Friedrich Droß

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Friedrich Wilhelm Droß , also Dross (born September 6, 1886 in Berlin ; † April 11, 1972 in Payrac / France ) was a German lawyer, government director, editor and writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Friedrich Dross received his academic training, a law degree, from 1905 in Berlin, Strasbourg, Königsberg and again in Berlin. In 1911 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock. jur. with the dissertation: "The right to reimbursement of the Prussian poor associations against the supporters" . He then also worked as a lawyer in the German capital. During this time, he and his future wife Liselotte , geb. Schulze (1887–1996), a drawing teacher and painter, bought the property at Koppelweg 2 in Ahrenshoop , on which “Haus Dross” was built as a holiday home in 1914.

In 1921 he became head of the tax office in Ribnitz . In addition to his professional work here, he also worked as a writer, he published several local history articles about Ribnitz and the Fischland in the Mecklenburg monthly magazines . From 1926 he held the position of a government councilor in Güstrow as head of the local tax office. In Güstrow a friendship developed with Ernst Barlach , whom he stood by during the difficult time when he was suspected of being a Jew.

This friendship led to a punitive transfer after 1934, Dross was appointed senior government councilor in Kiel and in 1939 he was appointed to the Bremen tax office . As a member of the Bremen Goethe Society , he made the acquaintance of the pedagogue August Kippenberg and his brother, the publisher Anton Kippenberg and the writer Karl Lerbs , and later he took over the chairmanship of the society in the Hanseatic city.

After Ernst Barlach's death in 1938 he was one of the estate administrators. Dross was - now already a councilor a. D. residing in Verden - in August 1946 co-founder of the Ernst Barlach Society in Hamburg . In the 1950s he became a knowledgeable editor of Barlach's poetic work.

After Friedrich Dross' retirement, the couple moved to the south of France, where they had a house built near their daughter in Payrac . Friedrich Dross died in 1972 at the age of 85, his wife was 108 years old.

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • Barrel riding. A Fischland folk festival , 1927
  • Walk through Guestrow , 1928
  • Quite a few data from the history of the Ribbenitz monastery, as it should be known for men , 1928
  • By Mecklenburg shipmen , 1931
  • Something about Goethe's Mecklenburg relations , 1932
  • Ernst Barlach, from Lower Saxony, on his birthday , 1934
  • Paul Pogge, a Mecklenburg African explorer , 1938 (three episodes)

editor

  • Ernst Barlach: The Letters 1888–1938. In two volumes. Piper, Munich 1968/69
  • Ernst Barlach: The three first literary publications. Ernst Barlach Society, Hamburg 1965
  • Ernst Barlach: Das Dichterische Werk - Volume 3 - The Prose II. (With an afterword by Walter Muschg ), Piper, Munich 1959
  • Ernst Barlach: The poetic work - Volume 2 - The prose I. (Collaborator. Friedrich Schult ). Piper, Munich 1958
  • Ernst Barlach: The poetic work - Volume 1 - The dramas. Piper, Munich 1956
  • Ernst Barlach: life and work in his letters. Piper, Munich 1952
  • Ernst Barlach: The stolen moon. (After Ernst Barlach's left handwriting). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 1948. DNB 450232883 (online)
  • Ernst Barlach: hand drawings, woodcuts, lithographs, sculptures, manuscripts, letters. Exhibition in the Augustinermuseum Freiburg, June / July 1955 (introduction by Friedrich Dross), Hans Thoma Gesellschaft, Freiburg 1955.

literature

  • Friedrich Schulz : Dross, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 48.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2269 .
  • Barlachs transferred to a punishment: to death Dr. Friedrich Droß '. In: Our Mecklenburg: Heimatblatt for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . No. 372, p. 19, Hamburg 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Works and the web links to the LBMV
  2. ↑ Cenotaphs in Malchin and Magdeburg. (No longer available online.) Wege-zu-barlach.de, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Dross: Ernst Barlach, the Lower Saxony, on the birthday. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Volume 10. Schwerin 1934, pp. 20–26 (digitized version: PDF 2.2MB)
  4. ↑ Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Ernst Barlach - The catalogs of works. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 454 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ The time: cultural news. Zeit - Online, August 29, 1946, accessed April 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Droß, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dross, Friedrich; Dross, Friedrich Wilhelm; Dross, FW; Efde (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, government director, editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1972
Place of death Payrac , France