Adolf Brehmer

Adolf Brehmer (born June 6, 1840 in Lübeck ; † September 28, 1904 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Adolf Brehmer was the son of Lübeck's mayor Heinrich Brehmer and brother of the mayor Wilhelm Brehmer . After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck in 1860, he completed his law studies in Tübingen , Berlin and Göttingen with a doctorate in law. jur. from. Brehmer became a member of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen in Tübingen . He settled down as a lawyer and notary in his hometown and in 1875 became a member of the Lübeck citizenship and their proven spokesman for years. Brehmer was the initiator of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce, which existed alongside the Chamber of Commerce and was its consultant for many years . Brehmer, who had bought the house of the late Senator Tegtmeyer in Roeckstraße in 1878 , founded the St. Gertrud Association in the Lübeck suburb of St. Gertrud in 1889 , which accompanied the rapid development of this suburb around the Lübeck city park ideally and with considerable donations. From 1892 to 1895 he was director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck.

His daughter Magdalena, the mother of the weaver Alen Müller-Hellwig , was the model for the literary figure of Magdalena Vermehren in Thomas Mann's story Tonio Kröger .

literature

• Alken Bruns: Brehmer family in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 58–59
• Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860-1945. A photographic foray. Bremen 2007, p. 52 ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 174.