Otto Friedrich Gramberg

Otto Friedrich Christian Gerhard Gramberg (born April 19, 1856 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † December 28, 1946 there ) was a German ministerial advisor and canon lawyer .

Life

origin

Gramberg was the oldest child of pastor Christian Bruno Gerhard Gramberg (1820-1890) and his wife Johanne Gerhardine (1832-1887), a daughter of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court President Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer (1788-1865). He grew up with four brothers and a sister, initially in Wardenburg and from 1864 in Jever .

Civil service career

Gramberg graduated from the Mariengymnasium in Jever and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig , Berlin and Göttingen . After completing his studies in 1879, he entered the civil service of the Duchy of Oldenburg . After training as an official auditor and as a secretary and unskilled worker with the Oldenburg government, he was employed as an official assessor (police assessor) for the city of Oldenburg for three years. He then moved back to the state administration and worked as governor in Delmenhorst (1888-1894) and Vechta (1895-1897). From 1898 onwards he found his final professional sphere of activity in the State Ministry of the Grand Duchy, first in the Department of the Interior , from 1908 onwards in the Ministry of Finance, which was transformed from a ministerial department into a ministry. As a Councilor (1902 Oberregierungsrat) in the interior department he was the Department of Commercial matters and also responsible Member for insurance matters. After moving to the Ministry of Finance, he was appointed Secret Chief Finance Councilor and Chief Customs Director. His insurance and utility responsibilities have been transferred to his new division. From 1909 until his retirement in 1923, Gramberg was chairman of the department for private insurance and a member of the management of the widow's, orphan's and annuity fund of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, and from 1901 a member of the government commission for the administration of funds and foundations .

Gramberg was also a substitute judge during his entire professional activity from 1898 to 1923 and later a member of the authority responsible for deciding on conflicts of jurisdiction between administrative and judicial authorities. For the same period, as a member of the government commission for the exercise of state rights with regard to the Roman Catholic Church, he was one of the contact persons for the official in Vechta in the Oldenburg government.

During the second phase of his activity in the apparatus of the state government, which passed from the grand ducal to the republican era without any break in 1919, Gramberg worked in the Ministry of Finance from 1908 as a secret chief finance advisor and chief customs director (from 1921 as ministerial advisor) in the position of lecturer council up to his Retired on May 1, 1923. From 1914, Gramberg was also a member of the auditing authority of the replacement commission. In addition to the civil service, he also came into closer contact with the finances of the grand ducal heads of state, as he was also a deputy member of the Grand Ducal House Fideikommiss directorate until 1918 . Finally, Gramberg also exercised a certain influence in the selection of the next generation for the Oldenburg judiciary and administration as a member of the State Legal Examination Commission for the second examination from 1914 to 1922.

Gramberg was briefly a member of the literary and sociable association of Oldenburg, where he gave several lectures, of which the agricultural policy considerations on wasteland and regional culture were printed in 1903 by the administration of the regional cultural fund in Oldenburg and reprinted in the Grenzbote in 1904 .

Activity in the church sector

In the church sector, Gramberg was involved as a member of the Church Council of the City of Oldenburg and as a part-time member of the Evangelical Lutheran Upper Church Council in Oldenburg. After 1918 he was president of the regional synod and was instrumental in drafting the ecclesiastical constitutions of both major denominations in the Oldenburg state as a lawyer.

family

On May 6, 1886, Gramberg married Betty Henriette Anna Schmeding (1858–1913), a daughter of the district doctor Hermann Wilhelm Gustav Schmeding in Vechta. The marriage had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son Johannes (1877–1963) was married to the Oldenburg local politician Margarethe Gramberg geb. Hoyer. Of the two daughters, the elder Emmi (1888–1960) was married to Eduard Högl (1875–1939), President of the Higher Regional Court, in Oldenburg.

literature

• Gramberg, Otto Friedrich Christian Gerhard. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 250-251 ( online ).

Web links

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