Anton Diedrich Wilken

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Anton Diedrich Wilken (* 1715 in Lübeck ; † March 14, 1792 in Lübeck) was a German merchant and Lübeck mayor .

Life

Anton Diedrich Wilken was a businessman in Lübeck and a member of the Lübeck Schonenfahrer . As their elder , he was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1769. According to now-living Kauffmannschektiven in and outside Germany from 1743, like "Wilcken Senior (Peter)" he traded in wine and had a shop on Mühlenstrasse .

From 1769 to 1778, together with councilor Gotthard Friedrich Carstens, he led the construction of the first stone dolls bridge west of the Holsten Gate in Lübeck. As councilor, shortly before his death in 1790, he was appointed one of Lübeck's mayors.

The later Lübeck councilor Carl Abraham Gütschow entered his wine shop and became his son-in-law.

Anton Diedrich Wilken was buried in Lübeck Cathedral .

literature

  • Friedrich Daniel Behn : His magnificence the noble born ... Friedrich Green ... who ... was raised to the prestigious mayor dignity and ... Anton Diederich Wilcken ... who ... was appointed a member of a ... council. Lübeck 1769.
  • Anton Diedrich Gütschow : Brief description of the character and life: Weiland Sr. Magnificence of the well-bored and very wise Lord, Mr. Anton Diedrich Wilcken meritorious mayor of the imperial free imperial city of Lübeck. Green, Lübeck 1792.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. No. 913, Lübeck 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kauffmanns currently living in and outside Germany. Verlag Johann Samuel Heinsius, Leipzig 1743, p. 102 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Friedrich Techen : The tombstones of the cathedral in Lübeck. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 7 (1898) digitized version, pp. 52–107, here p. 68 No. 51
personal data
SURNAME Wilken, Anton Diedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1792
Place of death Lübeck