Carl Lichtenberg

Carl Wilhelm Franz Lichtenberg , also Karl L. , (born November 2, 1816 in Hanover , † June 26, 1883 in Suderode ) was a German state and church politician of the 19th century.

Life

family

Carl Lichtenberg was the father of the future mayor of Linden , Georg Lichtenberg , and the grandson of the Göttingen physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . He was the son of the Hanoverian general director of the Obersteuerkolleg Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

Career

Lichtenberg attended school in Hanover, the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium (1829-30) and the Lyceum in Celle (1830-35) before he began studying law, history and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1837 . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After passing the assessor examination in Celle in 1842, he joined the ministerial administration of the Kingdom of Hanover , where he worked in the Ministry of the Interior from 1845 and as its general secretary from 1852 to 1855 in the Ministry of Justice. From 1856 to 1862 he was Vice President of the Hanover Higher Court . From 1862 to 1865 Lichtenberg was Minister of Culture of the Kingdom of Hanover and in this function was significantly involved in the legislation to create a uniform Lutheran regional church.

The law faculty of Göttingen University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1863.

After the end of the Kingdom of Hanover, he was president of the regional consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover from 1866 to 1883 .

literature

Heinrich F. Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, P. 133, No. 381
Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 202-209.

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Mlynek : Lichtenberg, Georg… In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p 233 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
↑ 1786-1845 by NDB

personal data
SURNAME	Lichtenberg, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lichtenberg, Carl Wilhelm Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German state and church politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1883
Place of death	Suderode

[1] Klaus Mlynek : Lichtenberg, Georg… In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p 233 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[2] 1786-1845 by NDB