Hermann Rittscher

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Franz Eduard Hermann Rittscher

(Franz Eduard) Hermann Rittscher (born February 13, 1839 in Nusse ; † August 11, 1897 in Lübeck ) was a lawyer , notary and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

biography

Rittscher studied law at the University of Jena and the University of Göttingen . He was a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena (1858) and Brunsviga Göttingen (1860). In 1859 he was chairman of the Kösener Congress on the Rudelsburg . He completed his studies with the state examinations and the doctorate to Dr. iur. from.

In 1861 he was admitted to the bar and notary in his home town of Lübeck. At the age of 26 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship . Eight years later "the general confidence in the Senate appointed him" . As a senator, he was a member of the Justice Commission and Deputy President of the administrative authority for municipal institutions. For more than 24 years he was the conductor of the Lübeck Police Office (until 1879 as a deputy).

As a lawyer he represented Mrs. Julia Mann , the mother of Heinrich and Thomas Mann , against the executor of her husband Krafft Tesdorpf .

His early death was generally regretted: "A tragic fate carried him off in his prime . "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 129 , 389; 64 , 340
  2. a b Fehling, 1925
  3. Thomas Mann: Collegheft 1894–1895 , p. 8 fn. 5, digitized