Gerhard Schröder (politician, 1659)
Gerhard Schröder (born August 12, 1659 in Hamburg ; † January 28, 1723 there ) was a German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.
Life
Gerhard Schröder was the son of a Hamburg merchant. He first studied theology at the universities of Wittenberg and Rostock. He switched to law in Rostock. He continued his studies in Leipzig in 1682 and received his doctorate in both rights at the University of Altdorf in 1685. A longer grand tour followed. An assassination attempt was carried out on him near Milan, but the bullet ricocheted off his well-filled wallet and was ineffective. After this trip he became a lawyer in Hamburg. Despite his distance from the civil unrest in Hamburg at the end of the 17th century, he was unconstitutionally elected to the Hamburg Senate by the Hamburg citizenship in 1698. He did not accept the election until 1699, when the Senate in turn voted for him. As a councilor, Schröder proved so much that he was appointed mayor as early as 1703. On his death he was minted a commemorative coin by the Senate .
Gerhard Schröder was effective as a writer both in terms of legal history and genealogy. However, many of his manuscripts in the Hamburg city archive burned in the Hamburg fire (1842).
The Mayor of Hamburg Rütger Rulant III. (1665–1742) was his brother-in-law.
Fonts
- Fasti Proconsulares et Consulares Hamburgenses sive series continua duplex chronologica atq; alphabetica Dominorum Proconsulum Consulumque Reip. Inclytae Hamb. from AC MCCXCIX ad MDCCIX cui adjuncta est per eorundem temporum decursum Dnn. Syndicorum, Physicorum ac Secretariorum ejusdem Reip. accurata Recensio , Typis Reumanninianis, Hamburg 1709
- Fasti Pro-Consulares & Consulares Hamburgenses, Secundis curis Auctiores From a. CMCCXCII. ad MDCCX. , Spiring, Hamburg 1710 ( Digitalisat of Goettingen )
literature
- Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Volume 7, No. 3568
- Otto Beneke : Schröder, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 512 f.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1659 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1723 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |