Heinrich Gustav Plitt (politician, 1777)

Heinrich Gustav Plitt (born September 8, 1777 in Neukirchen (Mecklenburg); † June 5, 1841 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Plitt was the son of pastor Johann Herbold Plitt (1732–1807) in Neukirchen, who originally came from the Hessian Wetter , and is now part of Klein Belitz , a promoter of Mecklenburg potato cultivation. At the age of 15, he began commercial training with the businessman Daniel Jacobj in Lübeck, whose eldest daughter, Sophia Friederika, he married in 1803. Her younger brother Johann Daniel Jacobj was his brother-in-law. During the French period in Lübeck in 1811 he was the controller of the Octroy , i.e. the excise . In 1817 he was elected from the ranks of the Schonenfahrer to the Lübeck council and was there as councilor member of the bet , the finance department and the military department.

Plitt was the church leader in St. Petri . He was one of the co-founders of the German life insurance company (1828) and made a contribution to the shipping connection between Lübeck and St. Petersburg .

His son Heinrich Gustav Plitt was also the city's senator, another son Karl Gustav Plitt was pastor at St. Georg in Lübeck-Genin and wrote the biography of his father. His son Gustav Leopold Plitt became a professor of church history in Erlangen.

literature

• CG Plitt: CV and funeral speech in memory of the benevolent Senator Heinrich Gustav Plitt , Rahtgens, Lübeck 1841
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914 , Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1915, No. 23 Commons digitized
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeckische Ratslinie , Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1925, No. 965 Unchanged reprint Lübeck 1978. ISBN 3795005000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 7664 .