Ernst Wittern

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Ludwig Ernst Friedrich Wittern (born February 4, 1867 in Westerau ; † October 21, 1950 in Lübeck ) was a lawyer and notary as well as a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

Ernst Wittern grew up in simple circumstances as the son of a farmer in the Lübeck city monastery village of Westerau. In 1889 he began studying law in Berlin . In 1893, he put his trainee exam at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg from, the same year he was from the Law Faculty of the University of Jena to Dr. jur. PhD. He spent part of his legal traineeship in Emil Ferdinand Fehling's office in Lübeck. In 1897 he joined the law firm of the later Senator Julius Vermehren in Lübeck as a partner .

Through his marriage to Olga Maria Maret on July 11, 1900, Max Linde , Lübeck's most important art collector and patron of the time, became his brother-in-law. Wittern had been a member of the Verein von Kunstfreunden , a subsidiary of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities, since 1894 .

1901 he succeeded in bankruptcy previous diaconal institutions Kropp his cousin John Paulsen save by comparison.

In 1902 he commissioned Henry van de Velde to furnish his study in Königstrasse 39. When moving to a larger office in 1908 at Königstrasse 57, van de Velde was also entrusted with the design of these rooms. The majority of the furniture has been preserved to this day, in contrast to the premises.

In 1904 Emil Possehl became Wittern's client. Wittern recommended van de Velde to Possehl to convert his Travemünder summer house and also tried to include him in the tender for the new building of the city ​​theater , which was then built according to the plans of Martin Dülfer , because Possehl and van de Velde differed because of the Possehl's changes to the summer house had quarreled.

Van de Velde also provided plans for the furnishings for the design of his private house, which Wittern had acquired in 1905 at Brehmerstrasse 16. However, only a small part of this was realized: two rooms that have not been preserved.

Wittern had been a member of the Lübeck citizenship since 1903. His political views seem to have drifted further and further into the national camp. From 1919 to 1921 he is listed as a member of the German National People's Party , from 1924 to 1926 as " Völk. " H. the German National Freedom Party .

The furnishings of Possehl's summer house on the Travemünder Strandpromenade and the van-de-Velde furniture from Wittern's estate are now in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg .

Fonts

  • A statement in the struggle of the parties: The whole of Germany through every party! Lecture by Wittern, available on Jan. 6, 1919. [Along with] preface by Ohnesorge . Lübeck: Schmidt 1919
  • Moses Salomon - Prof. Dr. Georg Rosenthal , director at the Katharineum in Lübeck. Lübeck: O. Wessel, 1922

literature

  • Dörte Folkers; Cay Folkers: Henry van de Velde's work for Ernst Wittern in Lübeck. Frankfurt am Main; Bern; New York: Lang 1983 (European University Writings: Series 28, Art History; Vol. 24) ISBN 3-8204-7647-4
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte , 2nd edition Lübeck 1989, p. 667 ff. ISBN 3-7950-3203-2

Remarks

  1. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 1030: (1855-1928); Senator 1904.
  2. ↑ Biography Johannes Paulsen, Part 3 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 13, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diakonie-kropp.de
  3. ↑ The house in the style of the North German homeland security was acquired in 1906 by the newspaper publisher Charles Coleman and was later used entirely by the Lübecker Nachrichten . (Klaus J. Groth: Listed Houses. , Lübeck 1999.)
  4. ^ In the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg
  5. ^ Graßmann, p. 668
  6. ↑ according to the BIOWEIL project ( memento of the original dated December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hsr-trans.zhsf.uni-koeln.de
  7. ^ Graßmann, p. 668: purchase of "Possehl" in the 1960s, purchase of "Wittern" 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Wittern, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittern, Ludwig Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck lawyer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerau
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1950
Place of death Lübeck