Carl Friedrich Gottfried Mohr

Carl Friedrich Gottfried Mohr (born April 9, 1803 in Bremen , † December 13, 1888 in Bremen) was a Bremen Senator and Mayor.

biography

Mohr was the son of the realtor Nicolaus Mohr and the daughter of Senator Franz Friedrich Droste (1753–1817) Sophia Mohr geb. Droste. He was married to the merchant's daughter Sophie Helene Löning; both had eight children.

After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1822 and obtained his doctorate in 1825. jur. He was then a lawyer in Bremen.

In 1839 he became a senator in Bremen . After 1848 he was primarily responsible for the police department and was involved in the constitutional discussions of 1848/49 and of 1852 for a Bremen constitution . He later worked in the Senate for education and in the church commission. From 1857 to 1873 he was also the mayor of the Bremen rural community Kattenturm and owner of Gut Wolfskuhle in Kattenturm.

Mohr was Mayor of Bremen from 1857 to 1861, from 1864 to 1867 and from 1870 to 1873 and he was President of the Senate in 1857, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1866, 1871 and 1873. Due to age, he left the Senate in 1873.

He was buried in the Riensberg cemetery , grave location R 253. The Bürgermeister-Mohr-Weg in Kattenturm was named after him.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators
• List of Bremen mayors

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .
• Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Volume 7 · habenhausen, Arsten . Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen, 1999, ISBN 3-932249-04-6 .