Hermann Schröder (historian)

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Hermann Schröder (born January 27, 1798 in Lübeck , † December 28, 1856 ) was a German lawyer, businessman and historian.

Life

Hermann Schröder was one of the sons of a Lübeck businessman. From 1808 he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and joined the Hanseatic Legion in the Wars of Liberation in 1815 . After briefly returning to the Katharineum by Easter 1816, he studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena. During his studies in Göttingen in 1817 he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen and later in Jena a member of the original fraternity . At the University of Jena he was awarded a Dr. PhD in both rights.

He became a lawyer in Lübeck, but because his legal work was not adequate for him, he applied for a position as council secretary of the city in 1825 , which he did not get because the mayor's son Ludolph Heinrich Kindler was preferred to him without a degree. He turned to the merchant class and became a member of the Lübeck Schonenfahrer . Here, too, the desired success failed to materialize, and in 1827 his brother, who was continuing his father's business, went bankrupt . In 1830 he followed his brother, who had emigrated before his creditors, to the United States , but returned to Lübeck in 1832 and initially resumed commercial activities in the insurance sector.

Schröder also dealt with Lübeck's history and genealogy. In 1844 he was entrusted to the state and entrusted the management of the Genealogical Institute in Lübeck , which had existed in Lübeck since 1768. It provided expert advice to the Lübeck Council on questions of kinship and inheritance law cases and kept the Genealogical Register . In the course of his activity, a work called Schröderschen Topographische Regesten was created today, consisting of 33 folios in which he systematically developed the sources of the Oberstadtbuch , the Lübeck land register since 1284 with 60,000 entries. Today, this work enables house research in Lübeck's old town and the clarification of other questions about the city's history up to the year 1600. Schröder only has preliminary work available for the following period. Due to his own testamentary arrangement, his scientific legacy is in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . His successor as Lübeck state genealogist was Georg Wilhelm Dittmer , who called him an "academic friend" after his death.

From 1848 Schröder was a member of the Lübeck citizenship . The later Lübeck Senator Gabriel Christian Carl Hermann Schröder was his son.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio de privilegiatis parentum inter liberos dispositionibus , Jena 1819
  • Topographical and genealogical notes from the 14th century , Lübeck 1843
    • various manuscripts in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and, since 1890, partly in the city ​​library

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) ( digitized version ), no. 59; among his fellow high school graduates were Georg Wilhelm Dittmer , Peter Ludwig Elder , Gustav Susemihl and Carl Hermann Gütschow
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 40 , 87
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, businessman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1856