Friedrich von Graffen
Friedrich von Graffen (born November 7, 1745 in Hamburg ; † March 17, 1820 there ) was a German lawyer and mayor of Hamburg.
origin
Friedrich von Graffen descends from the German noble family Graffen . His father was Friedrich von Graffen (1701–1773), who was, among other things, councilor in Hamburg and a banker, and his mother Anna Amsinck (1714–1784), who came from the well-known Hamburg Amsinck family.
Life
Friedrich von Graffen visited the Johanneum in Hamburg from 1758 . He then went in April 1766 Göttingen to there Jura to study and where he acquired the 1769 promotion. Via Wetzlar and Leiden , where he heard lectures on Montesquieu , he returned to Hamburg in 1771 and was a lawyer there . In 1781 he became a councilor, and on November 20, 1801 for mayor elected. In 1797 he went as ambassador to St. Petersburg to I. Emperor Paul wishing to his accession happiness and the confirmation of privileges for the Hamburg Trade catch. He was deposed by Emperor Napoleon I on February 13, 1811 , but reinstated on March 18, 1813 until his death in 1820. In 1813/14 he had made a special contribution to restoring the old constitution.
Honors
The tomb of Friedrich von Graffens is located in the open-air tomb museum Heckengarten on the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , in addition, in the area of the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery on the (II.) Collective tomb mayor commemorates him and other mayors of Hamburg. In 1820 a mayor's penny was issued on the occasion of his death.
Von-Graffen-Strasse in Hamburg was named after Friedrich von Graffen on June 23, 1959 .
family
On August 26, 1777, Friedrich von Graffen married Sophia Schultz (1760–1788), daughter of the Hamburg senior citizen Jürgen Schultz. They had two daughters and four sons, of whom only the daughters and one son, Georg, the father survived. Georg became council secretary and protonotary in Hamburg in 1826. Georg von Graffen wrote a biography about his father in 1820, which appeared in the same year.
literature
- Gurlitt, Johann: Vita Friderici a Graffen, Juris utriusque Licentiati, Consulis nuper in Republica Hamburgensium magnifici. , Hamburg 1824
- Georg von Graffen: In memory of Friedrich von Graffen Lt., oldest mayor of Hamburg , Hamburg 1820
- Wolfgang Dürr: Over 1000 years of Graffen - Dürr , Stuttgart, 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graffen, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1745 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1820 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |