Johann Abraham Lüttringhausen

Johann Abraham Lüttringhausen (baptized March 4, 1714 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ); † July 12, 1788 there ) was a German politician and mayor of Elberfeld.

Lüttringhausen was born the son of the businessman and mayor of 1732 Abraham Lüttringhausen (1684–1756) and was baptized on March 4, 1714. His mother Helena Wülfing (1678–1741) was the daughter of the mayor from 1694, Gottfried Wülfing (1633–1695). Lüttringhausen himself married Anna Maria Mercken (1719–1797) in Elberfeld on August 18, 1744, the marriage remained childless.

Lüttringhausen began as a merchant in Elberfeld and was common in 1747 and 1753. From 1754 to 1755 he was a councilor and from 1754 to 1756 he was proposed three times in a row to mayor without being elected. This changed after his father died in November 1756, who had been a lay judge at the city court since 1734. Under pressure from the state government, after the death of the member of the Reformed faith, a Catholic had to be elected as the new lay judge, although the number of Catholics was hardly significant. Probably as a protest against this arbitrariness, the son of the lay judge, Johann Abraham Lüttringhausen, was elected the new mayor in 1757. The following year he was a city judge. Lüttringhausen was proposed again as mayor in 1770, but was no longer elected.

literature

• Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 106 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Jakob Siebel	Mayor of Elberfeld 1757	Johann Kaspar Bergmann