Heinrich Lentz

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Heinrich Ernst Lentz (born November 5, 1737 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † August 19, 1823 ibid) was a German consistorial councilor in the service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Lentz was the fourth son of the urban and rural physicist Friedrich Lentz (1695–1758) and his second wife Ida Catharina born. of sticks. After visiting the Old Grammar School Oldenburg he studied four semesters Jura at the University of Göttingen . He then got a job as an auditor with the Danish National Regiment Oldenburg in 1760 and switched to civil administration in 1767. At that time he was appointed consistorial assessor and represented the legal interests and affairs of the churches in the country as Advocatus Piarum Causarum . In 1776 he was promoted to the chancellery.

In his official position, Lentz was significantly involved in the efforts of the Oldenburg government to reform the poor system previously supported by the church and to integrate it into the state administration as an efficiently organized and centrally controlled branch. From 1784 he was a member of the commission for the establishment of the poor . The commission worked out a detailed organizational draft, which formed the basis for the poor order put into effect by Duke Peter I on August 1, 1786. On the same day Lentz became a member of the new General Directorate for the Poor, which, as the central state authority, monitored and directed the entire poor system of the duchy. In 1792 he was appointed consistorial councilor and from 1795 to 1810, in addition to his official duties, he also took over the publication of the Oldenburg state calendar. It is not known whether Lentz stayed in the country during the Oldenburg French era or accompanied Peter I into his Russian exile. After the duke's return, he became chairman of the general directorate in December 1813 and at the same time a member of a provisional government commission which, after the end of the French occupation, acted as a provisional central government authority and initiated the reorganization of the administration. In September 1814 Lentz became a member of the government college. He held this office beyond his 50th anniversary in 1817 until his death.

family

Lentz married Christiane Henriette born on September 27, 1768. Keller (1750–1803) married, the daughter of a major . The marriage had six daughters and four sons, including Friedrich Uffo Dietrich (1769-1854), who later also became the Oldenburg chancellery director and state councilor. The daughter Charlotte Friederike Ernestine married the Protestant pastor Gerhard Steinfeld in 1797 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Wintermann: Steinfeld, Gerhard. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 698 f. ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Lentz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lentz, Heinrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Konsistorialrat in Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1823
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)