Christian Theodor Overbeck

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Theodor Rehbenitz : Portrait of Christian Theodor Overbeck (1833)

Christian Theodor Overbeck (born May 16, 1818 in Lübeck ; † March 23, 1880 there ) was a lawyer and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Overbeck was the son of the judge at the Higher Appeal Court of the Four Free Cities Christian Gerhard Overbeck . He attended the Katharineum until graduation at Easter 1838 (together with Heinrich Theodor Behn ). After studying law and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. jur. Overbeck became a lawyer and notary in his hometown in 1843. In 1850 he was appointed Secretary of the Senate. In 1870 he was elected senator. He worked from 1873 to 1880 as President of the Churchyard and Funeral Commission, the Central Poor Deputation (1871–1876) and the City and Country Office (1878–1880). He bequeathed the artistic legacy of the painters and draftsmen Friedrich Overbeck and Theodor Rehbenitz to the museums of the city of Lübeck, today in the Behnhaus Museum .

He was married to Charlotte Krüger, daughter of the Lübeck Senator Joachim Friedrich Krüger . Christian Theodor Overbeck was a grandson of Lübeck's mayor Christian Adolph Overbeck .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Lübeckische Blätter. Twenty-second year No. March 24th, 1880, Lübeck City Library
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907, digitized version ), No. 352
  3. ^ Gerhard Ahrens , How Lübeck came to his Overbeck collection. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 175, Issue 7, April 10, 2010
  4. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 986
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Christian Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1880
Place of death Lübeck