Gustav Hermann Schulze

Gustav Hermann Schulze (born August 12, 1833 in Steinigtwolmsdorf ; † February 15, 1901 in Neusalza ) was a Saxon lawyer, later a legal advisor, historian and local researcher in Upper Lusatia .

Live and act

Gustav Hermann Schulze was born during the pre- March period in Germany, which was fragmented by small states, in the small community of Steinigtwolmsdorf south of Bautzen in what was then the royal Saxon Upper Lusatia.

Raised in a middle-class family, he received a higher education, which apparently took place in the Bautzen grammar school and which also included Latin lessons . After graduating, he decided to study jurisprudence , the legal science.

Lawyer and regional historian

Subsequently, the further professional development after 1855 led to the then royal district court of the city of Neusalza under court director Carl Ernst Müller. He initially worked as a trainee lawyer , later as a lawyer . For his services he was subsequently awarded the honorary title of “ Councilor of Justice ”. Gustav Hermann Schulze was very down to earth. He did not pursue any career plans at regional or even national level, but remained connected to the city of Neusalza until his death. His position at the district court enabled him to develop musically in the later years. Justizrat Schulze discovered his talent as a historian and archivist to further research the history of his homeland Oberlausitz. His command of Latin was very useful to him. In the period between 1862 and 1875 he published a number of writings that have not lost their value for the history of Neusalza-Spremberg and Upper Lusatia to this day. His investigations into the controversial issue of the so-called Upper Lusatian border document of 1241 and the translation of its Latin texts into German, especially on Burgward Dolgowitz, should be emphasized. Schulze thus became a pioneer for the fundamental research of Alfred Meiche and Richard Jecht .

Co-initiator of the Süd-Lausitzer Bahn

As a legal personality he earned special services in the “Committee for the Construction of a Railway for Southern Upper Lusatia ” chaired by Neusalza Mayor August Adolph Tuchatsch , who held the office from 1857 to 1885. This committee, in which he was secretary, ensured that the municipalities of Neusalza and Spremberg were transferred to the Sohland / Spree - Ebersbach / Sa. were connected and received a common train station, which already bore the name "Neusalza-Spremberg". Schulze's scattered publications were published by his son Herman Kurt Schulze sixteen years after the death of his father in an anthology in 1917 in Ebersbach / Sa. out. The lawyer and historian Gustav Hermann Schulze found his final resting place in the municipal cemetery Neusalza on the Lindenberg . His tombstone is no longer there today. The building of the former district court - Schulze's place of work - existed until 1952, then housed a vocational school until 1992 and has been the seat of the administrative community of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with Friedersdorf (Spree) , Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach since 1993 .

Publications (selection)

• On the South Lusatian Railway Question (1862–1875),
• From Neusalza's prehistory with Spremberg and explanations on the Upper Lusatian border document, in particular on the Burgward Dolgowitz (1873),
• The second secular celebration of Neusalza (1873),
• The Valtenberg near Neukirch (1874, 1883),
• Steinigtwolmsdorf (1875),
• Necrologist for Carl Ernst Müller, court director in Neusalza (1876) and August Adolph Tuchatsch, mayor in Neusalza (1890),
• The Kottmar (1881).
• Memorandum of the Neusalza City Council regarding the removal of part of the property on sheet 218 in Spremberg and its subdivision to Neusalza (1888)
• The casino in Neusalza is a true chronicle, commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the same (1884)

literature

• Gunther Leupolt : The history of the station of Neusalza-Spremberg . In: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg's past and present, Volume 3, Neusalza-Spremberg: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde e. V., 2007, pp. 95-103.
• Lutz Mohr : The Upper Lusatian border document from 1241 from the point of view of the Neusalza lawyer and local researcher Gustav Hermann Schulze (1833–1901) and older and modern research . In: Günter Hensel (edit.): History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg's past and present, Volume 4, Neusalza-Spremberg: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde e. V. and Local History Interest Group (IGO) 2011. pp. 29–50.
• Lutz Mohr: Historical personalities of the local history: Gustav Hermann Schulze (1833-1901) . In: Official journal of the administrative association for the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with the district Friedersdorf and the communities Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach. 17/2012/11, p. 7
• Hermann Kurt Schulze (ed.): From Neusalza's past and the second secular celebration by Gustav Hermann Schulze in Neusalza. Ebersbach: RO Gnauck 1917.