Lorenz Lorenzen

Lorenz Lorenzen (born October 30, 1795 in Husum ; † June 22, 1866 in Lüneburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and a member of the Schleswig-Holstein parliament .

Lorenz Lorenzen was a son of the Husum town architect Lorentz Lorentzen (January 6, 1753 - November 3, 1835) and his wife Maria Dorothea née Petersen (1760 - January 25, 1843). He studied at the University of Kiel from 1815 to 1819 . There he became a member of the Old Kiel Burschenschaft in 1815 . He became pastor of Schwabstedt in 1820 and in Adelby in 1829 . 1839-1840 he was provost of the Flensburg provost office. On January 23, 1821 he married Elisabeth Franziska Christine Cathrine Grothusen in Rendsburg (July 8, 1799 in Niendorf - September 21, 1875 in Lüneburg), the daughter of the Niendorf customs inspector and later inspector of Schleswig and Holstein, Gerhard Grothusen (1765–1832) .

In 1836 he was appointed by the king as one of the two representatives of the clergy to be a member of the first Schleswig estates assembly . He was a member of the chamber until it dissolved itself in 1846. In the estates he represented the claims of the Augustenburg and anti-Danish positions. In 1840 he became a knight of the Dannebrog Order . During the uprising he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly . He was elected for the 16th Schleswig electoral district (Flensburg-Land). His only son took part in the war as a volunteer and died in the Battle of Bau .

After the collapse of the uprising he could not stay in Schleswig-Holstein as he was explicitly excluded from the amnesty in 1852 . He became superintendent in Lüneburg .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 312-314.
• Lorenzen, Lorenz in: Carl Frederik Bricka: Dansk biografisk leksikon (1st edition, 1896) biography of HR Hiort-Lorenzen

Web links

• Lorenz Lorenzen in Den Store Danske Encyklopædi