Hans Küstermann
Hans Hermann Küstermann (born October 27, 1873 in Lübeck , † April 11, 1915 in Vilcey-sur-Trey, Canton Thiaucourt-Regniéville ) was a German lawyer and notary . A listed monument commemorates him .
Life
origin
Hans Küstermann was a son of Friedrich Hermann Küstermann (* October 8, 1840 in Schötmar , Principality of Lippe ; † October 5, 1916 in Lübeck), a high school professor at the Katharineum in Lübeck and his wife Maria, née. Koll (born March 27, 1847 - † January 27, 1931 in Lübeck). He had a sister, Emma Ott (born February 14, 1876 in Lübeck; † January 2, 1931 ibid), and two brothers, Willy (born August 17, 1884 in Lübeck; † November 4, 1903 ibid) and Friedrich Hermann (* July 2, 1878 - October 18, 1945).
career
He attended the Katharineum until he graduated from high school in Easter 1892 and studied law at the University of Jena . Here he became active in the Corps Guestphalia in 1893 . One of his most impressive memories of those years was Otto von Bismarck's speech to the students on the Jena market square .
In July 1896, Küstermann passed his legal traineeship in Berlin and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. Before the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg he passed his assessor exam on January 29, 1900 . Upon his application to the legal profession at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, as well as the Lübeck District and Regional Court , he received his approval from the Senate on February 10, 1900 and settled in Lübeck. As a lawyer and notary he belonged to the renowned law firm E. Fehling , Dr. Küstermann and Dr. Cuwie on. In the field of commercial law , primarily the law of the sea , he had the reputation of an expert in business circles and his colleagues . But when it came to a scientifically well-thought-out, thorough work, he was also turned to in other areas of law . His legal literary knowledge was of great benefit to the legal reading association founded in 1837 , on whose board he was active. His work in the employers' association gave his interest in commercial questions and his in-depth study of the economic life of the maritime trade and emerging industrial city as a lawyer rich stimulus.
As a member of the "Association of Friends of Art in Lübeck" under the umbrella of the Society for the Promotion of Non-Profit Activities , of which he had been a member since 1895, Küstermann also took part in the decision on the promotion of artists or the acquisition of works of art.
In 1910, the citizens ' committee elected Küstermann as the civil deputy to the high school authority. There he was in the department for higher education.
He was active in many areas of public life . In 1909 he toured the United States of America . He visited New York , Niagara Falls , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Chicago , Washington , Milwaukee , Yellowstone Park , Seattle , Vancouver , San Francisco , the Yosemite Valley , Los Angeles , Salt Lake City , Denver , and Cornell University in Ithaca . In Chicago he visited many large factories.
Küstermann remained an enthusiastic reserve officer . With joy he traveled again and again to Jena to his regiment, the infantry regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94 . Its third battalion had its garrison in Jena .
At the beginning of the First World War he went into the field as captain of the reserve and head of a company of the 1st battalion from Weimar and fought between the Moselle and Maas in the Priesterwald. This was one of the most disastrous periods in trench warfare . In March 1915, he was decorated with the Iron Cross and war medals of his Thuringian contingent Lord , home leave . Three weeks later he was killed in an assault in the priest forest not far from the Croix des Carmes . According to a French list of deaths, his body was recovered by the French the following August . In the 1920s he was reburied in the German military cemetery in Thiaucourt-Regniéville .
cenotaph
Cemetery of honor
To commemorate the fallen, his widow donated a sculpture made from shell limestone by her brother Fritz Behn . The figure of the naked “dying warrior ”, who wears the steel helmet on his head, which was used in the World War and is reminiscent of medieval motifs , is modeled horizontally and stylistically on ancient Greek gable figures. The lines that intersect in the picture, despite all its monumental calm, all descend towards the earth. The warrior who grabs his heart with his left hand is mortally wounded and holds the broken sword in his right hand. The broad upper body is turned to the side and supports the stretched composition of the fully plastic figure. The picture is in the center of the first circle of the cemetery of honor .
On the front of the base there is an elegiac distich by the Lübeck writer Otto Anthes :
everyone who fell like him, painful thanks once.
The inscription on the back reminds of the occasion of the installation:
Dr. jur. Hans Küstermann
fallen in the priest forest 1915.
Krempelsdorf
After the First World War , Krempelsdorf donated a memorial for the fallen in his community in the form of a hewn boulder on a natural stone base . On the front of the boulder is a trapezoidal memorial plaque crowned by a steel helmet with oak leaves in relief .
The design came from Friedrich Wilhelm Virck and was made by the Zachow brothers .
The plate says:
, followed in twelve lines by the names of the 24 fallen
parishes of Krempelsdorf
At the end of the Fackenburger Allee , which came from Lübeck at the time , Christian von Brokes, who lived in the manor house, planted a 4-row avenue of lime trees in 1788 . At the end of the avenue, which is now only partially preserved, the center of the avenue was chosen as the location for the war memorial.
family
Küstermann was married to Gertrud (born October 27, 1879 in Lübeck, † April 27, 1943 ibid), b. Fehling . The couple lived in the Krempelsdorf manor house .
The marriage resulted in a daughter, Ursula (born August 21, 1905 in Lübeck, † January 6, 1997 in Schopfheim ). She married on July 18, 1924 in Lübeck Joachim Hans Ludwig Ritter (born April 23, 1998 in Naumburg an der Saale ; † February 15, 1986 in Lübeck).
His widow continued to live in the house after his death and was accepted after his death at the meeting of June 27, 1916, together with five other women, as an extraordinary member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . In 1927, Gertrude Küstermann was elected as the first female director.
Web links
- Hans Küstermann in the Find a Grave database (English)
literature
- Memorial plaque. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1915/16, No. 20, edition of April 9, 1916, p. 118.
- Dr. jur. Hans Hermann Küstermann. In: Lübeckische Blätter . Volume 58, number 12, edition of March 19, 1916, pp. 164–166.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Dr. Friedrich Hermann Küstermann †. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1916/17, No. 4, issue of October 23, 1916.
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. ( digitized version ), no. 969
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 70 , 307.
- ↑ Local. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Vol. 52, number 8, edition of February 18, 1900, p. 113.
- ↑ Wilhelm Cuwie (GND = 126247064) was the son of the member of the Lübeck citizenship Wilhelm Christian Cuwie (* 1846; † 1931)
- ↑ 107th Annual Report of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in 1895 (presented on November 4, 1896). In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 38, number 57, edition of November 8, 1896, p. 459.
- ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 63, number 4, edition of January 22, 1911, p. 55.
- ↑ Block 10, grave 194, information from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge dated September 2, 2016.
- ↑ Lübeck grave monuments by Fritz Behn. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Vol. 1920, No. 24, edition of August 29, 1920, p. 93.
- ^ Klaus Bernhard: Plastic in Lübeck - Documentation of Art in Public Space (1436–1985). In: Publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Office for Culture. Series B, Issue 8, Lübeck 1986, ISBN 3-924214-31-X , p. 14.
- ↑ The Krempelsdorf community's war memorial. In: From Lübeck's towers . No. 5, Volume 32, edition of February 25, 1922, p. 20.
- ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 58, number 27, edition of July 2, 1916, pp. 380–381.
- ↑ And the women? (PDF) - Dinner speech by the director Antje Peters-Hirt at the 221st Foundation Festival of the NON-BENEFITS on October 29, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Küstermann, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Küstermann, Hans Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1915 |
| Place of death | Vilcey-sur-Trey, France |