Ernst Friedrich Hektor Falcke
Ernst Friedrich Hektor Falcke (also: Ernst Friedrich Hector Falke ; born September 16, 1751 in Darmstadt ; died February 27, 1809 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , local politician and mayor of Hanover, councilor and writer .
Life
Falcke was the son of the Hessian and Hanover state servant Johann Philipp Conrad Falcke . After attending the Lyceum in Hanover, Falcke studied law in Göttingen from 1769 to 1771 without giving up his literary interests. He belonged with Goethe to the Wetzlar knight circle and published a play as a student ( Braitwell , a bourgeois tragedy). In 1773 he was an auditor at the law firm in Hanover and toured Italy and southern Germany in 1774 and 1775. From 1774 until the end of his life, Falcke was intensively involved in the Hanoverian Freemason Lodge Friedrich zum Weißen Pferde . In 1776 he was appointed secret consistorial and judicial councilor, and in 1777 he was appointed councilor.
In 1784 he was elected mayor of the old town of Hanover as the successor to Wilhelm August Alemann . In 1787 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. During his tenure, which lasted until his death in 1809, he was the head of the College of the Poor and the College of the Orphanage. He is described in historical research as a skilled businessman with a knowledge of taste . His grave is in the garden cemetery .
Marriage and offspring
He married Louise Clara Strube (* December 17, 1761 in Hanover; † December 21, 1784 ibid), daughter of Christian Ludwig Strube and Ernestine Dorothea Ebell. They had the children:
- Georg Friedrich Falcke (* August 7, 1783; † September 20, 1850); from 1832 Freiherr von Falcke
- Hector Phillip (born June 29, 1780)?
- Sophie Ernestine Louise (March 22, 1782; † January 16, 1876; oo in October 1814 Levin Anton Wilhelm Benecke (1776–1837); son of Ernst Phillip Benecke (1731–1794), merchant in Hanover ⚭ 1761 Johanna Cath. Dammann (1742-1817))
- Friedrich Georg
- Ernst August Georg (born November 29, 1784)
Works
- Documented gender connection between their two high houses, Habsburg and Fürstenberg , Wetzlar 1768.
- Braitwell. A bourgeois game of mourning, in one act , Giessen 1769 (or 1770). (Digitized at Google Books)
literature
- Klaus Mlynek : Falcke (falcon) (1), Ernst Friedrich Hector . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 114.
- Literature by and about Ernst Friedrich Hektor Falcke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ferdinand Frensdorff : Falcke, Georg Friedrich Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 543-546. (detailed mention in the genealogy of his son) .
- Georg Forster : Letters to Ernst Friedrich Hector Falcke. Newly found Forsteriana from the Gold, Gold and Rosicrucian times . Ed. U. with an introduction by Michael Ewert and Hermann Schüttler. Georg Forster Studies, Supplement 4. Kassel University Press 2009. ISBN 978-3-89958-485-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ n.v . : Heinemann, Konrad Christoph in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on August 21, 2020
- ^ Friedrich Voigts: History of the Friedrich box to the white horse. In: Freemasonry in the Oriente of Hanover. Reminder sheets for the festivals of January 14th and 15th, 1857, Hannover 1859, pp. 1–52, here p. 18 .
- ↑ Johanna May: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Lines of development of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 , Hanover 2000, p. 162.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falcke, Ernst Friedrich Hektor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Falke, Ernst Friedrich Hector |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1751 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1809 |
| Place of death | Hanover |