Carl Friedrich Petersen (6 July 1809 in

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– 14 November 1892 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer and politician, who served several terms as

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. He was a Hamburg senator from 1855 until his death.

Education and early career

He studied law at the

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and at

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, and earned a doctorate in 1830. After a stay in Paris, he became a

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of Hamburg in 1831 and practised as a lawyer.

Public life

From the 1830s, he held numerous public offices, and he was elected as a senator in 1855. In 1861 he became First Lord of Police (i.e. Minister of Police and the Interior). He became First Mayor in 1876 and was reelected in the following year. He also served as Second and First Mayor during the terms 1879/80, 1882/83, 1885/86, 1888/89 and 1891/92.Adolf Wohlwill: ''Die Hamburger Bürgermeister Kirchenpauer, Petersen, Versmann''. Hamburg 1903

Family

Two grandsons by his son Gustav Petersen, Carl Wilhelm Petersen and Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, also officiated as first mayors of Hamburg, the former between 1924 and 1929 and again 1932 and 1933, the latter from 1945 to 1946.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Carl Friedrich Mayors of Hamburg Senators of Hamburg (before 1919) University of Göttingen alumni Heidelberg University alumni Jurists from Hamburg 1809 births 1892 deaths 19th-century German lawyers