Matthias Sievers
Matthias Sievers (born September 17, 1792 in Lübeck , † February 11, 1848 in Dresden ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Sievers came from a Lübeck merchant family. After attending school at the Katharineum from 1802 to Easter 1811 , he studied law at the University of Heidelberg in 1811/12 and became a member of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg . Due to the training requirements of the French period for the period from 1812 to 1813 , he switched to the Faculty of Law at the University of Dijon, newly founded by Napoleon in 1806 and then preferred by German lawyers, to acquire the legal baccalaureate and finished his studies in 1814 with a doctorate in law. jur. at the University of Jena .
In 1814 he was first private secretary of the councilor and city envoy Johann Friedrich Hach in Lübeck and advanced with him to the position of legation secretary at the Congress of Vienna . In the liberation war of 1815 he participated as a volunteer hunter in the Hanseatic Legion . In 1816 he continued his work as legation secretary for the four Free Cities at the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main. In 1817 he was first elected council secretary in Lübeck and then in 1825 the council of the city. From 1839 he was President of the Finance Department.
He died in Dresden in 1848, where he represented Lübeck at the German Postal Congress held there, at which negotiations about a German Postal Union were unsuccessful .
literature
- Dr. jur. Matthias Sievers in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 26, 1850, pp. 160-165 (digitized version )
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries up to the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: Journal of the association for Lübeck history and antiquity . Vol. 29, 1938, pp. 91-168.
- Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899) . Göttingen 2002, p. 275, No. 045
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914. Lübeck 1915, No. 34.
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 977.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized No. 19
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sievers, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, diplomat and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1848 |
| Place of death | Dresden |