Gustav Dittmar

Gustav Georg August Dittmar (born March 8, 1836 in Lampertheim , † August 5, 1919 in Darmstadt ) was a German forester and politician .

Life

Dittmar was the son of the parish vicar Carl Friedrich Dittmar and his wife Katharina Louise nee Braumann. He studied forest science in Giessen . During his studies in 1854 he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity . After completing his studies, he became chief forester in Livonia , Karkus Castle . In 1866 he married Emilie, born Schiele, in Frankfurt am Main . In 1866 he became forestry accessist in Lampertheim, in 1869 head forester in Butzbach and in 1884 forester in Romrod . In 1897 he became chief forestry officer in the Darmstadt Ministry of Finance , forest and camera administration department. In 1898 he was promoted to the Secret Forestry Council and was then lecturer in the Ministry of Finance until 1903 .

From 1876 to 1884 he was a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Butzbach constituency, for the Hessian Progressive Party .

He was the older brother of Emil Dittmar .

Honors

• 1892: Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous , Knight's Cross 1st class
• 1903: Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous, Commander's Cross 2nd class

literature

• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 88.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , p. 243.

Web links

• Dittmar, Gustav Georg August. Hessian biography. (As of August 5, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).