Georg Wilhelm Dittmer

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Georg Wilhelm Dittmer (* 1795 in Lübeck ; † 1880 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer and regional historian.

Life

Dittmer was the son of the businessman Hermann Carl Dittmer. Hermann Carl Dittmer was his older brother. Georg Wilhelm visited the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1816 , then studied law in Göttingen, where it is documented by an entry in the studbook of his fellow student Samuel Friedrich Schumann in 1817 , and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD.

Back in Lübeck around 1823 he was appointed monastery bailiff of the St. Johannis monastery , which had been under city control since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . For the first time he arranged the documents and records of the monastery and created volumes of directories. In numerous publications he presented the history of the monastery and its possessions in Holstein and Mecklenburg . He also dealt with genealogical questions, especially families from Lübeck.

From 1844 he was a legal clerk in the city administration and from 1857 to 1866, as successor to Hermann Schröder, he was responsible for keeping the official genealogical register .

He was a corresponding member of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg History , the Society for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and the Society for Hamburg History .

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Wilhelm Dittmer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 58
  2. ↑ Göttingen City Archives: Stabu No. 275, p. 32r-v
  3. ^ Genealogical register (PDF; 54 kB), archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
personal data
SURNAME Dittmer, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1880
Place of death Lübeck