Georg Heinrich Gercken
Georg Heinrich Gercken (* 1690 in Lübeck ; † February 7, 1744 there ) was a lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Georg Heinrich Gercken was the son of the mayor of Lübeck, Sebastian Gercken . He studied law in Kiel , Jena and Leipzig from 1706 to 1713. His Grand Tour took him to London , Paris , Strasbourg and Vienna . He also visited Prague , Nuremberg , Wetzlar with the Imperial Court of Justice and the Netherlands . In 1718 he became council secretary in his hometown Lübeck, in 1734 he rose to become the first council secretary ( protonotary ). In 1735 he became councilor of the city. During his term of office as councilor, the self-completion of the Lübeck council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 . Gercken married a daughter of the Lübeck mayor Daniel Müller .
As administrator of the Schabbel Scholarship Foundation , Gercken conducted extensive correspondence with August Hermann Francke .
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 867
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91–168.
Individual evidence
- ^ Evidence in the Kalliope network
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gercken, Georg Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1744 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |