Johann Ritter (Pastor)

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Johann Ritter , completely Johann Gottfried Christian Ritter (born August 26, 1799 in Schwerin , † November 29, 1880 in Rostock ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, farmer and member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives .

Life

Johann Ritter was the son of master tailor Johann Andreas Ritter. He attended schools in Kiel and Schwerin and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle and from May 1821 Rostock . As a student, he was a member of the secret youth association and chairman of its Lower Saxony Circle, which brought him proceedings for demagogic activities from 1823 to 1828 and imprisonment in the winter of 1828/29 at the Dömitz fortress . From 1820 it belonged to the Halle Burschenschaft / Quellengesellschaft and from 1822 to the Germania Rostock Burschenschaft . In 1830 he opened a private school in Wittenburg and was also employed as an assistant preacher here in 1832. In 1843 he was appointed pastor in Vietlübbe .

When elected to the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives in 1848, he was elected a Member of Parliament in a by-election in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin constituency 47: Lübz . He joined the Reform Party faction on the left and was elected to the economic committee.

In 1849 there were church supervisory proceedings against him before the grand ducal consistory because of his political activity, which led to his removal from office in 1852. He and his family were taken in by the neighboring tenant Winter in Karbow . With financial support from friends, he acquired the Rostock- Friedrichshöhe leasehold in 1854 , where he devoted himself to growing flowers and fertilizing experiments. From 1876 he retired in Rostock.

Ritter worked as a local researcher for decades and published nearly one hundred articles and reports in the yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , of which he was a member. He was particularly interested in barrows and in 1845 he himself dug grave mounds in the Sandkrug forest ( Plau am See , Reppentin district).

Works

  • Grammar of the Mecklenburg-Low German dialect. Rostock and Schwerin: Stiller 1832
Digitized version , Ghent University
  • Brief instruction ... milk yield of the cows. 1846
  • The life and nutrition of plants, especially cultivated plants: For practical farmers. Frankfurt: Sauerlander 1863
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8214 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 202-203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account . 1850, pp. 57, 63 and 76
  3. ↑ Conical grave of Sandkrug, DA Lübz, No. 1., No. 2. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, Volume 11 (1846), p. 387
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Johann Gottfried Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, farmer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1880
Place of death Rostock