Hermann Adolph Wilcken

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Hermann Adolph Wilcken (born February 13, 1730 in Lübeck ; † February 18, 1801 there ) was a German lawyer. From 1784 until his death he was Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

Life

Hermann Adolph Wilcken was a son of the pallbearer at the Jakobikirche Hinrich Wilhelm Wilcken.

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and from Easter 1747 studied law at the University of Göttingen . After a triennium , but without a formal qualification, he returned to Lübeck in 1750 and joined the city as a substitute for the council chancellery. In 1753 he was appointed senior court procurator .

On February 23, 1784, the city council elected him as the successor of Christian David Evers, who died in December 1783, as the second council syndic next to Carl Henrich Dreyer ; on March 8th he received his certificate of appointment and was sworn in. According to Antjekathrin Graßmann, his rise was “an unusual case of social mobility” in urban society in the 18th century. Wilcken's term of office fell during the troubled times of the French Revolution and the first coalition wars . In the run-up to the Peace of Basel , he corresponded with the Basel envoy in Paris, Peter Ochs , who represented the interests of the Hanseatic cities in France . As envoy, he represented the city at the Hildesheimer Convent in 1796 together with councilor Mattheus Rodde .

When Friedrich Bernhard von Wickede had to file for bankruptcy in 1790 and leave the city, Wilcken moved into the house of the circle society , today's Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck , in its place , and lived there until his death.

He died of nerve fever . His successor was Carl Georg Curtius .

literature

  • Friedrich Daniel Behn : The meritorious life of ... Herr Hermann Adolph Wilcken Highly respectable and highly deserved second Syndicus of the Kaiserl. freyen and salvation. Rom. Imperial City of Lübeck: designed from communicated news. Lübeck: Römhild 1801
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91–168, especially p. 116

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrollment in Göttingen on April 18, 1747, see Götz von Selle: Die Matrikel der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1734–1837. Hildesheim, Leipzig 1937.
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte. 4th, verb. and additional edition, Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2008 ISBN 978-3-7950-1280-9 , p. 493
  3. ↑ See Gustav Steiner (ed.): Correspondence of Peter Ochs (1752-1821). Volume 1, Basel: Birkhäuser 1927, p. 461
  4. ^ Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck. Volume 3, 1805, p. 395; see. Christian von Schlözer's description of Wilcken in Alexander Kaplunovskiy (ed.): "Even in Moscow I have reason to be satisfied": Christian von Schlözer's private correspondence with the family; academic worlds, knowledge and culture transfer in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. Berlin; Münster: LIT 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-11816-5 (= Mainz contributions to the history of Eastern Europe 5), p. 70 with note 2
  5. ^ Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : The Lübeck patriciate. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 5 (1888), pp. 293–392, here p. 371
personal data
SURNAME Wilcken, Hermann Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1801
Place of death Lübeck