Ernst Ditton

Ernst Ditton (born August 18, 1912 in Nussloch , † December 2, 1977 in Mosbach ) was a German civil servant. He was the last district administrator in the Mosbach district .

Life

Ditton was the son of a textile merchant and attended high school in Sasbach from 1924 to 1932 . He then studied economics, journalism and law in Würzburg , Munich and Heidelberg . After the first state examination in July 1936, he became a trainee lawyer at the district court in Durlach . In 1940 he graduated as Dr. jur. and held an auxiliary position at the Karlsruhe public prosecutor's office, where he was offered a permanent position, which he did not get because of his draft for military service in December 1940. During the Second World War he took part as a trainer at the Army News School in Leipzig and as a radio operator at theaters of war on the Eastern Front.

After returning home from Soviet captivity, he took up a position at the District Office in Mosbach on January 17, 1949. In February 1950 he was transferred to the Sinsheim district office as a government assessor. In 1951 he was promoted to the government council, 1952 civil servant for life. In the district election in 1954, Ditton stood as the youngest of four applicants against his superior Erwin Dörzbacher . As CDU district chairman, Dörzbacher had already suffered heavy losses in favor of the Independent Voters' Association in the district elections of 1953. The changed seating arrangements in the district council let Ditton emerge as the winner of the district council election.

Immediately after taking office, Ditton created a department for economic development, which achieved important improvements in traffic routes and the educational offer and tackled the modern expansion of the infrastructure in the rural communities of the district. Ditton was also very committed to the settlement of industries and housing in the then economically weak district of Mosbach. During his tenure, 3,000 new jobs and 8,000 new apartments were created. As district administrator, Ditton was also heavily involved in the construction of various important facilities in the Mosbach district, including the commercial college (1955), the district retirement home in Hüffenhardt (1959), the district hospital in Mosbach (1960), the expansion of the district trade school (1971) and the expansion of the district hospital (1973).

As a district administrator, Ditton was chairman of the district board of trustees of the Volksbildungswerk and the district association of the Red Cross as well as deputy chairman of the Odenwald planning community and the German association for public and private provision.

The last years of Ditton's term of office were marked by the preparations for the district reform in 1973, which united the district of Mosbach with the district of Buchen to form the Odenwald district . Ditton retired on Unification Day on January 1, 1973 for health reasons. The former Buchen district administrator Hugo Geisert became district administrator of the newly formed district.

Ditton moved to Karlsruhe after the end of his service. After a long and serious illness, he died in the district hospital in Mosbach.

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 220 .
• Manfred Leithein: Dr. Ernst Ditton - the last district administrator in the Mosbach district . In: Unser Land , Heidelberg 1997, pp. 189–194.