Franz Friedrich Droste (politician, 1784)

Franz Friedrich Droste (born September 5, 1784 in Bremen , † September 21, 1849 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Droste was the son of the senator and lawyer of the same name Franz Friedrich Droste (1753-1817) and the merchant's daughter Wilhelmine Droste, nee Menken (1762-1839). After attending the reformed Latin school and the illustrious grammar school , he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1803 and at the University of Marburg from 1805 . He then worked as a lawyer in Bremen. During the French period in Bremen , he became the managing director of public protection. He received his doctorate in 1814 for Dr. jur. and served as an auditor in the Bremen military in 1815 .

In 1817 he became Senator of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as his father's successor. As such, he was director of the Poor Institute and head of various offices. He was also a member of the higher court and together with a mayor Scholarch , so head of the public school system. He was on the first twelve-person founding board of the “Spar-kasse” from 1825 and supported the construction of the Bremen city theater .

Droste lived at 5 Sandstrasse ( forward house ). He was married in his first marriage in 1812 to the merchant's daughter Anna Miesegaes (1785-1813) and, after her death, in his second marriage in 1815 with the senator's daughter Rebecca Luise Kulenkampff (1791-1849). His son of the same name, the businessman Franz Friedrich Droste, married Caecilie Caroline Adami, daughter of Senator Johann Helfrich Adami , in 1851 .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .