Carl Engelhart

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Carl Anton Friedrich Engelhart (born April 8, 1817 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † June 30, 1886 there ) was a German politician and from 1856 to 1883 mayor of his hometown and from 1861 to 1883 a member of the Prussian mansion .

Life

Carl Engelhart was the third of eight children to the notary Friedrich Gottlieb Engelhart and his wife Dorothea Friederika (née Hoyer). After he had studied law like his father, he first became a higher regional court trainee. In 1845 Engelhart was elected to the city council of Mühlhausen and in 1856 succeeded the late Karl Theodor Gier as mayor of the city. As a representative of his hometown, he became a member of the Prussian manor house in 1861. He was also a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony . On June 28, 1868, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Mühlhausen. He was the first to be allowed to use this title.

In 1883 Engelhart retired from his political offices - he was succeeded (both as mayor and as a member of the manor house) Bernhard Schweinberg . Engelhart died three years later, on June 30, 1886.

His marriage to Auguste Charlotte Engelhardt in 1846 resulted in seven children.

literature

  • Roswitha Henning: The Mühlhausen Mayors and Lord Mayors 1803 to 2012 , Mühlhausen Contributions - Special Issue 24, 2012, ISBN 9783935547550 , p. 33 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Jordan: Chronicle of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Volume 4, Mühlhausen 1908, p. 142 ff.
  2. ^ Heinrich Jordan: Chronicle of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Volume 4, Mühlhausen 1908, p. 168.