Friedrich Sieveking

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Friedrich Sieveking, detail from a watercolor sketch by Carl Julius Milde 1834

Friedrich Sieveking (born April 28, 1798 in Hamburg ; † December 25, 1872 there ) was a lawyer and first mayor of Hamburg.

family

Friedrich Sieveking family burial site in Ohlsdorf cemetery
Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Friedrich Sieveking was the fifth child of the wealthy businessman Georg Heinrich Sieveking and his wife Johanna Margaretha Sieveking . His brother Karl (1787–1847) was a lawyer and Hamburg Senate Syndicate .

In 1824 Friedrich Sieveking married Louise von Hennings, daughter of the administrator of Rantzau August Adolph von Hennings . Sieveking's youngest son, Ernst Friedrich Sieveking, was a senator for some time before becoming president of the newly established Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . Sieveking's daughter Henriette married the businessman Valentin Lorenz Meyer in 1850 .

Life

Sieveking grew up in Hamburg. He studied law and did his doctorate in Göttingen. Sieveking was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on June 8, 1821 . In 1817 he took part in the fraternity's Wartburg festival.

On January 22, 1832, he was accepted into the Hamburg council and worked from 1840 to 1846 as a bailiff in Ritzebüttel . He then alternated with Heinrich Kellinghusen , who was his greatest adversary, chairman of the higher court and chairman of the military authority. After the constitutional reform of 1859 Sieveking remained in the council, now known as the Hamburg Senate , while Kellinghusen, who had rejected the reform, moved to the higher court, which was separate from the Senate. Sieveking was appointed First Mayor in the following years 1861 and 1862, Second Mayor in 1864 and 1867, and First Mayor again in 1865 and 1868. On July 1, 1869 Sieveking resigned from the Senate.

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square S 25 / S 26 (area between Waldstrasse and Kapellenstrasse), there is a tombstone for Friedrich Sieveking (lower area) and his mother in the Sieveking family grave complex; In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, the mayor is reminded of Friedrich Sieveking on the double-sided collective grave .

literature

  • Hamburg Gender Book Volume 13, German Gender Book Volume 200, year 1996, p. 509

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Sieveking  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Address 1872: “Sieveking, Friedrich, Dr. d. R., Mayor, gr. Theaterstr. 35 “in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joist Grolle: Meyer, Valentin Lorenz . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 286-287 .
  2. ^ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 324