Friedrich Hartwig

Friedrich Heinrich Johannes Hartwig (* 1832 in Lübeck ; † April 20, 1907 there ) was a German businessman and member of the Lübeck citizenship.

Life

Friedrich Hartwig came from a family of craftsmen in Lübeck. His ancestors, most recently his grandfather who owned next to the castle gate establishment situated Marstall wrought against the imperial road .

After completing his school education and a commercial apprenticeship, at the age of 22, he took over the commercial business in Grosse Burgstrasse, which his late father had founded on April 1, 1828 . The company was a wholesale with hardware and haberdashery ; its main customers came from Denmark .

In 1879 he withdrew from business into private life and devoted himself to numerous honorary positions . Since 1878 he has been a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and the Geographical Society , civil deputy to the invoice revision deputation, the finance department and the administrative authority for municipal community institutions, as well as a member of the board of directors of the savings and loan fund , of the Holy Spirit Hospital and the merchant widow's fund. In the administrative authority he was responsible for bonds of the bonds of the city of Lübeck.

He belonged to the Lübeck citizenship from 1879 to 1903.

Hartwig was the head of his parish church, the Jakobikirche , and its deputy in the churchyard and burial authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

literature

• Friedrich Hartwig †. , in: Lübeckische Blätter 49 (1907), p. 262f