page_title: Christian Adolph Overbeck
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Adolph Overbeck / Life / Professional career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Porträt w:de:Christian Adolph Overbeck, 1818; Öl/Lw. 84 x 67,5 cm Bezeichnet u. r. R. Suhrlandt. pinx.1818; Inv. Nr. G 386 MKK Lübeck
context_page_description: Christian Adolph Overbeck was a German poet, and the Burgomaster of Lübeck.
context_section_description: Overbeck's career began with a failed attempt in 1776 to found a school, the Erziehungsanstalt für Knaben, in Bremen, after the example of Joachim Heinrich Campes. In the same year he began his legal career as a barrister in Lübeck, and in 1779 he was appointed Supreme Court procurator. In 1792 he became assistant general counsel of the cathedral chapter of Lübeck, and in 1799 a consultant to the Schonenfahrer Company, the so-called Schütting, just as his father had been. In 1800 this was followed by his appointment to the Senate of Lübeck. In 1804 he was a representative of Lübeck in St Petersburg, and in 1808-9, 1810 and 1811 a representative of Lübeck in Paris, when he attended the wedding of Napoleon I of France with Marie-Louise of Austria. During Lübeck's occupation by France he filled the office of Receveur de la caisse communale. In 1814 he finally became Burgomaster of Lübeck.
caption: Christian Adolph Overbeck. Portrait by Rudolph Suhrlandt, 1818
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