Friedrich Langerfeldt

Jakob Friedrich Langerfeldt (born April 29, 1773 in Hanover ; † December 15, 1848 in Braunschweig ) was a German textile merchant, finance advisor and Freemason .

Life

Friedrich Langerfeldt was the son of a businessman and from 1788 completed a commercial apprenticeship in Braunschweig at the company Hauß Wwe, Möllenbeck & Co., a textile and manufacture goods store , where his father had already trained before him. On October 12, 1800 he married Philippine Louise Wilhelmine, b. Köppe (1778-1857). Langerfeldt's father-in-law then signed his cloth and fashion business at Neue Straße 11 to him. The later lawyer and politician Gustav Langerfeldt emerged from the marriage.

In addition to his company, Langerfeldt was also involved in public affairs in the city of Braunschweig. From 1805 he supported his cousin Johann Anton Leisewitz in his reform of the Brunswick poor relief . The hitherto ducal poor institutions could thus be converted into state institutions. During the Braunschweig French era , Langerfeldt took care of billeting the French occupation troops.

His great commitment in addition to his actual entrepreneurial activity ultimately led to his being accepted into the civil service. After the end of the French occupation of Brunswick at the end of 1813, he was appointed by the Brunswick state government on March 26th, 1818 as chief commissioner at the Princely City Court. This appointment was followed in 1820 by the state tax council for the Braunschweigische Landschaft and in 1825 as a member of the city ​​council . In this role Langerfeldt was responsible for poor and tax matters. In 1832 he was finally promoted to the secret finance council in the ducal finance college.

Langerfeldt was accepted into the Braunschweig Freemason Lodge Carl to the Crowned Pillar in 1812 and was its master of the chair from 1818 to 1848 .

Around 1820 he probably bought a plot of land at today's Löwenwall 16, which in turn was acquired in 1880 by the sugar manufacturer Louis Gerloff and on which he had a villa named after him built.

In the Braunschweig address book for the year 1847 he is listed as a secret finance councilor, a member of the ducal finance college, a member of the board of directors of the ducal hospital and maternity hospital and the institutions for the poor in Braunschweig as well as a curator of the " Foundation for the memory of the 6th February 1794 ”.

literature

• Stephanie Borrmann: Langerfeldt, Jakob Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 369 .
• Jakob Friedrich Langerfeldt, Heinrich Mack: Hamburg and the Hamburgers in 1809. Letters from a Brunswick. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 21. 1916, pp. 63-81 ( agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de curriculum vitae pp. 63/64).
• Theodor Müller : City Director Wilhelm Bode. Life and work. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 29, Braunschweig 1963.

Web links

• Correspondence between Jakob Friedrich Langerfeldt and Georg Kestner kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de (estate of Georg Kestner senior and junior)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Hagen et al .: Freemasons in Germany. Freemasonry in Braunschweig. Exhibition catalog, publications of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseums 16, Braunschweig 1978, p. 42 (name there partly incorrectly given as Johann Friedrich Langerfeldt).
2. ↑ Tobias Henkel, Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation (ed.): Monument with garden. From Gerloff's villa to the house of the Brunswick Foundations. P. 14.
3. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1847 . 35th edition. Gebr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1847, OCLC 657692014 , p. 66, 166, 186 ( books.google.de ).