Johann Friedrich Carstens

Johann Friedrich Carstens (born April 13, 1696 in Lübeck ; † March 8, 1761 ibid) was a lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Carstens was the son of Lübeck councilor Joachim Friedrich Carstens, who died in 1701 . He studied law at the Universities of Altdorf and Strasbourg . He toured Paris, London and the Netherlands on his Grand Tour . When he returned to his hometown in 1720, he was promoted to the position of council secretary and in 1735 was promoted to protonotary in the law firm . 1738 was elected a member of the Lübeck Council . During his term of office as councilor, the self-completion of the Lübeck council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 . As councilor he represented the city in Steinhorst and Ritzerau in 1745 in negotiations with the Electorate of Hanover on the question of Möllner pertinence . In 1747 he worked together with councilor Philipp Caspar Lamprecht in the settlement agreement with the Hanover government. In 1750 he was appointed another mayor in the council.

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, p. 22
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries up to the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: Journal of the association for Lübeck history and antiquity . Vol. 29, 1938, pp. 91-168.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.871.
• Peter von Kobbe : History and description of the country of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Altona 1837, pp. 152 - 167 The Möllner trial. as a digitized version . ISBN 3777700746