Otto Metterhausen

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Otto Johann Herman Metterhausen (born August 12, 1861 in Wittenburg , † October 2, 1943 in Schwerin ) was a German administrative officer, member of parliament (MdL) and Low German writer.

Life

Otto Metterhausen was born in 1861 as the son of the theologian Ludwig Metterhausen. After attending high school in Güstrow , he did an apprenticeship in taxation . He then initially worked as a tax officer in Mecklenburg and Hamburg before becoming secretary and office manager in the Grand Ducal Statistical Office in Schwerin. From 1919 to 1926 he was director of the statistical office with the rank of a government councilor. For 16 years he was a member of the Schwerin Citizens Committee. From 1903 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . In addition to his professional activity, he was also active as a writer. So he wrote, at times under the pseudonym "Vagel Strauss", poems, stories, comedies and non-fiction books, some of which were also written in Low German.

In 1919/20 he was a member of the constituent state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1920 to 1926 he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament for the German National People's Party (DNVP) and from 1924 to 1926 he also served as state parliament president.

Otto Metterhausen was married to Elisabeth Charlotte Emma Pauline, b. Kroner (1866-1943). The couple had two children, the son Heinrich Ludwig Otto (born June 9, 1888 in Hamburg; † November 11, 1946) and the daughter Anna (born October 6, 1889 Hamburg). Otto Metterhausen died shortly after the age of 82 and his grave is in the old cemetery in Schwerin.

Works (selection)

  • Schelmstück, represented by Vagel Strauss , 1901, Low German poems
  • De Wittenstedter Burmeistershochtid , 1903, in: Mecklenburgisches Dichterbuch
  • Old and young heroes , 1906
  • In the struggle for new territory in the southwest. Stories from the Herero uprising , 1907
  • with Paul Friedrich Evers: Marriage Holidays , 1911, and Miss Director , 1913, comedies
  • Schwerin i. M. From the history of the city , Sandmeyer, Schwerin 1928

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6552 f .
  • Metterhausen, Otto. In: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon Vol. 10, Francke, Bern [u. a.] 1986, ISBN 3-317-01539-X , Sp. 919.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Metterhausen, Schwerin (person) / Otto Metterhausen, Schwerin (family) In: Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, census 1900, in the genealogy portal FamilySearch.com
  2. ^ Elisabeth Metterhausen in the genealogy portal myheritage.de
  3. ^ Heinrich Ludwig Otto Metterhausen. In: Andreas Weigelt (Ed.) Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 454 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Metterhausen, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metterhausen, Otto Johann Herman (full name); Vagel Strauss (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, member of parliament (MdL) and Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1943
Place of death Schwerin