Christian Friedrich Strackerjan

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Christian Friedrich Strackerjan (born December 23, 1777 in Stollhamm in the Duchy of Oldenburg ; † January 20, 1848 there ) was a German author , lawyer , historian and Freemason .

Life

Strackerjan was born as the son of the bailiff and chamber councilor Christian Friedrich Strackerjan (1748–1807) and his wife Magdalene Elisabeth b. Pletzky (1755-1830). Strackerjan was initially taught by private tutors and from April 1794 attended the old grammar school in Oldenburg and from November 1795 the University of Jena . He studied law . In May 1798 he finished his studies and worked as a junior lawyer in Oldenburg. From 1800 he worked as a secretary in various authorities in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . As an auditor for the Oldenburg Military Commission, he also worked for the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment . In 1803 Strackerjan was appointed regional court assessor in Neuchâtel , but soon got into a conflict with a colleague, which led to a lengthy process.

He was integrated into Freemasonry at an early age . He started in the lodge Zum golden Hirsch in Oldenburg from March 8, 1802, from April 30, 1803 as a journeyman and from June 23, 1804 as a master. Later he donated the box to the silver cross . Here he was the only master. After the lodge was dissolved, he rejoined the Zum golden Hirsch lodge on June 24, 1842.

In 1804, after moving to Oldenburg, he took over the editing of the state calendar. In 1805 he accepted Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Bentinck's offer to serve as the Count's Councilor . As a legal advisor and private secretary, he accompanied the Count to Berlin and Saint Petersburg in 1806 . In November 1806 he was the first assessor at the district court in Varel . On December 3, 1809 he was promoted to bailiff . From 1809 Strackerjan had the position of the executive committee of the district court.

During the time of the French occupation he was justice of the peace in Burhave . From January 1813 he again held the position of secretary to Count Bentinck.

When French rule in north-west Germany apparently wavered in March 1813 and unrest against the occupation broke out across the country, Count Bentinck took advantage of the situation to instantly regain the government in Varel and set up a new administrative authority to which Strackerjan also belonged . After the unexpected return of the French, Strackerjan was arrested.

Strackerjan and his brother were tried by a French court martial , sentenced to six months in prison and imprisoned in Wesel and Maastricht on the orders of the French general Dominique Joseph Vandamme . In April 1814 he was released.

Later he was able to work again in the Oldenburg state service and worked as a bailiff in Varel from 1814 to 1818 . In 1818 he became bailiff and in 1823 senior bailiff in Jever . In 1833 he was appointed to the ducal public library in Oldenburg to relieve the head librarian Ludwig von Halem and to take over the press work from him. Strackerjan thus took over the editing and publication of the journals that were organizationally connected to the library, to which the Oldenburgische Blätter , the Oldenburgischen advertisements , the Oldenburgische Zeitung and the state calendar belonged. In addition, in 1835 he founded the communications from Oldenburg on the theater and other subjects of entertainment. Since December 1836, Strackerjahn continued to control all publications appearing in the city of Oldenburg as censor. In 1839, after Halem's death, Strackerjahn was his successor. When the government ended the organizational connection of the journals it had subsidized with the library in 1844, Strackerjan took over the publication of the Oldenburgische Blätter and the Oldenburgische Zeitung on his own responsibility. In 1847 he took over the business of the senior librarian as acting head and became a member of the library commission.

At the time of the revolution of 1848 , Strackerjan was therefore almost solely responsible for the entire Oldenburg press on the part of the state, as well as the editor, which meant that there were hardly any conflicts between the press and censorship in the Grand Duchy. On the other hand, Strackerjan, as a conservative and supporter of the patriarchal state, dominated public opinion like a monopoly over younger writers and the representatives of liberalism in the Grand Duchy.

Strackerjan dealt with the Oldenburg history. Many contributions to the Oldenburg regional history in Oldenburg newspapers and other magazines come from his pen. In old age he dealt with the history of coins in Oldenburg. Strackerjan was unable to bring the Oldenburg scholarly lexicon to a conclusion.

As a Freemason, he died as an honorary old master and senior of his lodge.

family

Strackerjan married Elisabeth Charlotte b. Mohr (around 1769–1809), the daughter of the Oldenburg businessman Hermann Gerhard Mohr. After her death, on March 13, 1810, he married Sophie Brünings (1789–1863), daughter of the bailiff of the Bentinck estates Diedrich Anton Brüning (1755–1802) in Varel. Strackerjan had fifteen children from both marriages. Of these, Karl (1819–1889) became the school director and Ludwig (1825–1881) became president of the Oldenburg State Parliament and a collector of legends of the region.

Works

  • Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate ratios of all states and trading cities on earth. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1855 (collaboration with Gustav Wagner)
  • Shipping manual. Berndt, 1860
  • Handbook of trade science: with special consideration of the existing conditions in Germany. Pott, 1861
  • Contributions to the history of the city of Jever. Wilhelm Kaiser, Bremen 1836
  • The now applicable Oldenburg particular law in systematic extracts. 3 volumes,
  • State calendar. 1836-1846
  • Repertory of the Oldenburg legislation or general real register of all collections of sovereign ordinances ... Until 1836. 1836–1849,
  • Oldenburg leaves. 1834-1848
  • Messages. 1835-1848
  • Harvest fruits. 1836-1842
  • Repertory of the Oldenburg Legislation. 2 volumes, 1837
  • The partner. Folk calendar. 1841–1845 (editor)
  • Contributions to the history of the city of Jever. 1836
  • Contributions to the history of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. 4 booklets, 1837
  • Oldenburg's festival and jubilation book. 1839
  • History of the printing press in the Duchy of Oldenburg and the rule of Jever. Schulze, Oldenburg 1840 ( fully digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library ).
  • Gerhard Anton von Halem's autobiography. 1840

literature

personal data
SURNAME Strackerjan, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, lawyer, historian and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollhamm
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1848
Place of death Stollhamm