Michael Eberhard Prehn (the elder)

Michael Eberhard Prehn , called the Elder (born September 3, 1717 in Rostock ; † August 31, 1787 ibid) was a German merchant, councilor and landowner.

Life

Michael Eberhard Prehn was the son of the silk merchant and Rostock councilor Wilhelm Prehn (1686–1751) and his wife Anna Catharina, b. Niemann († 1739). Wilhelm Prehn, born and raised in Greifswald, married the sole heir of the Niemann business in 1716.

Like his father, Prehn worked as a merchant in Rostock and councilor of the city. In the 1780s he gave up his business activity and the office of councilor and, as the heir to Hohen Schwarfs , Berendshagen with Dolglas , Pustohl and Klein Gischow, only devoted himself to his estates.

Michael Eberhard Prehn was married to Sophia Theresia, geb. Lange (1727–1797), daughter of the Rostock merchant and councilor Johann Jakob Lange. The children came from marriage:

Wilhelm Prehn (1745–1816), merchant in Rostock
Johann Jacob Prehn (1746–1802), Prof. Dr. iur., administrative lawyer and university professor
Michael Eberhard Prehn (1747–1818), Dr. iur., administrative lawyer, senator and mayor
Dorothea Sophie Prehn (1749–1750)
Theresia Sophia Prehn (* 1750)

literature

Martha Müller: Mecklenburgers in Eastern Europe: a contribution to their emigration in the 16th to 19th centuries. Herder Inst., Marburg / Lahn 1972, pp. 393–394 ( digitized BSB Munich )
Johann Christian Koppe : Now living, learned Mecklenburg. Part 2, Rostock and Leipzig 1783/1784, p. 113 ff. ( Digitized GDZ Göttingen )

Individual evidence

↑ Petrus Sasse : funeral speech on Mr. Wilhelm Prehn. Adler, Rostock 1751. ( State bibliography MV )
^ II. List of knightly and other private goods and their current owners. A. Knighthood of the Duchy of Schwerin. I) Bukow Office. Berendshagen and Dolglas = Councilor Mich. Eberhard Prehn. In: Herzoglich-Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staats-Kalender 1785. Second part, Schwerin, Bärensprung 1785, p. 26. ( digitized GDZ Göttingen )
↑ Martha Müller: Mecklenburgers in Eastern Europe: (see literature)

personal data
SURNAME	Prehn, Michael Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German merchant, councilor and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1787
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Petrus Sasse : funeral speech on Mr. Wilhelm Prehn. Adler, Rostock 1751. ( State bibliography MV )

[HMSK-2] II. List of knightly and other private goods and their current owners. A. Knighthood of the Duchy of Schwerin. I) Bukow Office. Berendshagen and Dolglas = Councilor Mich. Eberhard Prehn. In: Herzoglich-Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staats-Kalender 1785. Second part, Schwerin, Bärensprung 1785, p. 26. ( digitized GDZ Göttingen )

[3] Martha Müller: Mecklenburgers in Eastern Europe: (see literature)