Christoph Friedrich Laage

Christoph Friedrich Laage (born October 19, 1772 in a Dutch factory in Nütschau , † October 19, 1839 in Quickborn ) was a German guardian .

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Christoph Friedrich Laage's ancestors can be traced back to the butcher Joachim Laage, who was baptized on May 3, 1705 in Schönberg and died on August 4, 1789 in Rethfurth in the Bergstedt parish . His sons lived in Holstein and Mecklenburg, their descendants also settled in Denmark and America. Other well-known members of the family are the lay researcher Hans Christian Laage and the painter Wilhelm Laage .

Christoph Friedrich Laage was the son of the landowner Christian Friedrich Laage (around 1732–1801) and his wife Johanna Dorothea, née Kröger, who later married Kräck. He lived as a hegeman in Quickborn and had service lands, for the reclamation of which he earned merit. It was a desert heathland with an area of ​​1000  square rods . For this he received the silver medal of honor of the Schleswig-Holstein Patriotic Society on September 29, 1817.

Christoph Friedrich Laage was married to Anna Abel Müller (1781–1858). The couple had five sons and three daughters, including the adopted Hermann Friedrich Laage (1803–1867), who founded a family of architects in Hamburg . The sons also included Nicolaus Johann Laage (1816–1887), who lived as a lawyer in Lauenburg .

literature

• Georg Laage: Laage, Christoph Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 176–177