Georg Wilhelm Detharding (lawyer)

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Georg Wilhelm Detharding

Georg Wilhelm Detharding (born January 18, 1701 in Güstrow , † December 22, 1782 in Lübeck ) was a lawyer and mayor of Lübeck .

Life

Sarcophagus and epitaph Dethardings in St. Katharinen

Detharding was one of the sons of the professor of medicine at the University of Rostock , Georg Detharding . His older brother Georg Christoph Detharding became a well-known German physician and professor at the University of Bützow ; he founded a Mecklenburg dynasty of physicians. The younger brother Georg August Detharding became professor of law at the Christianeum in Altona and syndic of the cathedral chapter at Lübeck cathedral . Georg Wilhelm Detharding first attended the cathedral school in Güstrow and then studied law in Rostock, Leipzig and Halle (Saale). Then he looked for his first practical experience at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. After completing his doctorate at the University of Rostock, he first became a lawyer there. In 1735 he moved to Lübeck, initially worked as a lawyer again and was elected to the city council in 1750. As envoy, he represented the city in missions in Hanover, Schleswig and Rendsburg. In 1765 he was appointed mayor in the council . As mayor, he welcomed King Gustav III, who was traveling from Spa to Stockholm via Travemünde, in 1780 . of Sweden .

Detharding was the son-in-law of Lübeck's mayor Johann Adolph Krohn . He was buried in the last chapel annex to the Katharinenkirche , the Detharding chapel in the western yoke of the south aisle, built in 1761 . There is a Latin inscription on the late baroque sarcophagus.

Literature and Notes

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 890.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2055 .

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  1. ↑ First enrollment in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ In 1747 the dispute over the Möllner Pertinenzien and the exclaves in Lauenburg was settled in a settlement with the Electorate of Hanover .
  3. ↑ Fehling No. 860
  4. ↑ Text and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Misunderstood Treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 170. ISBN 3795004756

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SURNAME Detharding, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1782
Place of death Lübeck