Hermann Carl Dittmer

Hermann Carl Dittmer (around 1860)

Hermann Carl Dittmer (born November 15, 1793 in Lübeck ; † February 21, 1865 there ) was councilor (from 1848 senator ) of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Dittmer was the son of the businessman Hermann Carl Dittmer and his wife Catharina Dorothea, nee. Harmsen (* 1766), a daughter of Pastor Johann Hermann Harmsen . After completing his school education, he started an apprenticeship at Johann Gebhard Götze's Lübeck trading house at Easter 1810 . At the end of 1812 Dittmer evaded the threat of being drafted into the French army by fleeing to Neustadt and later to Burg on Fehmarn . There he was able to succeed August Peter Rehder as an agent of the city of Lübeck on Fehmarn, which protected him from persecution for desertion.

A few months later his younger brother Georg Wilhelm also came to Burg. The law student had also evaded compulsory service in the Napoleonic army. Carl Dittmer gave up his position, which was anyway more suitable for a lawyer than a businessman, in favor of his brother and went to Copenhagen , where he hoped to find a job in a trading house. However, due to Denmark's state of war with most of the German states, his search was initially unsuccessful. Not until 1814 did he get a job with the Copenhagen-based merchant August Wilhelm Pauli from Lübeck .

In the spring of 1819 Dittmer went to Riga to take up a position at the banking house Carl Kyder & Co. , which went bankrupt the following year. Although he was able to switch to a proprietary business , he did not like the working atmosphere there. Dittmer therefore returned to Lübeck at Easter 1822.

He first entered his father's business, which, however, was economically stricken and could no longer be saved. Dittmer decided to found his own company. Together with Hermann Schumacher , he opened at Mühlenstrasse No. 831 a wholesale and retail material goods business with an associated commission and shipping business as well as a tobacco factory , acquired citizenship and joined the shopkeeper.

As early as 1824, Dittmer was appointed deputy of the shopkeeper to the Lübeck government and confirmed in his office for three consecutive years before he was elected senior man of the company in the summer of 1829 . In July 1832 the shopkeeper was entitled to appoint one of its relatives to be a member of the municipal finance department; the choice fell on Dittmer.

On January 1, 1833, Dittmer left his joint company with Schumacher and joined forces with Daniel Friedrich Heinrich Plath in a company for haberdashery wholesale with Finland . At the same time he joined the Skåne Driver College , but soon after switched to the Novgorod Driver and then returned to the Skåne Driver, as they wanted him to be chosen as one of the senior men there. On November 21, 1833 Dittmer was co-elector of the college.

Hermann Carl Dittmer enjoyed a high reputation in Lübeck, which was reflected in his frequent appointment to public offices:

• 1834 member of the Central Arms Deputation
• 1835 member of the finance department as representative of the Schonenfahrer
• 1837 member of the commission for the promotion of the railway construction as well as co-head of the St. Anne's poor and work house
• 1839 Chairman of the elderly man of the Schonenfahrer
• 1840 co-head of the spinning house in St. Anne's monastery
• 1841 co-head of Lübeck Cathedral

On November 10, 1841, Dittmer was elected to the council, where he took the place of the late councilor Heinrich Gustav Plitt . He was a member of the council and later the senate until his death, and in these twenty-four years he took on tasks in numerous municipal authorities and administrative organizations.

During the Crimean War , the Royal Navy blocked the ports of Finland, which belongs to Russia , from March 1854 , which almost brought trade for Dittmer's company to a standstill. When his wife died on Palm Sunday 1855, he decided to withdraw from business life and spent the last ten years of his life exclusively as a private citizen and senator.

family

Hermann Carl Dittmer had married Caroline Henriette Schünemann on September 2, 1824 , the daughter of a Lübeck tanner master . The marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters, two of whom died in childhood. Georg Wilhelm Dittmer, who holds a doctorate in law and is secretary to the law firm, was his brother.

Fonts

Dittmer was a connoisseur of the city's history and Lübeck's coinage:

• Alborgfahrer, or The trade relations between Lübeck and Alborg in the sixteenth century , Lübeck 1841
• History of the introduction of the youngest Lübeck coinage , Lübeck 1845
• Historical representation of the coin feet of the coarser silver coins that occurred in Lübeck and some still existed , 1st issue, 1845
• History of the first gold coinage in Lübeck in the 14th century , Lübeck 1855
• About Lübeck's participation in the Lüneburg salt works , Lübeck 1860

literature

• Lübeckische Blätter - Sunday paper of the Lübecker Zeitung . Issue No. 17, April 21, 1865
• Lübeckische Blätter - Sunday paper of the Lübecker Zeitung . Issue No. April 18, 30, 1865
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914 , Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1915, No. 49 Commons digitized
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeckische Ratslinie , Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1925, No. 990 Unchanged reprint Lübeck 1978. ISBN 3795005000