Carl Abraham Gütschow

Carl Abraham Gütschow (* 1735 on Gut Buschenhagen ; † February 2, 1798 in Lübeck ) was a lawyer, businessman and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Carl Abraham Gütschow was the son of the landowner Bartholomäus Gottfried Gütschow († 1745) on Gut Buschenhagen in Swedish Pomerania . From 1752 he studied law at the universities of Greifswald , 1754 Rostock and Jena (1757–1761), where in 1761 he became a Freemason together with Adolph Friedrich Dehns from Lübeck in the lodge to the three roses . After graduating, he first became a lawyer in Rostock . However, he changed his profession in 1765 and entered the trading business of the Lübeck merchant, later councilor and mayor Anton Diedrich Wilcken , whose only daughter, Sophie Hedwig, he married in 1765. As a junior partner of his father-in-law, he traveled to Scandinavia for the company. Like his father-in-law, he became a member of the Schonenfahrer in Lübeck and in 1772 their senior man . After the death of his father-in-law, he was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1792.

The Syndicus Anton Diedrich Gütschow and the councilor Heinrich Albrecht Gütschow , who continued the wine shop CA Gütschow & Sohn as a merchant, were his sons.

literature

• Anton Diederich Gütschow: Brief description of the character and life: Weiland Sr. Magnificence of the well-bored and highly wise Lord, Mr. Anton Diedrich Wilcken meritorious mayor of the imperial free imperial city of Lübeck , Green, Lübeck 1792

• Anton Diederich Gütschow: Dedicated to the memory of Mr. Carl Abraham Gütschow: Member of the Senate of the Imperial City of Lübeck , Lübeck 1798

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 939

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gut Buschenhagen at gutshaeuser.de
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Holger Zaunstöck: Sozietätslandschaft and membership structures , Niemeyer, 1999, p. 205.