Georg Philipp Dohlhoff
Georg Philipp Dohlhoff (born February 16, 1734 in Magdeburg ; † April 22, 1794 there ) was mayor of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg and pharmacist from 1774 to 1794 .
Life and family
Dohlhoff came from a Protestant council family from Kemnath in the Upper Palatinate . After the Battle of the White Mountain , which the Protestant side lost in 1620, the Upper Palatinate was re-Catholicized , from which its ancestors fled to Harzgerode . His father, the pharmacist Erhardt Christof Dohlhoff (* around 1694 in Harzgerode, † October 26, 1765 in Magdeburg), moved to Magdeburg and became a citizen of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg. His mother was Margarethe Sandrart (born January 15, 1705 in Magdeburg, † June 10, 1779). After his maternal grandfather, the merchant and tobacco manufacturer Georg Sandrart (born January 17, 1665 in Strasbourg, † October 8, 1727 in Magdeburg) and his father Erhardt Christian Dohlhoff, he also became the owner of the "fish pharmacy" in the house "Zur Königsburg", Alter Market 13.
Georg Philipp Dohlhoff was married to his cousin Philippine Jacobea Sandrart (* around 1740, † after 1775), a granddaughter of the mayor Philipp Schwartz and the aforementioned businessman and tobacco manufacturer Georg Sandrart. The marriage produced eight children, four of whom are known by name. The daughters Sophie Marie (* 1769, † 1827) and Karoline Philippine (* 1775, † 1830) were associated with the middle-class Magdeburg families Gaertner and Maquet . Her eldest son, Georg Peter Dohlhoff (* 1768, † 1837), doctor of theology , was a reformed cathedral and court preacher of Magdeburg; the son Dr. August Friedrich Dohlhoff (* around 1770) was a doctor. The name Dohlhoff also appears as a godfather in the Johann Ernst Gaertner family .
Public work
Like his father, the pharmacist Erhardt Christian Dohlhoff, Georg Philipp Dohlhoff was a citizen of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg. In 1765 he took over the possession of the Palatinate "fish pharmacy" after his father. It was previously founded by Theodor Timmermann and passed to Erhardt Christian Dohlhoff via the Sandrat family . Dohlhoff enjoyed a great reputation in the Palatinate colony and was elected mayor by the council in 1774. According to the regulations of the Palatinate Colony, the election was confirmed by King Friedrich II . The Office kept Dohlhoff for twenty years, until his death 1794th
aftermath
The doctor Eduard Georg Dohlhoff (1799–1852), a grandson of Georg Phillip Dohlhoff and son of the theologian Dr. Georg Peter Dohlhoff, enjoyed great popularity as a surgeon and in 1831 and 1832, during a cholera epidemic in Magdeburg, as head of a cholera hospital in Magdeburg's Turmschanze.
literature
- The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg, Johannes Fischer, Magdeburg 1939
- The French Colony of Magdeburg, Johannes Fischer, Magdeburg 1942
- Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries, Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, De Gruyter Verlag, 2002
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, Volume B VI, page 311, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1964
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dohlhoff, Georg Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1794 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |