Ludwig Dill (poet lawyer)

Ludwig Dill , also Louis Dill (born March 31, 1812 in Karlsruhe , † November 28, 1887 in Durlach ) was a German administrative lawyer and magistrate who became known as a poet lawyer and composer.

Life

Ludwig Dill attended high school in Karlsruhe and actually wanted to be a musician. His father persuaded him to study law, which he studied from 1831 at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau until 1836. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . In 1843 Dill was accepted into the Baden administration as an official assessor at the district office of Schopfheim and in 1845 transferred to Gernsbach , where he was promoted to magistrate in 1848 . In 1849 he was imprisoned in Rastatt by the Provisional Government together with other officials during the Baden Revolution . After the end of the revolution he was transferred to Gengenbach and in 1852 to Eppingen . In 1856 he became a district judge at the Durlach District Court, where he said goodbye in 1862 after the death of his father and moved to Stuttgart . In Stuttgart he absorbed his literary and musical inclinations and became a member of the literary association Bergwerk , of which Wilhelm Raabe was a member, for example . After the death of his wife in 1873, he moved back to his Durlach house.

The painter Ludwig Dill was his son and one of three children.

Compositions

• He wrote 70 sonatas , 16 of which were published in sheet music

Fonts

• Poems , 1863
• World and Dream , 1869
• Paul and Therese
• Patriotic poems (four editions)
• Colorful leaves
• Humor and satyr

literature

• Badische Biographien Volume 4, p. 85
• Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 249

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 121 , 299.