Gebhard Levin Lüdecke

Gebhard Levin Lüdecke (born February 27, 1662 in Calbe (Saale) ; † November 27, 1732 in Braunschweig ) was royal court counselor and assessor of the court court, dean of the princely monastery of St. Cyriacus, the city of Braunschweig's oldest mayor and syndicus .

family

Gebhard Levin Lüdecke was the son of the electoral Brandenburg bailiff to Giebichenstein Jacob Lüdecke and Maria Catharina, born. Lemmer. On July 25, 1683 he married in Berlin (I.) Lucia Elisabeth Elsholtz (born January 17, 1660 in Cölln ad Spree, † June 4, 1684 Halle (Saale)), daughter of Johann Sigismund Elsholtz . (II.) Maria Elisabeth Richter (born April 26, 1665, † July 3, 1717). (III.) Lucia Sabine Schrader.

Life

He was born in Calbe, where his father was Syndicus at the time. He attended the grammar school in Halle under Praetorius and at the age of 16 went to the University of Frankfurt ad Oder, where he heard Samuel Stryk , and under whom he disputed de cera rubra et sacro encausto . Then court master with a young gentleman from Blaspiel , who later became royal. prussia. Became budget minister. He went on trips to France, England and Holland and came back at the end of 1682. In 1683 he replaced his father as the judiciary in Giebichenstein. In 1689 he was appointed mayor and lawyer to Braunschweig. In 1694 he became canonicus of the St. Cyriacus monastery, 1703 assessor of the court in Wolfenbüttel, 1707 dean of the St. Cyriacus monastery. On January 10, 1730 he resigned from his office as Syndicus, in which his son Johann Gebhard succeeded him. in April 1730 he also resigned as mayor. He died at the age of 70 after having been mayor and lawyer of the city of Braunschweig for over 40 years.

progeny

(I.) Johann Gebhard Lüdecke (1684–1734). (II.) 1. Levin Christian Lüdecke (1686–1735), 2. Johann Friedrich Lüdecke (1689–?), 3. Dorothea Elisabeth Lüdecke (1692–1722), married to Martin von Berghauer.

literature

• Johann Christoph Dreyhaupt: Description of the hall circle.
• Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (Ed.): The Braunschweiger Mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 .