Carl Friedrich Christian Buff

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Carl Friedrich Christian Buff (left)

Carl Friedrich Christian Buff (* 1820 in Ibbenbüren ; † 1891 in Bremen ) was a businessman as well as a senator and mayor of the city of Bremen.

family

Carl Friedrich Christian Buff's father was the Oberbergrat Ludwig Carl Christian Buff from Ibbenbüren . He was married to Clementine Wilhelmine Talla. They had seven children, including the Bremen Senator Clemens Carl Buff (1853-1940).

politics

Buff was a Senator in Bremen from the 1870s . Together with Friedrich Pfeiffer, Franz Buchenau and Edmund Pavenstedt, he was one of the leading national liberals in Bremen. He was a member of the Siegen Masonic Lodge to the 3 iron mountains , the Bremen Lodge Zum Ölzweig ( lodge master (1869–1884)) and the Protestant Association in Bremen.

Between 1882 and 1918 the Bremen Senate elected two Bremen mayors from among its members for one calendar year each ; repeated re-election was possible. Buff served as mayor for one year in 1883, 1885, 1888, and 1890, respectively.

He was a member of the Senate until his death in 1891. He was buried in Waller Friedhof , Grablage X 82.

As the acting mayor and president of the Senate in 1888, he and the mayors of Hamburg ( Johannes Versmann ) and Lübeck ( Heinrich Theodor Behn ) worked on Anton von Werner's monumental painting The Opening of the Reichstag in the White Hall of the Berlin Palace by Wilhelm II (25 June 1888) in the Berlin German Historical Museum .

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