Johann Heinrich Lutterloh

Ordinance of Duke Charles I on the Establishment of a Pawn Shop in Braunschweig (March 9, 1765)

Johann Heinrich Lutterloh (* 1723 ; † February 6, 1784 in Braunschweig ) was a German commissioner , councilor and pawnshop director. From 1765 to 1784 he was the first director of the Ducal Leyhaus in Braunschweig.

Life

Johann Heinrich Lutterloh was born in 1723 into a family of civil servants and pastors in Braunschweig. In 1765 he was appointed the first director of the Ducal Leyhaus , newly founded by Duke Karl I.

Pawnshop director

The establishment of pawnshops aimed at improving the credit facilities and was a means of mercantilist economic development. In the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , such plans by the Privy Council for Wolfenbüttel (1749) and Helmstedt (1744) failed in the planning phase. The principality's first real pawnshop was founded in 1754 in Holzminden on the basis of a ducal ordinance. Considerations for setting up a pawnshop in Braunschweig go back to the years 1720/1723, whereby the planning began in 1746 and the implementation was largely completed with the renovation of a house on Jakobstrasse in 1763. The Princely Pawn Shop was founded with the ordinance of March 9th, 1765 for several admission of the food stand and useful trades . It was obliged to accept savings deposits and lent money on Mobilia and Immobilia and on land mortgages . According to the regulation, the management of the pawnshop was supposed to be in the hands of a commission, but in fact it was initially run solely by Lutterloh. The pawnshop had to carry out its work without equity , but the renovation costs for the building had been advanced by the Chamber . In 1772 Lutterloh reported that equity capital of 15,000 thalers had already been generated. A list of the pawns up for auction from that year shows that the Leyhaus could then be considered the “bank” of the “little man”. He worked as a pawn shop director until his death in 1784.

Further stations in life

Notice board on the Schriftsassenhof in Stöckheim with the names of the owners

Even before his time as pawn shop director, he was active in the court of a captain and in 1758 was responsible for the construction of the new road bridge in Rüningen over the Landwehr Canal. In 1769 Lutterloh took on further tasks such as investigating the causes of a flood in Rüningen and Leiferde . In 1773 he was appointed councilor. From 1773 until his death he was also director of the orphanage lotteries .

On May 5, 1763 he married the widow of the bank director Friedrich Ludwig Metzner, for whom it was already the third marriage. She brought a considerable amount of property into the marriage, such as the Stöckheimer Schriftsassenhof . The mansion and rococo pavilion located there was probably built by him or his predecessor.

Lutterloh died in February 1784 at the age of 60 or 61 in Braunschweig.

literature

Erich Achterberg: Braunschweigische Staatsbank. Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1965.
Victor-L. Siemers: Lutterloh, Johann Heinrich . 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. 469 .

Web links

Leihhauskommission (1765–1806), Archive Information System Lower Saxony and Bremen (accessed May 12, 2020)

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Albrecht: The credit system, insurance, pawn shops and banks . In: Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Jörg Leuschner , and Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13597-7 , p. 844.
↑ Peter Albrecht: The credit system, insurance, pawn shops and banks . In: Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Jörg Leuschner, and Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13597-7 , p. 847.
^ Theodor Müller: Shipping and rafting in the river area of the Oker . In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke , vol. 39, Braunschweig 1968, p. 165
^ Bornstedt: Chronicle of Stöckheim settlement geography, social and cultural history of a Brunswick village. P. 237.

personal data
SURNAME	Lutterloh, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German commissioner, court advisor and pawnshop director
DATE OF BIRTH	1723
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1784
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Peter Albrecht: The credit system, insurance, pawn shops and banks . In: Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Jörg Leuschner , and Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13597-7 , p. 844.

[2] Peter Albrecht: The credit system, insurance, pawn shops and banks . In: Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Jörg Leuschner, and Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13597-7 , p. 847.

[TMüller-3] Theodor Müller: Shipping and rafting in the river area of the Oker . In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke , vol. 39, Braunschweig 1968, p. 165

[4] Bornstedt: Chronicle of Stöckheim settlement geography, social and cultural history of a Brunswick village. P. 237.