Albert Schulte (politician, 1716)

Albert Schulte (born June 13, 1716 in Hamburg ; † January 3, 1786 ibid) was a German lawyer and mayor .

Life

Albert Schulte came from a family from which various personalities came from since the beginning of the 16th century, including his great-grandfather Johann Schulte was Mayor of Hamburg from 1668 to 1697.

Albert Schulte was the fourth of eleven children of the merchant Albert Schulte (born November 10, 1681; † May 25, 1746) and his wife Maria Caecilie (born September 28, 1691 in Hamburg; † December 4, 1754), daughter of Senator Johann Joachim Boetefeur (1652–1728), President of the Chamber of Commerce . His father was elected to the Senate on November 30, 1729 as the successor to Daniel Stockfleth , who had been appointed mayor, and remained a senator until his death.

Albert Schulte was first taught by private tutors and attended the lower class of the Johanneum and the Lyceum , where he received lessons from Johann Hübner , Johann Samuel Müller and the rector Johann Joachim Neudorf († 1752), so that after the required exams he was on the 20th May 1734 returned to the Johanneum to the Academic Gymnasium . He chose the field of law and received Michael Richey , who was also the husband of his father's sister, as well as the professors Johann Christian Wolf , Joachim Dietrich Evers (1695–1741), Christoph Heinrich Dornemann (1682–1753), Johann Albert Fabricius and Hermann Samuel Reimarus , among his teachers. In 1737 he publicly defended the subject of De Hamburgo veteri, under the leadership of Michael Richey , in Connoburgo Smeldingorum perperam invento ; He then began studying law at the University of Leipzig and heard lectures by Gottfried Mascov , Petermann, Ferdinand August Hommel , Christian Gottlieb Jöcher and Cramer. He finished his studies with his inaugural dissertation on the law of the state in the case of heirs and received the Dr. jur. both rights on August 25, 1740. Until his return to Hamburg in 1741 he traveled through Germany, Belgium and France .

In Hamburg he initially took on legal advice and in 1742 became an assessor at the Lower Court , which he chaired the following year. On November 9th, he was selected to advise the Senate on matters affecting the indebted; this led to the Hamburg Fallitenordnung ( insolvency plan ) in 1753 .

On February 3, 1753, he succeeded the late Johannes Diedrich Lochau in the senatorial office. One of his first tasks from 1754 to 1758 was the maintenance of the canals that led through Hamburg, as well as the Elbe and its fortifications.

From 1759 to 1761 he was praetor , combined with the chairmanship of the lower court, with the subsequent task of supervising the merchants' treasure and the bank. In 1766 he was given supervision of the Ritzebüttel office , but refused the task after his wife had died shortly before and took over the duties of aedile and praetor in the areas bounded by the Elbe and the Bille .

From 1769 to 1774 he was the administrator of the forest villages , was in charge of warfare and trade, administered the craftsmen's court and was in charge of the grain and wine customs. In 1775 he became an envoy for the Bergedorf administration , propaetor for Hamm and Horn , chairman of the mill system and assessor of the admiralty and other institutions, and he was also the curator of the entire school system.

After Mayor Johannes Schlueter (1715–1778) died on September 4, 1778, Albert Schulte was elected as his successor on September 11, 1778 and was thus also Generalissimo . From 1779 to 1784 he chaired the court of craftsmen and headed the Admiralty together with Nicolaus Schuback and Vincent Rumpff . His duties as mayor also included the patronage of the Nicolaikirche , the prisons, the St. Georg Hospital , the St. Johannis Monastery and the St. Jacobi Hospitals and he was in charge of the coinage, the drug dealers and the orphanages.

When Nicolaus Schuback died on July 29, 1783, Albert Schulte took over the chairmanship of the senior council, with which the administration of the entire war system was connected, as well as the patronage of the Gertrudenkirche , and, after he had changed his place of residence, the patronage for the Petrikirche .

Johann Adolph Poppe (1727–1807) succeeded him in the mayor's office, which he held until his death.

family

In 1748 Albert Schulte married Margarethe Maria († 1766), daughter of the former mayor Johann Hermann Luis (1683–1741); her brother Johann Luis later also became mayor of Hamburg. They had five children together:

• Catharina Maria Schulte (* February 16, 1749; † March 26, 1784), married to the businessman Jakob Köpcke;
• Maria Theresia Schulte (born February 20, 1750; † November 24, 1776);
• Johann Schulte (born March 27, 1751 - † August 30, 1817), Dr. jur. both rights and president of the French trade tribunal in Hamburg, married to Sara Catharina, daughter of the mayor Johannes Luis;
• Albert (January 9, 1753 - October 30, 1754);
• Johanna Margarethe (* March 27, 1765; † unknown), married to the doctor Carsten Albrecht Schrödter.

Honors

A mayor's penny was issued in his honor after his death.

Fonts (selection)

• When the noble gentleman Johann Hübner was brought to his resting place on the 28th Maji in 1731, he wanted to pay his last respects to his highly deserved Praeceptori with these few lines: Mourning poem for Johann Hübner, Rector of the Johanneum in Hamburg, d. 21. May 1731 . Hamburg King 1731.
• Johann Peter Kohl ; Pinging; Johann Albert Fabricius; Michael Richey; Hermann Samuel Reimarus; Johann Joachim Neudorff; Charles Mouton; Johann Andreas Scheffel; Albert Schulte; Barthold Heinrich Brockes; Johann Paul Fincke; Georg Christoph Palm; Paul Schaffshausen ; Lucas vom Kampe; Just Vincent Knight; Johann Wilhelm Mattfeld: The myrtle leaves collected from the coffin of a young man full of hope . Hamburg Göttingen State and University Library of Lower Saxony 1733.
• Caius Laurentius Brockdorff; Henning Buehring; Franz Anton Wagener; Albert Schulte; Margarete Fabricius; Rudolph Beneke; Johann Albert Fabricius: To the venerable, highly respectable and highly learned Mr. Jo. Alberto Fabricio SS Theol. Doctori, and professori Philosophiae practicae & Eloquentiae, who earned high at the Hamburg Gymnasio, as the same one of his married love faded in God, Frau Margareta bored Schultzen d. Jan. 23 Ao. 1736. had to be buried, wanted to obediently testify their oath of oath, named after the Hn. Doctori highly connected Ciues Gymnasii . Hamburg printed by Rudolph Beneken, at St. Jacobi Kirchhofe Hamburg 1736.
• De Hamburgo veteri, in Connoburgo Smeldingorum perperam invento . Hamburgum: Koenig, 1737.
• De Ivre Fisci In Hereditates Privatorvm . Lipsiae: Langenheim, 1740.

Literature (selection)

• Albert Schulte . In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Hamburg 1840. p. 250 f.
• Albert Schulte . In: Johann Moritz Heinrich Gericke: Mayor Albert School (Nekrolog).
• Albert Schulte . In: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present , 7th volume. Hamburg 1879. pp. 80 f.

Web links

• Albert Schulte . In: Hamburg personalities .

Individual evidence

1. ^ An attempt at a scholarly history of Hamburg: in alphabetical order with critical and pragmatic remarks. Two parts . P. 132 f. Herold, 1783 ( google.de [accessed June 3, 2019]).
2. ↑ The newer Hamburg coins and medals: a continuation of the Hamburg coin and medal fun . P. 59. Printed by Johann August Meissner, 1843 ( google.de [accessed June 4, 2019]).