Robert Dohme (court official)

Carl Robert Dohme (born April 27, 1817 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1896 there ) was a Prussian court official and founding director of the Hohenzollern Museum .

Dohme, the son of an official at the Court Marshal's Office, joined the Court Marshal's Office in 1836 as an assistant. There he was registrar, secretary and finally director and received the titles of a councilor (1859), a secret councilor (1866) and finally a secret councilor (1884). In 1885 he quits the service.

His duties also included overseeing the inventory of royal castles. The idea of ​​founding a Hohenzollern museum goes back to Dohme. With the support of Crown Prince Friedrich , a temporary exhibition was set up on May 4, 1868 in Monbijou Castle . On March 22, 1877, the 80th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I , the Hohenzollern Museum with its 42 halls was finally opened to the public. Dohme became the director of this museum and remained so after he left the service of the Court Marshal's Office until his death.

Dohme married Hulda Hoogeweg in 1844, daughter of a secret registrar. They had two sons, of whom Bruno later became a banker, while Robert (1845–1893) became an art historian and his career also began at the Prussian court.

Fonts

• Description of Stolzenfels Castle. As a reminder for travelers on the Rhine . Kühn, Berlin 1850 ( digitized version ).
  • Description of Stolzenfels Castle . Reprint of the font written by Robert Dohme in 1850. Introduced and edited by Georg Poensgen. Berlin 1930
  • Reprint of the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate, Administration of State Palaces, Castles and Antiquities, Mainz 1986.
• Under five Prussian kings . Memoirs of Robert Dohme, Real Secret Councilor in the Oberhofmarschallamt and Director of the Hohenzollern Museum, ed. by Paul Lindenberg . F. Dümmler, Berlin 1901 (with portrait photo in the frontispiece, digitized ).

literature

• Dohme, Robert . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, Volume 5. Leipzig 1906, p. 82 ( digitized version ).
• Thomas Kemper: Monbijou Castle. From the royal residence to the Hohenzollern Museum . Berlin 2005, esp. P. 86 ff (with illustration of a colored portrait drawing created by Adolph Menzel around 1864 for his Königsberg coronation picture).

Web links

• Estate in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage