Gotthard Gottschalk from Wickede

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Gotthard Gottschalk von Wickede (* 1684 in Lübeck ; † February 14, 1737 there ) was a lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Wickede came from one of the Lübeck patrician families. He was the son of the landowner Gottschalk Anton von Wickede and a grandson of the Lübeck councilor Thomas Heinrich von Wickede . He studied law in Jena , Helmstedt and in the Netherlands . In 1710 he became a member of the patrician circle society in Lübeck. He owned the Lübschen estates Kastorf and Bliestorf in Lauenburg. In 1735 he became a councilor in Lübeck, for which Caspar Heinrich Starck dedicated a congratulatory letter to him. The family lost both goods shortly after his death in 1737. The rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck Johann Henrich von Seelen gave the funeral speech for him.

Wickede was married to a daughter of the mayor of Lüneburg, Hermann Friedrich von Witzendorff .

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