Friedrich Max Meyer

Friedrich Max Meyer (born December 5, 1819 in Hamburg ; † September 23, 1897 there ) was a German businessman .

Life

Meyer was the son of Hamburg Senator Georg Christian Lorenz Meyer (1787–1866) and his wife Caroline Antoinette, née Barley (1795–1833). The merchants Valentin Lorenz Meyer (1817–1901) and Arnold Otto Meyer (1825–1913) were his brothers. He ran a wine shop in Hamburg under the company GC Lorenz Meyer , which he had taken over from his father.

In the Hamburg citizen military he served in 1846 as a lieutenant and in 1849 as a captain of the 3rd company of the 2nd battalion . In 1846 and 1847 he was director of the "Directorate of Young People United for the Good of the Poor". In Hamburg's St. Catherine's Church , Meyer served as adjunct from 1849 to 1852 , from 1853 to 1870 as a hundred eighty and from 1871 to 1887 as headmaster. He was also a member of various deputations and commissions in Hamburg and was a member of the Higher Court from 1877 to 1879 and of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1880 to 1891 . Meyer was an extraordinary member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Meyer was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1861 to 1864, 1876, 1877 and 1880 to 1883 .

Friedrich Max Meyer married Sophie Wesselhoeft (1829–1876) on June 3, 1848. From this marriage three sons and two daughters were born.

literature

• Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 183 .
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book, Genealogical manual of middle-class families . tape 21 . Starke, Görlitz 1912, p. 343-345 .