Friedrich Wilhelm Grabau

Friedrich Wilhelm Grabau (born July 6, 1783 in Lübeck , † August 21, 1839 in Seesen ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Grabau was the son of the Lübeck businessman Johann Peter Christopher Grabau († 1807), whose trading business he took over as owner in 1809. During the French period in Lübeck in July 1813, Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout appointed him second adjoint Maire to succeed the late JH Köppen . After the arrest of Maire Friedrich Adolph von Heintze and other members of the Lübeck municipal council , who were taken hostage in Hamburg, Grabau ran the city. Grabau was arrested by the French on November 29, 1813 and also taken to Hamburg on December 4. He was released there on December 12th. When he returned to Lübeck, the citizens appointed him to the administrative commission.

As a merchant, Grabau was elected senior man by the Schonenfahrers in 1815 . As such, he was elected to the city council on June 15, 1817. In the council he worked in the areas of taxes, the poor and in the field of betting, so the trade inspection. Grabau made a name for himself by building roads in the Lübeck countryside. Almost all of the road construction projects here were built during the time he was in charge of the road construction deputation. In this capacity, he also negotiated the construction of a new highway to Hamburg through the Lauenburg or Holstein area as the city's envoy to the Royal Danish Court in Copenhagen from July to November 1832 , which only became a reality in 1841 with the Altona-Lübecker-Chaussee . He died on a journey home to Lübeck near Seesen am Harz, where he was also buried.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914. Lübeck 1915, No. 24.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ † December 8, 1812