Ludwig Mentze

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Silhouette Mentzes as a student in Göttingen in 1779 ( Schubert silhouettes collection )
Mentzes house on the Schüsselbuden (around 1910)

Ludwig Mentze (born October 24, 1755 in Lübeck , † July 19, 1822 there ) was a German lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Mentze was the son of the merchant Nicholas Barward Mentze (1719-1766), who since 1749 in Lübeck a "velvet and silk manufacture" under the company "Nicol. Barward Mentze & Comp. ”And was elected to the city council as the elderly man of the Novgorod driver in 1763, and his wife Magdalena Margaretha nee. Rodde . From Michaelis 1776 to Johannis 1780 he studied law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and obtained his doctorate. both rights. There he worked as a legal advisor at the Moisling Patrimonial Court and lived at Schüsselbuden No. 198 in 1798. During the Lübeck French era , he was elected to the city council on September 16, 1807 and with the incorporation of Lübeck into the French Empire on July 11, 1811 Member of the Lübeck Municipal Council appointed. On October 12, 1813, Mentze was arrested by the French together with the provisional Lübeck mayor Friedrich Adolph von Heintze and other members of the municipal council and taken to Hamburg as a hostage. After the final withdrawal of the French, he belonged to the Lübeck council and was there in the district court, in the building deputation, for the water art (1817-20), the stamp department and lastly at the city court (1821-22). He was married to the merchant's daughter Maria Elisabeth Weltner. After he had previously lived at the Schüsselbuden, he built a classicist house in Mühlenstrasse 72 from 1819 .

Fonts

  • De temporibus legitimis ex Statutis Lubecensibus collectis eorumque cum dissonantia, tum convenientia cum iure civili. Goettingen 1780

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814–1914 , Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1915, No. 15
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fehling, Ratslinie (1925), No. 907.
  2. ↑ Lübeckisches Adressbuch for the year 1798 , p. 90; House number according to old counting from 1796 (today's number 4).
personal data
SURNAME Mentze, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1822
Place of death Lübeck