Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann

Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann (born September 9, 1826 in Hamburg ; † February 21, 1901 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer , senator and first mayor .

Life and politics

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Lehmann grew up in Hamburg and studied law. He settled in Hamburg as a lawyer. In 1858 he was elected commercial judge. He became Vice President in 1861 and President of the Higher Court of the Commercial Court in 1876. Lehmann was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1859 to 1862 and from 1864 to 1868 . On July 7, 1879, he was elected to the Hamburg Senate for the resigned Ernst Friedrich Sieveking , until September 15, 1900 he was a member of the Senate. He was elected second mayor for the years 1894, 1897 and 1899 after the resignation of Johannes Versmann on July 5, 1899 . Lehmann served as first mayor in 1895 and 1898. In 1900, Lehmann served as first mayor until September 15, when he had to resign due to illness and Gerhard Hachmann succeeded him.

Lehmann was married to Emma Wilhelmine Elisabeth (December 27, 1863 - March 22, 1906) daughter of the influential Hamburg mayor Heinrich Kellinghusen .

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , mayor is given to Johs on the double-sided collective grave , among others. Christian Eugen Lehmann remembers.

literature

• Adolf Buehl : From the old council chamber. Memories 1905–1918 (lectures and essays by the Association for Hamburg History ; Vol. 19). Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1973, p. 61.