Heinrich Gerhard Heineken

Heinrich Gerhard Heineken (born January 16, 1801 in Bremen ; † January 31, 1874 in Bremen) was a lawyer and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Heineken was the son of the doctor, city ​​physician and professor Johannes Heineken (1761-1851) and his wife Johanne (1767-1813).
He was married to the wine merchant's daughter Maria Caroline Antonia Elisabeth Poll (1810–1840) and in his second marriage to Caroline Anna Catharina Piepenberger. The important Bremen Mayor Christian Abraham Heineken was his uncle.

Heineken completed his school days in Bremen and studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1820 , from 1821 at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Jena , and he obtained his doctorate in 1823 in Göttingen. jur. He worked as a lawyer in Bremen.
From 1837 to 1849 he was the successor to Arnold Gerhard Deneken Bremen Senator; At times he was in charge of the police force. He is one of an early liberal movement in Bremen, to which the editor Carl Ludwig Iken and the lawyers Karl Theodor Oelrichs , Wilhelm Focke (1805-1865) and Hinrich Gerhard Schumacher were counted. In 1849 he became president of the Bremen Commercial Court.

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).