You are bidding on oneLetter from Mühlhausen (Thuringia) from 1862.

Issued by the Police Administration; signed from the mayorCarl Engelhardt (1817-1886).

Addressed to the magistrate in Nienburg an der Weser.

Contents: Accompanying letter for sending the hiking pass of the journeyman bricklayer Johann Karl fuchs (the hiking pass itself is not included in the offer).

Scope: 1 p. (32.8 x 20.5 cm).

Condition: Without envelope. Paper browned, with minor edge damage. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: MM folder 4-3

About the mayor Carl Engelhardt (source: wikipedia):

Carl Anton Friedrich Engelhart (* 8. April 1817 in Mühlhausen/Thuringia; † 30 June 1886) was a German politician and mayor of his hometown from 1856 to 1883 and a member of the Prussian House of Lords from 1861 to 1883.

Life: Carl Engelhart was the third of eight children born to the notary Friedrich Gottlieb Engelhart and his wife Dorothea Friederika (b. Hoyer) to the world. After studying law like his father, he initially became a junior high court clerk. In 1845 Engelhart was elected to the city council of Mühlhausen and succeeded the late Karl Theodor Gier as mayor of the city in 1856.[1] As a representative of his hometown, he became a member of the Prussian House of Lords in 1861. He was also a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony. On the 28th. On June 1, 1868 he was appointed mayor of Mühlhausen. He was the first who was allowed to use this official title.

In 1883 Engelhart retired from his political offices - he was succeeded (both as mayor and as a member of the manor) by Wilhelm Schweineberg. Engelhart died three years later, on 30. June 1886.

His marriage to Auguste Charlotte Engelhardt in 1846 produced seven children.