Friedrich Dott

Friedrich Dott (born February 24, 1889 in Gudensberg ; † January 28, 1969 there ) was a banker and local historian who became known for numerous works on the history of his north Hessian hometown.

Life

Dott's parents were the businessman Julius Dott and his wife Ottilie, b. Grießel (1891-1989). He attended the local elementary school from 1895 to 1899 and then switched to the higher private school, the so-called Latin school , on Grabenweg until 1902 . From 1902 to 1906 he completed his education at the Realschule in Nieder-Wildungen . This was followed by an apprenticeship in banking at the L. Pfeiffer bank in Kassel , which he completed in 1909. From 1909 he worked as a banker in this company, which in 1914 appointed him head of its depository (branch) in Bad Wildungen . He moved there and married Elise in 1917, daughter of the writer Heinrich Bandlow from Greifswald . In 1921 he became an authorized signatory at Pfeiffer's bank and moved back to Kassel. From 1922 to 1924 he headed the branch of the bank in Wilhelmshöhe and from 1929 to 1932 the Kunden-Kredit GmbH in Kassel, which he had to liquidate in 1932 due to the global economic crisis .

He then moved with his family in 1932 - the couple's only child, their son Reinhard, was born in 1925 - back to Gudensberg, where he found a job as an accountant in a company in which his brother-in-law was a co-owner. In 1943 he was forced to work as an administrative clerk with the Luftwaffe and served until the end of the war at the Luftwaffe-Haupt-Munitionsanstalt 1 / XI in Hambühren , where forced laborers and prisoners of the subcamp Hambühren worked. In September 1945 he returned to Gudensberg, where he was appointed to the board of directors of the local Volksbank in 1946 . Dott retired in 1958.

In his free time, Dott dealt intensively with the history of his hometown and its immediate and wider surroundings and wrote more than 130 essays, the majority of which were published in regional and national newspapers and specialist magazines. He also made a name for himself as a local poet. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, he donated a collection of his work to the city of Gudensberg, and in 1986 the book Gudensberg, edited by him and his son, was published . History and stories from a small town in North Hesse , with about a third of his work. As Jürgen Preuß wrote in his contribution to the 125th anniversary of the Gudensberger Heimatfreunde Association, Friedrich Dott's life as a writer, along with the Gudensberg story published by Hugo Brunner in 1922, represents the most extensive collection of popular historical knowledge about his hometown.

Dott died on January 28, 1969 and was buried three days later in the Gudensberg cemetery. 40 years later, on October 22nd, 2009, the city honored him with the unveiling of a bronze plaque that was reminiscent of him and was donated by the Association of Gudensberger Heimatfreunde in Untergasse, at the corner of Kleine Rosenstrasse, at the place that has long been known as "Dotts Winkel" becomes.

literature

• Jürgen Preuß: Friedrich Dott Life, work and work: Board member; Local writer and local poet; Homeland friend. On the 120th birthday and 40th anniversary of death (= a contribution to the 125th anniversary of the Association of Gudensberger Heimatfreunde. ) Verein der Gudensberger Heimatfreunde e. V., Gudensberg, 2009 ( uni-kassel.de ).
• Friedrich Dott: Gudensberg. History and stories from a small town in North Hesse. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 1986, ISBN 3-925277-04-8 .

Footnotes

1. ^ Hugo Brunner: Gudensberg, Castle and City and the County of Maden. Edmund Pillardy, Kassel 1922.
2. ^ Angle for the poet. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . October 23, 2009 ( hna.de ).