Otto Weerth

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Otto Weerth (born June 21, 1849 in Blomberg ; † April 27, 1930 in Detmold ) was a high school professor and long-time chairman of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land Lippe eV In his memory, the Otto Weerth Prize is awarded.

Life

Otto Weerth was the son of the Blomberg pastor Gottfried Wilhelm Weerth (1815-1884) and his wife Charlotte Helene Reinold (1828-1903). His grandfather was the general superintendent of the Lippe regional church Ferdinand Weerth .

Weerth graduated from the Leopoldinum in Detmold in 1868 . In April of the same year he began studying in Göttingen and Tübingen . From July 1870 to July 1871 he interrupted this study because he volunteered for military service in the 55th regiment. He came into French captivity in Metz. After he had resumed his studies, he passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post in Göttingen in March 1873. In 1874 he wrote his dissertation in Jena.

Weerth taught at the grammar school and secondary school in Celle as early as Easter 1873 . At Easter 1876 he moved to the Leopoldinum in Detmold. In the same year he became an assistant to his uncle Carl Weerth . This headed the natural science museum in Detmold (today Lippisches Landesmuseum ). In 1889 Weerth was appointed director of the museum.

In 1890 Weerth ran for the National Liberal Party for election to the Reichstag. On April 1, 1893, Weerth was appointed senior high school teacher , and on January 16, 1896, he was promoted to high school professor . In the state elections in Lippe 1900 on December 18, 1900, he was elected as a representative of class Ib in the Lippe state parliament, to which he belonged until the end of the 1904 electoral term.

On October 22, 1904, Weerth was a founding member and chairman of the history department of the Natural Science Association. The publication of the journal Mitteilungen aus der Lippe history and regional studies began . The first article in the first edition of the Mitteilungen in 1903 was a report by Otto Weerth about his excavations at the Uffoburg .

Weerth retired on March 31, 1921 and in 1927 resigned the chairmanship of the association, which he had held since at least 1892. The association appointed him honorary chairman. In 1929 Weerth became the first honorary citizen of Oerlinghausen . After a long illness he died on April 27, 1930 in Detmold.

family

Weerth was a nephew of Georg Weerth and brother of the local writer Julie Weerth. On April 24, 1878, Weerth married Hedwig Dorothea Wolphine Lampson from Berlin . The following children were born from this marriage:

  • Margarete Maria (born June 30, 1879)
  • Karl Emil Ferdinand Weerth (born June 13, 1889), teacher

Works

  • The Veme or the Freigericht in the area of ​​the Principality of Lippe. 1895 ( LLB Detmold )
  • The Ravensberg County paper mills . In: Annual report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg 16 (1902), pp. 24–35.
  • The paper and the paper mills in the Principality of Lippe . Hinrichs, Detmold 1904.
  • Guide through the zoological collection of the State Museum. 1922
  • Geology of the Land Lippe. 1929

literature

  • Kai Bosecker, Jan-Ole Janssen and Thilo Schneider: Otto Weerth. In: Lippe messages from history and regional studies. 71. Volume, Detmold 2002, pp. 265-331.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Weerth  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Weerth: "The Uffenburg near Bremke - messages from the history of Lippe and regional studies", No. 1, 1903, digitized
  2. ^ Otto Weerth , accessed April 13, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Weerth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Blomberg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1930
Place of death Detmold