Julius Kettler

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Julius Iwan Kettler (born July 17, 1852 in Osnabrück , † July 14, 1921 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a German statistician , geographer , local researcher , Privy Councilor , journalist , editor and cartographer .

Life

"Flemmings war map No. 28: Egypt and Suez Canal with overviews of the Mohammedan Orient "; Carl Flemming AG
publishing house , Berlin and Glogau

Julius Iwan Kettler was born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover in Osnabrück in 1852 as the son of a Royal Hanoverian colonel and regimental commander. After his school education, Kettler participated in the founding of the Geographical Society in Hanover as early as 1878 .

Similar to Julius Tietz , Julius Kettler was also a cousin of Hedwig Reder, his future wife Hedwig Kettler .

Julius Kettler studied geography in Berlin - and met his cousin Hedwig again at his place of study; The two married on November 24, 1880. In the following year, 1881, the couple had their daughter Hermine Kettler , who would later make a name for herself as a writer.

The early as 1880 in Weimar appearing Journal of scientific geography , regard also to higher geographical education , was meanwhile founded by Kettler.

In 1881 Julius Kettler was initially able to take over the duties of the editor of the Lahrer Zeitung in Baden before he began working as an assistant to the statistical office there in Karlsruhe .

In 1884 Kettler was appointed head of the Bertuch Geographical Institute in Weimar , where he worked for almost a decade.

From 1893 Julius Kettler was director of the Hanover Statistical Office, which was newly founded in Hanover.

In 1901, Kettler was the main founder of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund , for which he was chairman of the association until 1911.

In the years 1912 and 1913, Kettler also had the duties of the Chairman of the NAfH- Flurnamen Commission adopted.

During the First World War from 1914, in particular , Kettler was the publisher and editor of several dozen wall and special maps , some of which appeared as lithographed and colored maps in Berlin and Glogau , for example as "Flemmings war map" or under titles such as "Flemmings wall maps of the world war" or “Flemming's special map of the entire western front”. In addition to numerous maps of German states and European states, the map also dealt with China, Japan and South Asia or gave an initial overview as a “war world map”. He issued maps with titles such as The sinking of our submarines according to location and number based on official material with sea battles, restricted areas, land fronts, land gain and loss .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Kettler edited maps, sometimes in many dozen editions, under titles such as The Destruction of Germany after the demands of our enemies at the peace conference or Germany and neighboring areas according to the provisions of the Peace of Versailles , but also the peoples map of northern Poland and eastern Germany .

Julius Kettler died on July 14, 1921 in Berlin-Friedenau. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Kettlerweg

The Kettlerweg, laid out in 1953 in the Hanoverian district of Waldhausen , has since posthumously honored the "Director of the Statistical Office and founder of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund, the Privy Councilor Julius Kettler".

From 1935 to 1945 the Strousbergstrasse in Hanover-Linden (South) was called Kettlerstrasse.

Archival material

Archives by and about Julius Kettler can be found, for example

  • as estate Julius Kettler : "Statistical Quarterly Reports (reference library) and dispensing the Statistical Office (mainly literature)" in the city archives Hannover

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Iwan Kettler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ "According to other sources", the deviating date of birth July 14, 1852 is given.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o.V. : Kettler, Julius Iwan in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of February 13, 2012, last accessed on January 15, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hugo Thielen : Kettler, (2) Julius. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 198.
  4. ↑ Karin Ehrich , Christiane Schröder (ed.): Nobles, workers and ... Women's life in the city and region of Hanover from the 17th to the 20th century (= materials on regional history , vol. 1), ed. on behalf of the Hanover region, the municipal association Greater Hanover u. a., Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89534-292-9 and ISBN 3-89534-292-0 , p. 134; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the journal database
  6. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Kettlerweg , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 140
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 753.
  8. ↑ Compare the information in the main registry under the signature StadtA H 1.HR.15 "Clubs, celebrations and exhibitions" in the Lower Saxony archive information system Arcinsys Niedersachsen

Helmut Zimmermann Strousbergstrasse, in ders. The street names of the state capital Hanover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 238

personal data
SURNAME Kettler, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kettler, Julius Iwan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician, geographer, local researcher, Privy Councilor, journalist, editor and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1921
Place of death Berlin-Friedenau