Eberhard Christian Compe

Eberhard Christian Compe (* December 22, 1788 in Göttingen ; † December 9, 1867 in Harburg , today Hamburg ) was the first civil servant of the Harburg office from 1846 onwards.

Life

Eberhard Christian Compe was the son of the 1807 deceased bailiff Compe in office Nienburg in Nienburg / Weser . From autumn 1807 he studied law at the University of Göttingen and was one of the founders of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen on January 18, 1809. He left Göttingen after the gendarme affair in August 1809. After completing his studies , Eberhard Christian Compe entered the Royal Hanoverian Service. As an official assessor , he was interim administrator in the Artlenburg office from 1824 to 1837 . After about 10 years as an assessor for the city of Harburg, Compe became a Harburg bailiff in 1846, and in 1853 a senior bailiff , the first official in the Harburg district . With the hydraulic engineering director Johann Heinrich Blohm , Eberhard Christian Compe was a member of the Harburg port construction commission. The commission was in charge of the expansion of the Harburg port . The expansion of the port continued the industrialization of Harburg. Compe was buried in the old cemetery in Harburg .

The city of Harburg an der Elbe made Compe an honorary citizen in 1859 . In 1950 a street was named after Eberhard Christian Compe.

Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, No. 17.
Adalbert Holtz: The street names of Harburg along with city history tables and a street map . Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1970, DNB 457023562 .
Sabine Knoll: A short tour of the Harburg Old Cemetery . Helms-Museum, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-931429-21-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Compe, Eberhard Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Compe, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Honorary citizen in Harburg, today part of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1867
Place of death	Harburg