Gustav Lührsen

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Gustav Lührsen (born March 9, 1805 in Hamburg ; † May 2, 1868 ibid) was a Hamburg lawyer and the initiator of a uniform German land registry.

Life

Lührsen was the son of the Hamburg lawyer Conrad Otto Lührsen (1770-1804) and his wife Johanna Henriette Keller from Magdeburg (1773-1850). On April 27, 1837, he married Charlotte Jauch (* 1811 in Hamburg; † 1872 in Constantinople), daughter of the merchant Johann Christian Jauch senior .

"Gustav Lührsen, Dr. 1809-1868 ", collective grave of state servants ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Lührsen attended the Johanneum in Hamburg and studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg . In Göttingen in 1825 he and the later Hamburg mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen became a co-founder of the Corps Hansea, which was also known as Corps Hammonia, for a short time . In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in both rights . Like his father, Lührsen initially worked as a lawyer , but then entered the service of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, where he became the first civil servant in the mortgage administration in 1843. He was the author of the Hamburg mortgage regulation. With his writing “The City of Hamburg Heritage and Pension Book or Property Ownership and Mortgage Book Regulations - A Draft Law” (Hamburg 1860 by Nestler and Melle), which he presented to the 5th German Lawyers' Conference, he gave the impetus for the land register order later applicable in the German Reich .

For many years Lührsen was director of the Harmonie von 1789 eV society in Hamburg.

In Hamburg is on the Ohlsdorf cemetery on the collection plate Tomb civil servants of Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery to "Gustav Lührsen, Dr. 1809-1868 ”.

literature

  • Gustav Lührsen in: Carl R. Wilhelm Klose, Hans Schröder, Friedrich August Cropp, Carl R. Wilhelm Klose, AH Kellinghauser, Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Volume 4, 1866, p. 592

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Timotheus von Spittler, Johannes Gurlitt, Cornelius Müller, lectures on the history of the papacy: in five programs, and an appendix of three programs , 1828, p. 41
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 71 , 3.
  3. ^ Antonio Esposito: The emergence of the Australian property register law (Torrens system) - a reception of Hamburg particular law ?. Berlin 2005, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Lührsen, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, head of the Hamburg mortgage administration
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 9, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1868
Place of death Hamburg