Karl Cropp

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Karl Wilhelm Cropp (born February 10, 1830 in Hamburg ; † February 18, 1885 there ) was a German lawyer and Hamburg senator .

Life

Cropp was born as the son of Pastor Julius Cropp (1801–1868) and his wife Marianne Charlotte, b. Brüel born (1798-1843) in Hamburg and studied after visiting the Johanneums at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn law . In 1850 he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in Göttingen . In 1853 he was at the Georg-August University of Göttingen to Dr. iur. PhD . On November 21, 1853 Cropp was in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted he was enrolled as such until the 1,862th Octavio Schroeder accepted him as an associate in his law firm . In 1861 he became a member of the district court . On January 20, 1862, he was appointed Senate Secretary for Friedrich Theodor Müller, who was elected to the Senate.

On May 26, 1869 Cropp was elected to the Senate for the resigned Friedrich Theodor Müller . Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken succeeded him as Senate Secretary . Mönckeberg characterized Cropp as an extraordinarily capable worker, mainly as a consultant for the various difficult and distant objects ( cattle diseases , food counterfeiting , phylloxera ) as well as a processor of individual larger laws (revision of the building police law) and a member of the legal commission (including the introductory laws to the judicial laws ) Was active in 1879 . He built up the health insurance agency and was its first president. Because of this activity, Cropp also enjoyed great recognition from the workforce , as Mönckeberg noted. Cropp died in office, his successor was Johann Heinrich Burchard .

Karl Cropp was married to Auguste Karoline Marie Pauline, b. Genzmer (1835-1911).

The lawyer Johann Friedrich August Cropp was his cousin.

literature

  • German Gender Book Volume 21, Hamburg Gender Book Volume 3, 1912, p. 185.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 175.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Bünsow: History and directory of the members of the fraternity Brunsviga zu Göttingen 1848-1933 , Göttingen 1933, p. 3 No. 42.
  2. ↑ a b Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 352
  3. ↑ a b Hauschild-Thiessen, Renate: Mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923356269 , p. 85
  4. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book, Genealogical manual of civil families . tape 21 . Starke, Görlitz 1912, p. 179 .
personal data
SURNAME Cropp, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cropp, Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Hamburg senator
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1885
Place of death Hamburg