Georg Heinrich Olbers

Georg Heinrich Olbers (born August 11, 1790 in Bremen , † May 26, 1861 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Olbers was the son of the doctor and astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758-1840) and his second wife Anna Adelheid Lürssen (1765-1820). He was the grandson of the Lutheran pastor and cathedral preacher Johann Georg Olbers (1716–1872). He was unmarried.
He completed his school days in Bremen at a private elementary school and at the Lutheran Cathedral School and Athenaeum Bremen and from 1803 Lyceum.

From 1809 and from 1814 he studied law at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1815 in Göttingen. jur. During the French period in Bremen in 1812, he accompanied his father to Paris and was here as a court auditor in the French service and at the beginning of 1813 at the prefecture in the Département des Bouches de l'Elbe in Stade .

From 1816 to 1819 he was the private secretary of Senator Johann Smidt , who was Bremen's envoy to the Federal Assembly (so-called Bundestag) in Frankfurt am Main. He then worked as a clerk at courts in Bremen. In 1822 he became the second Syndicus of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as the successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Heineken , who became a senator.
From 1825 to 1860 he was the successor to Heinrich Lampe Bremen Senator. From 1834 to 1860 he was the head of the Bremen police . In 1826 a theater association was founded by him . a. set up a theater and music library. Foundations and legacies from the private property of the members of the association, many of whom - such as Senator Hieronymus Klugkist , businessman Johann Heinrich Albers and Senator Olbers , formed the basis of the collection of the Kunstverein in Bremen , which was founded in 1823 .

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).