Karl Peter Klügmann

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Karl Peter Klügmann

Karl Peter Klügmann (born December 22, 1835 in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , † January 18, 1915 in Berlin ) was a lawyer, Lübeck politician and diplomatic representative at the Prussian court.

Life

origin

Karl Peter Klügmann was born as the son of the director of the Lübeck commercial school, Johann Christian Klügmann, and Anna Katharina Susanna, a born tea. He is the brother of Adolf Klügmann .

career

After visiting the Katharineum Klügmann studied at the University in Bonn , the law , which made him Corps Palatia was active. With a doctorate in law , he settled in Lübeck in 1859 and was admitted to the bar and notary for the first time . In 1869 he became procurator at the Higher Appeal Court of the Free Hanseatic Cities .

Karl Peter Klügmann

Klügmann took an early part in the inner political life of the city. As early as 1864 he was elected to the committee of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway Company and in 1869 appointed to the citizenry .

After the Franco-German War of lübeckische appointed him Kriegerverein of 1870-71 to its honorary member .

The national parties of Lübeck sent him to the Reichstag elections in 1874 , 1877 and 1878 as a member of the National Liberal Party as a representative of Lübeck in the German Reichstag in Berlin. There he unfolded a wide range of activities, in particular taking an active part in major trade-policy issues and was most recently secretary of the party's executive committee.

In 1880 Klügmann was elected to the Lübeck Senate as the successor to the late Senator Overbeck . There he worked in the areas of taxes , imperial and foreign affairs and the deputation of the poor .

By the senates of the three Hanseatic cities, Klügmann was appointed on April 17, 1896 after 16 years of service in the highest body in Lübeck, as the successor to Friedrich Krüger , who died in January, as Hanseatic envoy and authorized minister at the Prussian court in Tiergartenstraße 17a. Here he always took care of their interests, for example choosing Lübeck as the seat of the Hanseatic Insurance Company . At the same time he took over the representation of the Hanseatic cities in the Federal Council .

In imperial politics, Klügmann had acted as a consultant for important commercial, constitutional and international law as well as colonial proposals.

Klügmann was also a member of the Reich Disciplinary Court at the Reich Court in Leipzig .

On October 1, 1913, Klügmann retired. On his retirement, the Lübeck Senate bestowed the highest possible award on him with the golden medal of honor "Bene Merenti" and Hamburg and Bremen the golden medal of merit. At his farewell audience on October 28, 1913, the Kaiser awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class .

burial

January 22, 1915
Tomb at the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck

On the occasion of his departure, the Emperor sent telegrams of condolences to the son, the Empress , the Reich Chancellor , the Senates of the Hanseatic cities, the Prussian envoy to the Hanseatic cities and all ministers and representatives of the Federal Council to his widow of the deceased's merits for the Hanseatic cities and the welfare of the Reich .

Klügmann's body was transferred to the Hanseatic city after the Berlin funeral service. On Friday, January 22nd, 1915, the Lübeck mourning service took place in the Jakobikirche , which was held by the theologian Heinrich Lindenberg , who had recently resigned from his position as superintendent . Among the mourners were, among other personalities, the widow, her daughter and the two sons who had come from the field , as well as the Hanseatic ambassador and the mayors of the three Hanseatic cities. At the end of devotion played the Chapel of the protection team , while the coffin through the trellis standing gun section was borne of the Veterans' Association of the Church.

The chapel playing mourners followed by the rifle section led the funeral procession to the general church . Behind the hearse , which was drawn by four horses , was carried a black cushion on which the three golden coins of honor from the Hanseatic cities were located. The pillow was followed by the fluffed flag of the warrior club and this was followed by the funeral suite.

The band continued to play at the burial in the cemetery, while the rifle section presented the rifle .

family

The Souchay family came from a wealthy Huguenot merchant family who had come to Lübeck from France via Hanau in the 18th century .

Klügmann married Charlotte on April 6, 1883 (born October 31, 1861 in Wintershagen, † September 1, 1928 in Gronenberg ). She was a daughter of William Souchay (born June 23, 1827 in Lübeck, † 15 May 1918 in Lübeck, buried in Susel ), Lord of today the Town of Sierksdorf forming good Winterhagen and brother of the poet Theodor Souchay , and his wife Emilie Friederike (born December 24, 1828 in Stuttgart , † March 30, 1915 in Lübeck, buried in Süsel), born Ebner.

The marriage resulted in two sons, Karl and Adolf, and a daughter, Karina.

Trivia

After the death of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorf were appointed guardians of the five children who were left behind.

Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he was later to receive the Nobel Prize , we meet the lawyer Klügmann as Dr. Andreas Gieseke .

Web links

Commons : Karl Peter Klügmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.1014
  • Chief Pastor Theod. Zietz †. In: Lübeck advertisements . 162nd volume, Abend-Blatt No. 639, edition A (large edition) of December 17, 1912
  • Excellency Dr. Kliigmann. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1913, No. 34, August 29, 1913, p. 189.
  • Hanseatic envoy a. D. Dr. Klügmann †. In: Father-city sheets. Born 1914/15, No. 17, January 24, 1915, pp. 65-66.
  • Burial of the Hanseatic envoy a. D. Dr. Kliigmann. In: Father-city sheets . Year 1914/15, No. 18, January 31, 1915, pp. 75–76.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Election results see Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 293.
  2. ^ J. Bielefeld: Berlin and the Berliners (1905). Europäische Hochschulverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8457-2001-2 , p. 477 f.
  3. ↑ This was done to compensate for the loss of the Higher Appeal Court. After the last major social security law was passed under Otto von Bismarck , the Hanseatic Insurance Company (later the State Insurance Company of the Hanseatic Cities , dissolved in 1938) was responsible for the invalidity and old age insurance of employees in the three Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck.
  4. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter . Year 1913, Volume 45, No. 44, November 2, 1913, p. 708.
  5. ^ Lübeck advertisements. 165th volume, Abend-Blatt No. 39, January 22, 1915.
  6. ^ Buddenbrooks - List of real names
personal data
SURNAME Klügmann, Karl Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NLP), MdR and diplomatic representative of the Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1915
Place of death Berlin