Emil Dittmar

Emil Gerhard Dittmar (born July 9, 1842 in Lampertheim , † July 15, 1906 in Mainz ) was Minister of State of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Life

Emil Dittmar attended grammar school in Gießen, where he first studied forest sciences from 1860 and law from 1862 and was awarded a doctorate on November 28, 1864. jur. PhD. During his studies in 1860 he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity . After the state examination in 1867 he worked as a legal adviser at the Upper Hessian Railway Company .

From 1870 to 1888 he was court and regional court advocate in Gießen and from May 15, 1888 Ministerialrat in Darmstadt. In 1890 he became a member of the editorial commission of the BGB in Berlin and in 1895 commissioner of the Reich Chancellor at the Federal Council. In 1896 he moved to the Hessian Ministry of Justice and became a Privy Councilor. From 1898 he was the minister of justice before the ministry . The main field of activity was the elaboration of the Hessian implementation laws for the BGB and the other imperial codes issued at this time. With this work he ended the fragmentation of Hessian law.

family

Emil Dittmar was the son of the Lampertheim parish administrator Karl Dittmar and his wife Katharina nee Braumann (1809-1896). His brother was Gustav Dittmar . Emil Dittmar, who was of Protestant denomination, married Lina, born Fitting (* 1854) in Oppenheim am Rhein on February 19, 1873 , the daughter of the Grand Ducal Hessian High Court Councilor Hermann Fitting and his wife Karoline, born Schneider. The son Gustav Dittmar (1884-1939) later became the police director of Darmstadt.

literature

• Werner Schubert: The consultation of the civil code in a systematic compilation of the unpublished sources: introduction, biographies, materials. Materials on the history of the creation of the BGB, 1978, ISBN 3110074966 , page 97, online
• Klaus Schwabe (Hrsg.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 296.
• Dittmar, Emil. Hessian biography. (As of March 25, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 207-208.