Diedrich Schmidt

Diedrich Schmidt (born January 7, 1868 in Weserdeich near Berne ; † January 28, 1939 in Zetel ) was a German teacher , owner of a brick factory and member of the Oldenburg state parliament .

biography

Professional career

Schmidt was the son of the ship's captain Hermann Friedrich Schmidt and his wife Metta Henrike geb. Black. Due to the decline of commercial sailing and the death of several family members at sea, his mother urged him not to take up the seaman profession according to family tradition. After attending primary school, Schmidt therefore attended the Evangelical Teachers' College in Oldenburg and then taught at the schools in Apen , Tonndeich near Heppens and Alt-Heppens.

In 1904 Schmidt gave up his profession as a teacher and founded a clinker brick factory in Zetel together with his father-in-law Caspar Wilhelm Müller. In 1906 Schmidt took over another brick factory and thus expanded his company considerably. The establishment of the United Oldenburger Klinkerwerke GmbH in Bockhorn in 1908, when 14 brick factories of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg merged, was also helped by Schmidt. Schmidt continued to manage his brick factory until his death.

Further engagements

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Schmidt was also politically active. From 1908 to 1931 he was a member of the German Democratic Party , later the German State Party, without interruption in the Oldenburg state parliament . His political commitment was after the end of the First World War, the abolition of the forced economy and, in the Weimar period, the reorganization of administrative jurisdiction in the Free State of Oldenburg . For this purpose, Schmidt was from 1927 to 1934 as a non-lawyer elected by the state parliament and a member of the Oldenburg Higher Administrative Court .

family

Schmidt married on September 28, 1894 in Heppens Johanne Friederike Müller (1867–1939), the daughter of the farmer Caspar Wilhelm Müller and his wife Johanne Margarethe Catharine nee. Gerdes.

literature

• Peter Haupt: Schmidt, Diedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 642 f. ( online ).