Carl Pfingsthorn

Carl Ferdinand Stresow Pfingsthorn (born May 19, 1860 in Hamburg ; † January 21, 1939 there ) was a German lawyer and genealogist .

Pfingsthorn came from a Hanseatic merchant family . He attended the Johanneum School of Academics , but was unable to fully realize his potential in professional life due to an early onset of otosclerosis .

Pfingsthorn was committed to the living conditions of the working-class and lower civil servant families in the Hanseatic city around the turn of the century, and criticized their poor housing situation and inadequate sanitary facilities.

Works

The housing conditions of Hamburg sub-civil servants in 1897 , Graefe & Sillem, Hamburg 1900.
The proportions of small apartments in old Hamburg , Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1901.
Rent and income of the persons supported by the Association of Hamburg Rent Aid Associations Publications of the Hamburg Society for the Promotion of the Arts and Useful Trades ( Patriotic Society ), Hamburg 1902.
The ancestral list of Dr. Carl Pfingsthorn , Journal for Low German Family Studies 1928.

Web links

A life in dirt and misery by Uwe Bahnsen , in: Welt am Sonntag on December 13, 2009

Literature by and about Carl Pfingsthorn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Rath: Schiffszwieback, salted meat and bunk : Seemannsleben an Bord, Hamburg 2004; Michael Grüttner : The world of work at the water's edge . Social history of the Hamburg port workers, Göttingen 1984, p. 111; Michael Grüttner: Workers' Culture versus Workers' Movement Culture, in: Studies on Workers' Culture , ed. by Albrecht Lehmann, Münster 1984, p. 259.

personal data
SURNAME	Pfingsthorn, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pfingsthorn, Carl Ferdinand Stresow (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1939
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Jürgen Rath: Schiffszwieback, salted meat and bunk : Seemannsleben an Bord, Hamburg 2004; Michael Grüttner : The world of work at the water's edge . Social history of the Hamburg port workers, Göttingen 1984, p. 111; Michael Grüttner: Workers' Culture versus Workers' Movement Culture, in: Studies on Workers' Culture , ed. by Albrecht Lehmann, Münster 1984, p. 259.