Otto Dieckhoff

Berthold Otto Dieckhoff (born January 18, 1872 in Göttingen , † October 19, 1947 in Uelzen ) was a German high school professor . He became known nationwide and enduringly mainly through his guide through the Upper Weser region ( Weserbergland ), which appeared in several editions.

Life

Dieckhoff first attended the upper elementary school and then from 1881 to 1890 the royal high school in Göttingen , which was under the direction of Anton Viertel from 1889 . From autumn 1890 he studied classical philology , German literature and history at the University of Göttingen and graduated there in 1894 with a dissertation on Cicero's de natura deorum , supervised by Friedrich Leo and written in Latin . From 1898 he taught Latin and Ancient Greek for 19 years at the grammar school in Hameln (today's Schiller grammar school ) and was promoted to grammar school professor there. From 1917 he was director of the high school in Uelzen (from 1925 urban reform real high school and secondary school Uelzen; today Herzog-Ernst high school ). In 1934 he retired as a grammar school director, but continued to teach sporadically (especially at the end of the war and in the first few months afterwards).

From 1921 until his death in 1947 he was the chairman of the Uelzen Tourist Association

Dieckhoff published numerous regional travel and hiking guides , of which his guide through the Weser region, first published in 1912, was the most successful; the book was reissued three times in extended versions up to 1929 (two volumes at the end) and is still regarded as a standard work today. In 2012, the hundredth anniversary of the first edition was commemorated.

Publications

• De Ciceronis libris de natura Deorum recensendis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1895 (= Phil. Diss. Göttingen 1894) (written in Latin) ( digitized from Harvard University.)
• Guide through the Upper Weser region , ed. from the Weser Mountains Association. Hameln u. a .: Verlag des Wesergebirgsverein, 1912. ( Digitized version of the University of Paderborn 2005.)
• Small guide through the Upper Weser region. Hameln: Verlag des Wesergebirgsvereis, 1916.
• The Weser Mountains. Berlin: Goldschmidt, 1917 ( Grieben's travel guide , volume 505).
• Teutoburg Forest with Osning and Egge Mountains. Berlin: Goldschmidt, 1919 ( Grieben's travel guide , volume 525).
• Guide through the Upper Weser region . 2nd expanded and improved edition, Kassel: Max Augustin, 1921.
• The Weserbergland from Hanover, Hildesheim to Minden, Hameln, Pyrmont. Kassel: Max Augustin, 1923.
• Guide through the Upper Weser region . 3rd significantly expanded and improved edition, Holzminden: Hüpke, 1927.
• Guide through the Upper Weser region , ed. from the Weser Mountains Association.
  • Part 1: Kassel and Fuldatal, Göttinger Berge, Werra Valley, Kaufunger Wald, Meißner, Reinhardswald, Bramwald, Solling, Eggegebirge with Edertalsperre, Köterberg, Vogler, Hils, Ith, Alfelder and Hildesheimer Berge . 4th edition, Holzminden: Hüpke, 1926 ( Hüpke's travel books , volume 1: Weserbergland, part 1).
  • Part 2: Hanover and the surrounding area, Osterwald, Saupark Deister, Süntel, Weser chain, Bückeberg, Porta Westfalica, Schaumburg Forest, Rehburg Mountains, Steinhuder Meer, Lippisches Berg- und Hügelland, Pyrmonter Berge, Teutoburger Wald and Wiehengebirge. 4th edition, Holzminden: Hüpke, 1929 ( Hüpke's travel books , volume 1: Weserbergland, part 2).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Dieckhoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Alex Hinrichsen: 100 years of guides through the Upper Weser region (October 27, 2012) (accessed April 10, 2018)
2. ↑ See Johann Christian Meyer: Hundert Jahre Verkehrsverein Uelzen eV (2009) ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 10, 2018)