Eel weaver

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Eel weaver , bourgeois Johann Jürgen Weber or Karl Weber (* around 1780 in Bremerlehe ; † August 24, 1855 in Hamburg ), was a German brush binder and eel seller who is considered the Hamburg original .

Life

Weber was actually a brush maker who went around Hamburg in the mornings as a street vendor with a cart and sold his brushes . In the afternoon and evening he went through the streets and pubs selling smoked eels. He was known for his original sales sayings. He praised the goods in verse , for example:

“Eel, roe eel!
Madam, kumm gau herdal,
De Köksch de sitt in Kellerlock
And mending a krenoline skirt. "

Weber also stood out for the clothes he wore on sales tours. He was dressed in white trousers and a red vest. Over it he wore an open jacket and on his head he had a noticeable felt hat. He attached flowers to his clothes and hat, just as wedding bitters did back then. Weber occasionally bought the eels that he carried in a basket for sale in the fish shop in Hagenbeck in St. Pauli . Weber was represented at Hamburg's folk festivals such as Lämmermarkt and Waisengrün with a booth for selling eels, which was very popular with the population.

Weber was married to Catharina Maria Mull († 1830). On May 31, 1835 the second marriage took place with Elisabeth Margaretha Fraerichs, widowed Ebel. He died in a poor house in 1855.

Aalweber is remembered in Hamburg and is called the original. On a private initiative in 2011 in Hamburg-St. Georg , Koppel 2, a steel relief in memory of eel weavers attached.

literature

  • Daniel Tilgner: Small Lexicon of Hamburg Terms . 8th edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0190-6 , pp. 14-15 .

Web links

  • Johann Jürgen Weber. In: Hamburg personalities from 801-2013. Museum for Hamburg History and Society Harmony from 1789, accessed on November 11, 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg market bustle . In: Daheim: A German family paper with illustrations . tape  4 . At home expedition and Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig and Bielefeld 1868, p. 280 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Carl Hagenbeck: Of animals and people. Experiences and experiences . Vita Deutsches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1909, p. 25-26 ( online ).
  3. ^ Annette Luckey: Memorial for the eel-Dieter from St. Georg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Hamburg February 28, 2011 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Eel weaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Johann Jürgen (real name); Weber, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brush-maker and eel seller
DATE OF BIRTH around 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerlehe
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1855
Place of death Hamburg