Ludwig Philipp Roeck

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Ludwig Philipp Roeck (* 1697 in Lübeck ; † December 10, 1768 there ) was a merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Roeck was the son of the Lübeck merchant Caspar Roeck († 1718). In 1722 he married Maria Elisabeth Benser, daughter of the Lübeck silk merchant Johann Hermann Benser. The councilor Arnold Gottfried Benser was his brother-in-law.

Roeck belonged to the Lübeck Schonenfahrers and was elected to the city council in 1743 from their ranks. In 1761 he was appointed mayor and combing lord in the Lübeck council. With this election he completed the rise of the Roeck family, who immigrated from Gifhorn at the beginning of the 17th century, to the upper class of Lübeck.

Johann Daniel Overbeck gave the funeral speech for him. His epitaph in the Petrikirche was destroyed in 1942 during the air raid on Lübeck .

To his sons, which the merchant and councilor included Hermann Heinrich Roeck and the same merchant Ludwig Philipp Roeck († 1796), who for a list of 1,784 with wine, Brandtewein , spicery -Color - and Gewürzwaaren acted; he also owned an amidam and powder factory, and is also a freight forwarder . The younger Ludwig Philipp Roeck was the father of councilor Hermann Friedrich Roeck .

literature

  • Johann Daniel Overbeck: Memoria LP Roeck, reipublicae Lubecensis consulis. Lübeck 1768
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 897

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pronunciation Roock , without e with long o, e and c are Low German expansion symbols
  2. ^ Gerhard Ahrens: Roeck, Carl Ludwig in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 13, Neumünster, p. 411.
  3. ^ August F. Crome: Handbook for merchants. Leipzig: Crusius 1784, p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Roeck, Ludwig Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1768
Place of death Lübeck