Friedrich Johann Meyer

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Friedrich Johann Meyer , also Meyer-Malchow (born October 8, 1814 in Plau , † September 15, 1882 in Rostock ; full name: Friedrich Johann Carl Simon Meyer ) was a German lawyer, mayor, parliamentarian and minister of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Memorial stone for Mayor Friedrich Meyer, Malchow (Mecklenburg)

Life

Friedrich Johann Meyer was a younger son of the tax collector Johann Meyer (* 1772) and his wife Albertina Johanna Behm (* 1784). He apparently spent his childhood and youth in the small Mecklenburg town of Grabow , where his mother had moved after the parents' divorce in April 1818.

Meyer studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Jena and Heidelberg. In Jena he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in 1830 and was a participant in the Nuremberg Boys' Day in the same year . After the exams, he settled in Malchow as a lawyer and notary . From 1841 to 1849 he was mayor and magistrate of the city of Malchow and represented it at the Mecklenburg Landtag. He was particularly interested in questions of hydraulic engineering and was a member of the Drainage Commission in 1846. Meyer ordered the construction of a dam between the city and the Malchow monastery from 1844 to 1848 , for which a memorial stone was erected on the dam in 1875, which is still there today.

Friedrich Johann Meyer was a member of the Mecklenburg parliament in the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 76 (Malchow) in 1848/49 . Here he joined the faction of the right . During the revolution of 1848 Meyer had the "uprising" in Malchow bloodily suppressed by a squadron of dragoons. In 1849/50 he was Councilor of State and Minister of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , and in 1851 interim counsel for the Schwerin law firm. From 1851 to 1880 Meyer was the syndic of the Hanseatic City of Rostock . He died in 1882 of internal injuries sustained when he fell from his riding horse.

Honors

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6577 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 95-96.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the 1819 census list different: October 7th
  2. ↑ In the census of 1819 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin he counts after an older brother as Carl Johann Meyer (born October 7, 1814 in Plau) to Grabow in the mother's household.
  3. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account. 1850, p. 65

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Friedrich Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Friedrich Johann Carl Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, mayor, parliamentarian and minister of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Plau
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1882
Place of death Rostock