Johann Georg Iken

Johann Georg Iken (born December 12, 1786 in Bremen ; † May 6, 1850 in Bremen) was a lawyer and Bremen senator .

biography

Iken was the son of Senator Jacob Ludwig Iken (1758-1811) and his wife Agnes (1761-1816). His grandfather was the mayor of Bremen Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1726-1805) . His brothers were the scholar Carl Jakob Ludwig Iken (1789–1841) and the syndic August Ferdinand Arnold Iken (1793–1853), his cousin the Senator Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1785–1866) .
He was married to the notary's daughter Caroline Fredericke Willmanns (1790–1873); both had three children. The family lived at Am Wall No. 98/200.

He completed his school days in Bremen, from 1804 at the Illustre grammar school in Bremen . From 1805 he studied law at the University of Göttingen , 1806 at the University of Heidelberg and he obtained his doctorate in 1808 in Göttingen. jur.

In the French side of Bremen he was from 1811 clerk at the tribunal court and from 1812 secretary at the commercial court in Bremen. 1813/14 fought as a lieutenant in the voluntary Bremen field battalion under Major General Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn and Major Christian August von Weddig against the French.

In 1814 he became secretary at the lower court and in 1818 at the higher court in Bremen. From 1824 to 1849 he was the successor to Johann Michael Duntze, who was elected mayor, of Bremen. In 1849 he joined the judges' college.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).