Johann Philipp Plessing
Johann Philipp Plessing (* 1741 in Lübeck ; † April 14, 1810 ibid) was a Lübeck merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city.
Life
Plessing was born as the son of the Lübeck merchant and councilor Johann Christoph Plessing . Grandfather was the Lübeck council cellar master Peter Christoph Plessing († 1712). Johann Philipp Plessing took over his father's trading business and, like him, belonged to the Schonenfahrer corporation . In 1782 he was elected to the city council, where he was appointed mayor in 1804. Georg Philipp Schmidt von Lübeck , who became known as a poet and worked as a financial specialist in the Danish administration of Schleswig-Holstein, frequented the house of Mayor Plessing . His niece Margaretha Elisabeth Jenisch also lived temporarily in his house after the death of her parents. His grave is in the cemetery of St. Lorenzkirche .
His daughter Christine Margarete married Anton Diedrich Gütschow in 1792 . His grandchildren Philipp Wilhelm Plessing and Heinrich Alphons Plessing later also became senators of the Hanseatic city. Plessingstrasse in Lübeck is named after the mayor and the three other councilors of the Plessing family .
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.930.
Individual evidence
- ^ After Fehling with reference to Vaterstädtische Blätter 1909, p. 29.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessing, Johann Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1810 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |