Christian Engel

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Christian Engel

Christian Engel (born July 16, 1788 in Malchow Monastery (Mecklenburg) ; † January 8, 1871 in Röbel / Müritz ; full name: Christian Ludwig Bernhard Engel ) was a German lawyer, mayor and parliamentarian.

Life

Christian Engel was a younger son of the lawyer and from 1786 head chef of the Malchow Monastery Johann Jacob (Christian) Engel (1762–1840) and his wife Magdalene, née. Schröder (1765-1835). After attending grammar school in Schwerin, he studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Rostock. After graduating in 1810 he became a lawyer in Güstrow and took part in the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815. He then became mayor of the Mecklenburg small town of Röbel from 1815 until his retirement in 1861. Engel had been a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology since 1836 . In 1848 he was elected as a member of the Mecklenburg parliament in the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 78 (Röbel).

From 1841 to 1862 Hofrat Dr. Engel in Röbel also syndic of the Sandpropstei of the Dobbertin monastery office . Roez , Lexow , Sietow and Schamper Mühle belonged to the Vorderen Sandpropstei , and Lärz , Diemitz , Wale and Schwarz belonged to the Rear Sandpropstei .

Engel had been married to Ulrike Classe (1793–1881) since 1815 and had nine children, including Hermann Engel (1817–1887), a judicial officer in Bützow and Rostock, and Franz Engel (1834–1920), known as an explorer, most recently a museum assistant and librarian in Berlin.

Fritz Reuter contributed to his golden wedding with a specially written bachelorette party scene . The Engel family held the office of master chef as the executive finance officer, who was responsible for accounting and the official treasury in the Malchow monastery office, for three generations.

Honors

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2502 .

Individual evidence

  1. Malchow Monastery, protocol book.
  2. Registration Johann Jacob Christian Engel 1780 at the University of Bützow in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. The old Röbel. A memorial book for the 700th anniversary. Rostock 1926 p. 86.
  5. Whether Engel actually received a doctorate is uncertain and so far unproven! The Mecklenburg-Schwerin state calendar of 1850 lists him without an academic degree.
  6. There were family relationships with Reuter, since Engels sister Sophie (1790–1863) and Fritz Reuter's uncle Ernst Reuter (1783–1852), pastor a. a. was married in Jabel.

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