Otto Dettmers

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Otto Dettmers, 1911 as a student in Göttingen

Otto Dettmers (born December 26, 1892 in Bremen , † October 11, 1986 in Bremen) was a German lawyer , general director of North German Lloyd and an art collector .

biography

From 1911 Dettmers studied law at the Georg August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity in the winter semester of 1911/12 . In the meantime he moved to the University of Bonn . In 1914 he passed the exam before serving as a front-line soldier for four years during World War I. After being seriously wounded, he returned to Bremen as a reserve officer in 1918, and received his doctorate in 1920. jur. and was admitted as a lawyer and later as a notary after the assessor examination in 1921 . Within a few years he set up a law firm specializing in maritime law in Bremen .

In 1938 Dettmers was appointed to the board of directors of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) and in 1940 took over as chairman of the board for a short time, but returned to his law firm in 1942, where he worked until his death. Johannes Kulenkampff and Richard Bertram succeeded him as board members at NDL in 1942 .

Villa Bünemann

In 1938 he helped the Jewish couple Stern to flee the Third Reich , as Anne Siegel reports in her book Señora Gerta . In 1941 he acquired the Villa Bünemann , which he got back after expropriation by the Americans in 1952.

Due to his extensive specialist knowledge in the areas of international maritime law and transport insurance law , he was able to gain international reputation. For several decades he was an active member of various national and international associations in which he campaigned for the international standardization of shipping and transport law. He was Membre Titulaire du Comité Maritime International in Antwerp ; Member and long-term vice president of the German Association for International Maritime Law and member of the International Law Association . After the Second World War he helped to regain relations between Germany and international legal organizations in the area of ​​maritime law and worked as a consultant in this specialist area for the Federal Ministry of Justice . In addition, he was a member of the board of directors, vice-president and president of the Hanseatic Bar Association for 16 years .

His private interests were in music and the visual arts, which he supported through numerous memberships in cultural funding institutions. Particularly noteworthy is his internationally acclaimed glass collection, which he has built up since the 1920s. In 1961 it was exhibited in the Museum of Arts and Crafts . The collection was auctioned off by Sotheby’s in 1999 .

Awards

  • In the First World War he received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class

literature

  • Obituary in the Bremer Nachrichten on October 15, 1986.
  • Helmut Ricke, Susanne Netzer: Glasses from the Otto Dettmers collection. Berlin 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 83.
  2. ^ Georg Bessell: Norddeutscher Lloyd - 1857–1957 - History of a Bremen shipping company. Bremen 1957, p. 181.
  3. ↑ Ursula Büttner and Angelika Voss-Louis (eds.): New beginning on rubble. The diaries of Bremen's Mayor Theodor Spitta 1945–1947. Munich 1992, p. 185.
  4. ↑ Axel Hill: Too much luck for Hollywood. Anne Siegel from Cologne tells the fate of an emigrant - In: Kölnische Rundschau from September 21, 2016.
  5. ^ Katja Iken: Rescue from Sachsenhausen concentration camp. How Gerta Stern teased the Gestapo. In: Spiegel-Online from September 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ Silke Hellwig : An extremely well-kept villa . In: Weser-Kurier of April 13, 2015, p. 8.
  7. ^ FA Dreier: The glass collection Dr. Otto Dettmers. In: Sotheby's auction catalog No. 9239: The Dettmers Collection of European Glass. London 1999, p. 8.
  8. ↑ Museums Journal. Volume 14, Issue 2, Berlin 2000, p. 40.
  9. ^ Museum of Arts and Crafts : Six collectors are exhibiting: Dr. Christoph Bernouilli, Basel; Dr. Otto Dettmers, Bremen; Prof. Dr. Werner Gramberg, Hamburg; Dr. Johannes Jantzen, Bremen; Dr. Alexander Lehmann, Bremen; Dr. Hugo Oelze, Amsterdam. Exhibition from April 7th to June 11th, 1961. Hamburg 1961.
  10. ^ Sotheby's auction catalog No. 9239: The Dettmers Collection of European Glass. London 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Dettmers, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, general director of Norddeutscher Lloyd and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1986
Place of death Bremen