Louis Engelbrecht

Louis Konrad Eobald Engelbrecht (born September 5, 1857 in Braunschweig ; † July 24, 1934 there ) was a German lawyer , playwright and poet. He belonged to the circle of friends of the poet Wilhelm Raabe .

Life

The son of a higher court attorney and notary attended the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig and then studied law in Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1875 to 1878 . He worked as a lawyer since 1882 and as a notary in Braunschweig since 1890 . He received the title of Justice Council in 1904. Engelbrecht was a city councilor in Braunschweig until 1901. He chaired the Bar Association and the Braunschweig Warrior and Landwehr Association. From 1890 to 1918 the reserve officer Engelbrecht was editor of the "Landwehrzeitung". During the First World War he directed hospital trains and was promoted to captain in 1915 .

Literary man and "clothing seller"

Engelbrecht was the author of almost unknown dramas, tragedies, comedies and poems today. With the beginning of the First World War, his dramatic and lyrical works acquired an increasingly patriotic-national tendency. He had a positive view of the rising National Socialism and dedicated a poem to Hitler in 1934. He was one of the founders of the Braunschweig branch of the " German Schiller Foundation "

Engelbrecht belonged to the closer circle of friends of Wilhelm Raabe, with whom he met, among other things, in the sociable association of " honest clothing sellers ". In 1901 he organized the official celebration of Raabe's 70th birthday. After Raabe's death in 1911 he was one of the founders of the "Society of Friends of Wilhelm Raabe". In several essays he wrote about his memories of Raabe.

literature

• Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, p. 42.
• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. Braunschweig 2003, pp. 124-25.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 164.

Works (selection)

• The Brothers , civil tragedy, 1892
• The New Forester , Volksschauspiel, 1896
• Only against renunciation , comedy, 1899
• Being human , fairytale drama, 1910
• Holy Wrath 1914/15. War seals , Braunschweig 1915
• Farewell to Rome. Process in one act based on Otto Röses “In the Roman Hexenkessel” , Braunschweig 1916
• King Nikita , tragic comedy in one act, Braunschweig 1916
• East Prussia , play in one act, Braunschweig 1916
• Heinrich von Hohenstauffen , tragedy in five acts, Braunschweig 1925
• The mother of Pausanias , play in five acts, Braunschweig 1925

Two volumes of poetry appeared in 1901 and 1913.

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Engelbrecht in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig on braunschweig.de