Eugene Deditius

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Eugen Paul Theodor Deditius (born December 31, 1860 in Kronstadt , Silesia , † January 21, 1921 in Lübeck ) was a German fire director and building officer of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

career

After Deditius attended the Realgymnasium am Zwinger in Breslau , he studied construction at the Technical University in Berlin from 1880 to 1884 and worked under the city planning officer Hermann Blankenstein on new buildings for the Dalldorf insane asylum and later on the high-rise buildings of the Packhof complex at Lehrter Bahnhof . He passed his construction manager examination in 1885. In the same year he did his military duty as a one-year volunteer with the Railway Regiment No. 1 in Berlin and was then a reserve officer . Most recently he held the rank of captain , still with the same regiment . He passed the government master builder examination in 1889.

In 1890 Deditius worked in Oels . There he built, among other things, the district court building .

On April 1, 1895, Deditius was the chief officer of the building police . On July 1st, he went to the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck as construction police director and fire director to reorganize the fire extinguishing system there and the construction police . With this he had found his life's work and, as Johannes Baltzer would later express in his obituary, had worked on his part for the development of Lübeck like no other. In 1909 he received the title of building officer .

Site plan: ground floor
The fire station along with the riser tower and gym.
Main fire station

When he started work, the fire brigade was still a volunteer and its team was made up of street cleaners and private tradesmen. A professional fire brigade should be created from these . After he did a short training period under the fire director Westphalen in Hamburg in a field that was previously unknown to him, he promoted the preparations for a professional fire brigade until it came into being on July 1, 1898. Now he was constantly working on their training.

The institutions could always compete with those of the largest German cities, and in the circles of his peers, from whose guild Deditius had not emerged directly, his voice always had a decisive importance. In 1901 the St. Lorenz-Wache was built with the most modern facilities at the time, in 1906 the main fire station was put into operation and at the same time a telegraph center was set up for fire reporting . The facilities proved themselves, for example, in the major arson- based fires of the timber stores of the timber wholesaler W. Brüggmann or the Karstadt building in 1913, or the fire of the Schabbelhaus , in which he saved the valuable interior at night. Experience at the fire sites was immediately used by him in his fire protection regulations and building regulations .

As a construction police officer, it was always Deditius' goal to promote the structural and urban development of Lübeck. The "Building Code of 1903," she was in heavy fighting with the representation of the people prevailed, was his first work. To rebuild the theater one example, was new theater Commission formed. Were from the Commission Senate Senators Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp and Julius proliferating and from the citizens' committee John Daniel Benda , August Sartori (educator) , Blunck, Heinrich Goertz , HW Behn, HL Ms Stender and Hermann Otte selected. Meyer, Ernst Wittern and Buchwald became substitutes . In addition, building director Johannes Baltzer and building officer Deditius were on the commission.

The new building laws of 1919, the preparatory work of which went back to 1906, were a major part of the later work. Their land reform principles were probably the reason that they were approved faster than expected under the influence of the “new era”. In 1920 he celebrated his 25th service anniversary, already marked by the illness. He had not experienced its full impact, but was able to initiate the first preliminary work for it.

He was also given special recognition in his last days because the labor protection provision he had worked out was recommended by the Reich Ministry of Labor to all other German governments as an exemplary model.

Since March 1908, Debitius was an active member of the board of directors of St. Mary's Congregation . In addition, he was active in the synod and the presidency of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

After a long and severe suffering, Deditius fell asleep.

family

Eugen married Martha nee Klar.

References

literature

  • Building councilor Eugen Deditius †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1921, No. 10, edition of January 30, 1921.
  • Building councilor Eugen Deditius †. In: Von Lübeck's Towers , Volume 31, No. 4, Edition of February 12, 1921.
  • Building Councilor Deditius. by Johannes Baltzer, In: Lübeckische Blätter , year 1921, number 5, edition of January 30, 1921.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Deditius  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 48, No. 1, edition of January 7, 1906, p. 12.
  2. ↑ Kleine Nachrichten , In: Lübeckische Blätter, Volume 60, Number 1, edition of January 6, 1918.
  3. ^ German biography
  4. ↑ Otto Dziobek : History of the Lübeck Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162.
  5. ↑ Kleine Nachrichten , In: Lübeckische Blätter, Volume 60, Number 34, Edition of August 25, 1918.
personal data
SURNAME Deditius, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deditius, Eugen Paul Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Fire Director and Building Councilor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1921
Place of death Lübeck