Wilhelm Ditzen (lawyer)

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Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Ditzen (born August 5, 1852 in Malgarten , † April 14, 1937 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Wilhelm Ditzen was the son of the Crown Attorney (still assessor at the time of Ditzen's birth) Wilhelm Albert Ditzen and Caroline Antoinette Rudolphine, née. Stürenburg, born.

From 1873 to 1874 Ditzen served as a one-year volunteer with the King's Uhlans in Hanover .

From 1882 to 1886, Ditzen worked in Hildesheim, Lüneburg, Peine and Uelzen after successfully passing the Grand State Examination in Law. From 1886 to 1890 he worked as a local judge in Uelzen, where he married Elisabeth Lorenz, who was 16 years his junior.

In 1890 Ditzen took up a position as a district judge in Beuthen / Upper Silesia, which was followed from 1893 as a district judge (since 1896 district judge) in Greifswald .

In 1899 Ditzen was appointed member of the chamber judge, from then until 1909 he worked at the chamber court in Berlin, most recently at the criminal code commission. At the end of 1908 he was appointed Reich Judicial Councilor , followed by appeal to the Reich Court in Leipzig in February 1909. Wilhelm Ditzen was a member of the highest court in the German Empire until his retirement in 1918.

From 1906 to 1909 he worked on the revision of German criminal law.

Wilhelm Ditzen was born with Elisabeth Ditzen. Lorenz (1868–1951) married. The daughters Elisabeth and Margarete and the sons Ulrich (1895–1918) and Rudolf alias Hans Fallada emerged from the marriage .

literature

  • Hermann Weber: Sons of lawyers as poets. Hans Fallada, Johannes R. Becher and Georg Heym. The conflict with the world of their fathers in their life and work, Berlin 2009, p. 3 ff.
  • Karl-Heinz Borchardt: Wilhelm Ditzen (1852-1937). To the Greifswald years ; in: Gunnar Müller-Waldeck, Roland Ulrich, Patricia Fritsch (eds.): Hans Fallada. Contributions to life and work. Materials from the 1st International Hans Fallada Conference in Greifswald from June 10th to 13th, 1993 ; Rostock 1995, p. 211ff.
  • Heide Hampel, Erika Becker and Achim Ditzen (eds.): Hans Fallada and dear relatives, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-941683-23-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heide Hampel, Erika Becker and Achim Ditzen (eds.): Hans Fallada and the dear relatives. Berlin 2013, pp. 76–83.
personal data
SURNAME Ditzen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ditzen, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Malgarten
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1937
Place of death Leipzig