Walther Eugenius Dührssen

Walther Eugenius Dührssen , also Walther Eugenius Dührsen (born August 28, 1837 in Meldorf , † December 19, 1914 in Mölln ) was a German district judge and local researcher.

Live and act

Walther Eugenius Dührssen was the son of the Meldorfer surgeon Heinrich Christian Dührssen and his wife Anna Maria Beata, née Piehl (1810–1868) from Brunsbüttel . He attended the Meldorfer School of Academics and the Christianeum . He then studied law at Kiel University and Heidelberg University . After graduating from Kiel University in 1860, he worked as an official auditor in Lauenburg from 1861. In 1868 he moved to the Ratzeburg administration. In 1870 he received a position as a local judge in Mölln and in 1879 as a local judge.

In addition to his professional activity, Dührssen researched the early history of his home region and the families there. He began his research during a short professional stay in Büsum , where he worked on Paul Johann Friedrich Boysen's draft of a parish chronicle. While he was working in Ratzeburg, his colleague there, Carl Lorenz Sachau , recommended that he resume local research.

Dührssen founded a history association and took over the "Patriotic Archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg" from a predecessor. In 1884 he published the magazine "Archive of the Association for the History of the Duchy of Lauenburg" for the first time. The paper subsequently appeared regularly and contained numerous contributions on the early and prehistory and genealogy of the region. Dührssen worked hard to recruit friends who donated large sums of money. With this he acquired an antiquarian bookshop for the library of the Lauenburg Historical Society. He also opened and equipped a small museum.

Walther Eugenius Dührssen had been married to Ida Friederike Henriette von Christensen (1839–1910) since May 10, 1867, whose father Ernst Johann Friedrich von Christensen was known as a major, deichgrave and building director. The couple had a daughter and two sons. The daughter Anna Elise Maria (1868–1847) married Lieutenant General Eduard Stolzenburg . While one son died early, the son Alfred Walther became a writer and columnist.

literature

• D. Korth: Dührssen, Walther Eugenius . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 135-136.
• Hansjörg Zimmermann: Lauenburg in the historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Eckardt Opitz (ed.): The Duchy of Lauenburg in the mirror of literature (Colloquium XVII) , Bochum 2011, pp. 129–145.
• Hansjörg Zimmermann: Article Dührsen, Walther Eugenius , in: Eckardt Opitz on behalf of the Herzogtum Lauenburg Foundation (ed.): Biografisches Lexikon Herzogtum Lauenburg , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-778-1 , p. 135 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death entry in Mölln