan Lutteroth (Genealogist)

Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth (* December 6, 1874 in Hamburg ; † August 1, 1960 there ) was a long-time district court director in Hamburg. In retirement he worked as a genealogist on Hamburg families and was the responsible editor of the edition "Hamburg Gender Book".

family

Ascan Lutteroth was the son of the Hamburg merchant Arthur Lutteroth and Mathilde, nee Lutteroth. He was a great-grandson of Hamburg Senator Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth .

Life

Lutteroth first attended the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hamburg , then the Johanneum , where he graduated from high school in November 1895 . He then traveled to France, Spain and Portugal, and later Norway and Denmark. From 1895 on he studied law at the University of Tübingen , where he was enthusiastically first consigned to the Corps Suevia in 1896/1897 , and then studied at the University of Berlin and Göttingen . In September 1900 he passed the First State Examination in Berlin , became a Baccalaureus in September 1900 and received his doctorate in Leipzig in July 1901. jur.

On October 1, 1900, he joined the Fusilier Regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holstein) No. 86 in Flensburg as a one-year volunteer . From April 1905 he was a trainee lawyer in Hamburg and passed the second state examination there, was deputy public prosecutor there , and from April 1908 district judge . During the First World War he was used as a judge- martial at the front, first with the staff of the independent 111th Infantry Division in France, then with the 8th Army as head of the Supreme Court based in Reval (today: Tallinn , Estonia ).

After the First World War, Lutteroth was regional court director in Hamburg from 1921 and head of a chamber for commercial matters, from 1928 to 1939 head of a civil chamber . During the war years 1939-1942 he served again as Judge Advocate of the 6th Army in Holland, Belgium, France, Poland and Russia. In 1942, at the age of 67, he was released from Kharkov for his homeland.

Pillow stone Ascan Wilh. Lutteroth , family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

In April 1942 he retired and since then has been engaged in family history research, collecting family pictures and coats of arms . In addition to his own family, he also dealt intensively with other well-known Hamburg sexes, which he published as the responsible editor in the " Hamburg Gender Book ", but also in eight of his own publications. For many years he was also chairman of the "Hamburg Association for Family History, Seal and Heraldry", founded in 1909. Lutteroth therefore also collected family portraits and coats of arms.

The Lutteroth family burial site is located at grid square S 25 (at the start of Talstrasse ) in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery : the pillow stone for Ascan Wilh is on the left in the area in front of the central granite rock . Lutteroth .

Works

• Directory of printed sources on the history of Hamburg families . Hamburg 1921, joint work with Percy E. Schramm .
• The Hamburg Herrenhaus zu Wohldorf , Hamburg, self-published / Hamburger Gaswerke, 1925.
• Eight Hamburg family stories .
• Hamburg gender book . Volumes 1–8, from the series “German Gender Book”, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn).
• Hamburg gender book . Volume 9, in the series “German Gender Book”, Volume 127 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1961.

literature

• Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members, Tübingen 1931, p. 178f. (No. 524)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ascan Lutteroth in the catalog of the German National Library