Diedrich Stolterfoht

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Diedrich Stolterfoht (born October 14, 1754 in Lübeck ; † July 6, 1836 there ) was a Lübeck councilor and manufacturer .

Life

Diedrich Stolterfoht; Portrait of a youth around 1770

Diedrich Stolterfoht was a businessman and owner of two factories for soap and wheat starch . He was the elderly man of the Schonen driver . After Lübeck was incorporated into the French Empire , he was appointed to the provisional municipal council on February 13, 1811 by the prefect of the department of the Elbe estuary and was accepted into the final municipal council on July 11. On June 25, 1813, he and 33 other citizens of Lübeck were deported as a French hostage to Hamburg, from where he did not return until December.

After the liberation of Lübeck, Stolterfoht was elected to the council on February 28, 1814 and accepted into the committee of the head of St. Marien . At the end of 1824 he got into business and financial difficulties that forced him to resign on January 5, 1825 from his office as councilor and head of the Marienkirche. Until his death in 1836 he lived in modest circumstances as an inspector of the Johanniskloster .

Diedrich Stolterfoht was married to Elisabeth Sabina Gaedertz .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814–1914. Lübeck 1915, No. 20.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 962.
  • Hermann Gustaf Stolterfoht: News about the Stolterfoht family . Max Schmidt publishing house, Lübeck 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 63 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )