Carl Lorenz Sachau

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Carl Lorenz Theodor Johannes Sachau (* December 12, 1823 in Glückstadt ; † August 15, 1882 in Kiel ) was land war commissioner , auditor , court clerk and governor of Ratzeburg . He founded the Patriotic Archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg .

Life

Sachau's maternal family can be traced back to the beginning of the 17th century in the Glückstadt area. His father's ancestors came from the Nortorf parish . His father was Colonel Hans-Joachim von Sachau, who died after the Battle of Kolding in 1849. His son and adjutant, Captain Sachau and brother of Carl Lorenz, died in the Battle of Kolding when he was only 22 years old. His mother is Charlotte von Wasmer (Wasmer-Palais in Glückstadt), a daughter of Henriette von Borby from the von Brockdorff house. A descendant is a Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr a. D.

At the age of 25, Sachau came to Lauenburg and was appointed Land War Commissioner there. He was in the Danish service and had a kind of technical oversight over judicial matters, as far as the army was concerned, and was thus a royal official.

In 1852 he married Marie Anna Helene Schmidt from Kiel, daughter of the citizen and businessman Christian Jürgen Schmidt. The Sachau couple had seven children over the years, two of whom died in infancy.

After the end of the bourgeois revolution of 1848 , Sachau became a battalion auditor, again a technical assistant in court martial matters, and after the death of the judicial councilor Sponagel in 1856, he took over the “Justitiariat der Areligen Güter Niendorf / St. , Niendorf / Schaalsee , Kulpin , Rondeshagen , Bliestorf , Grinau , Kastorf and Tüschenbek ”. This means that he exercised patrimonial jurisdiction over the property on behalf of the respective landlord .

Ten years later, in 1866, Sachau became city governor of Ratzeburg.

Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg

During his time as Land War Commissar, he must have had the idea of ​​publishing a magazine for this duchy that deals with its history. This is the time when Adolf von Duve was working on his “State History” and Linsen was planning to publish a statistical handbook. This shows that there were people who wanted to spread knowledge about the country. That was definitely in line with the trend of the time, because historical magazines also tried to establish themselves nationally at the time.

In the foreword to the first volume of the Fatherland Archives for the Duchy of Lauenburg (VAL), which appeared in 1857, Sachau gives a brief, very general analysis of the current situation in the Duchy. Based on a belief in progress that can be described as enlightened conservatism, he accused the administration of "that in some points it held too rigidly to what was once existing" and thus prevented further development. So Sachau comes to the conclusion that a “standstill for many years” can be observed in Lauenburg. Almost ten years later , Bismarck spoke in a very similar way of the miniature picture of the Middle Ages, which Lauenburg would still correspond to at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century. But at the same time Sachau did not want to touch or suggest anything with the articles in the new magazine, "which is in contradiction with the deepest essence of Lauenburg's peculiarity".

In the third volume, the then director of the Lauenburg School of Academics, C. LE Zander , who with the foundation of his private library laid an essential cornerstone of the school's extensive library, deals with the French period in Lauenburg, which was taken up several times after him. With this contribution the modern age was reached, and in fact the volume was published in 1863, that is exactly 50 years after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , but this event was not celebrated in the same way as it was in 1913 under the sign of excessive nationalism .

In the closing remarks of the first volume, Sachau called for collaboration on the magazine: “May the men who are familiar with the conditions of the country, the number of whom is no small, let the archive not fail to give their active support so that it, raised through joint activity, can also achieve public utility which the activity of a few is unable to lend him, and which nevertheless brought this company into being as an essential purpose. "

evaluation

“In 1857, a non-Lauenburg resident started an undertaking to publish a history magazine for this small, independent Duchy of Lauenburg. Due to his professional activity, he was somewhat familiar with the regional conditions, at least so much that he considered it worthwhile to publish the history of this country in a specially published magazine. He also found authors who dealt with different time periods. As a rule, these contributions are well-founded, even if they do not meet today's scientific standards.
Apparently financial difficulties forced the publisher to discontinue the publication of the magazine in 1863. The subscribers were not always reliable payers. The VAL would even be two years older than the 'big' historical magazine , which, founded by Sybel , appeared for the first time in 1859. Unfortunately, the regional political elite contributed to the end by rejecting an overall low level of financial support. This means that a chance was wasted to establish a tradition that we are sure to look back on on some occasions today. "

Works

  • Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg .

literature

  • Hansjörg Zimmermann: The beginnings of the Lauenburg history magazine. The "Sachausche Archive" , in: Detlev Kraack , Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (Eds.): Building bridges from the past. Festschrift for Peter Wulf on his 70th birthday (Studies on the Economic and Social History of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 44) , Neumünster: Wachholtz 2008, pp. 119–128.
  • Hansjörg Zimmermann: Article Sachau, Carl Lorenz Johannes , in: Eckardt Opitz on behalf of the Herzogtum Lauenburg Foundation (ed.): Biografisches Lexikon Herzogtum Lauenburg , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-778-1 , p. 335.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book St. Petri from 1852
  2. ^ Christian Wulf Wilhelm (* October 31, 1853), Carl Friedrich Siegfried Johannes (* October 12, 1854), Marie Mathilde Johanna (* November 2, 1856; † September 3, 1857), Anna Sophie Auguste (* November 18, 1858 ), Hans Georg Ludwig Hermann (* September 8, 1861), Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Emil (* August 14, 1864) and Carl Lorenz Theodor Johann (* / † August 14, 1865). Information: Ratzeburg City Archives.
  3. ↑ https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/KFGIJKH3NIS3RLDEOKKNOZNAOZB4MKED
  4. ↑ http://bliestorf.de/geschichte/13.html
  5. ↑ http://www.kastorfer-geschichte.de/38.html
  6. ^ Official weekly newspaper of August 27, October 8 and October 25, 1856
  7. ↑ The Lauenburgische Zeitung reported on June 9, 1866 that Sachau became royal city commissioner in place of Mr. Adler (see also StARZ, no. 1604). According to the Royal Order of August 11, 1866, the name of the post of "City Commissioner" was changed to "City Governor".
  8. ↑ http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10483423_00005.html
  9. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Vaterländisches_Archiv_für_das_Herzogthum_Lauenburg
  10. ^ Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg [VAL], vol. 1, Ratzeburg 1857, p. 8.
  11. ^ Eckart Opitz: The Duchy of Lauenburg in the Kingdom of Prussia: 1865-1918 , in: Duchy of Lauenburg. The country and its history. A manual ; ed. by E. Opitz, Neumünster 2003, p. 338.
  12. ^ VAL, Vol. 1 (1857), p. 11.
  13. ^ VAL, Vol. 1 (1857), p. 454.
  14. ↑ Zimmermann: The Beginnings ... , p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Sachau, Carl Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachau, Carl Lorenz Johannes Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer in the Danish service, city governor, local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1882
Place of death Kiel