Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann

Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann ( born June 14, 1761 Weimar, † October 4, 1835 in Jena ) was a Weimar civil servant, writer and childhood friend of the playwright August von Kotzebue.

Ackermann grew up in Weimar where he met the later dramatist August von Kotzebue know. From 1779 to 1782 he studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena. After his father had started since 1780 in Ilmenau a position as a judicial magistrate, followed him in 1782 Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann in this city and became the Official Auditor and tutor. After the death of his father he nahmd its place in 1792.

It is reported that he is to develop the separately located from the rest of Saxe-Weimar Office Ilmenau and its judiciary acquired great merit in that time. After a worse financial position in the course of administrative reform in 1815, Ilmenau towards Weimar, Ackermann asked the Grand Duke Carl August for his dismissal as judicial magistrate. He was then in the 1816 Secret clerk in Weimar Department of Justice. He held until his retirement in 1826 this place.

During this time he also began initially anonymously, to write texts for the conservative literary weeklies his friend von Kotzebue. After his death in 1819, Ackermann was the sole publisher and editor of this newspaper.

Works

• August von Kotzebue. From his own written communications truly and faithfully represented by one of his childhood friends. Hoffmann Verlag, Weimar 1819.