Joachim Dietrich Lichtenstein

Joachim Dietrich Lichtenstein , also Joachim Diederich Lichtenstein (born July 17, 1706 in Aurich ; † January 23, 1773 in Braunschweig ), was a German lawyer and from 1744 to 1773 mayor of the city of Helmstedt .

Life

Joachim Dietrich Lichtenstein came from the originally Jewish Lichtenstein family and was born in Aurich in 1706 as the son of a Protestant preacher. He studied law in Helmstedt from 1723 and then worked as a tutor in Wolfenbüttel from 1725 . In 1727 he became an attorney at the Princely Justice Chancellery in Wolfenbüttel, in 1732 he was bailiff and in 1739 senior bailiff of the Princely Residence Office in Wolfenbüttel. Lichtenstein was from 1744 court school and first mayor of the city of Helmstedt. In the same year he was appointed court councilor in Brunswick-Lüneburg , member of the treasury of the Brunswick landscape and abbot of the Marienberg monastery . The University of Helmstedt earned him a doctorate in both rights in 1749 .

Lichtenstein built a modern city administration in Helmstedt. One focus was the reform of the traditional structures of the craft and trade, with the support of the Privy Council. Under Lichtenstein's leadership, an adequate relationship between the city and the university was created. In addition, he published several papers, in particular on legal and historical topics. Lichtenstein died in January 1773 at the age of 66 in Braunschweig. His sons were the royal Danish lieutenant colonel Johann Peter , the physician Georg Rudolph and the Lutheran theologian Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein .

Fonts (selection)

• Joachim Diederich Lichtenstein's contribution to the history of the Smalcaldic League and the Braunschweig-Lüneburg country history from 1542 to 1569 in the investigation of the beginning of the Reformation in Helmstedt. Christian Friedrich Weygand, Helmstedt 1750. ( digitized version )
• Joachim Diederich Lichtenstein's treatise on the imperial freyen direct monastery of Saints Simon and Jude in Goslar jurisdiction . Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1754. ( digitized version )
• with Friedrich Adolph Woltereck : Friderich Adolph Woltereck's short term Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttelscher regional regulations and laws, which were passed from the earliest times up to December of the 1750th year. Completed with a real repertory and a preface to the city policey laws of local countries in consideration of the food and intake of the cities accompanied by Joachim Diederich Lichtenstein . Meißner, Braunschweig, Leipzig, Wolfenbüttel 1771. ( digitized version )
• Doubts and concerns about the important question of the free export and import of grain . 1772.

literature

• Peter Albrecht: Lichtenstein, Joachim Dietrich, Dr. jur. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 443 .
• Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of ​​activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , p. 143.