Amandus Augustus Abendroth

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Amandus Abendroth 1828, portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger
Abendroth's tomb in the old hammer cemetery in Hamburg-Hamm

Amandus Augustus Abendroth (born October 16, 1767 in Hamburg ; † December 17, 1842 there ) was a Hamburg senator , Ritzebüttel bailiff and mayor of Hamburg since 1831 .

Life

Amandus Augustus Abendroth is the son of the notary and court procurator Abraham Augustus Abendroth from Scheibenberg and of Johanna Maria Groot, who was born in Bargteheide . His mother died a few weeks after he was born. He studied in Erlangen and Göttingen Law and received his doctorate in 1790 in Göttingen for Doctor of Law . On October 6, 1792, he married the sister-in-law of his friend and later Senate colleague Johann Heinrich Bartels Johanna Magdalena von Reck (1773-1854) in Venice ; both had nine children. The eldest son August Abendroth also became a lawyer and was a patron of the arts. Another son was the future citizenship deputies Carl Edward Abendroth .

At the age of 28 he became head of the u. a. General Poor's Institution initiated by Caspar Voght and elected to the Senate in 1800. During the French occupation he worked as a bailiff in Ritzebüttel . In 1811 the French brought him back to Hamburg as Mayor . On February 24, 1813, a spontaneous popular uprising against the French occupation broke out. After the Danish military, who had been called in for help from neighboring Altona, was beaten down, Abendroth organized a vigilante group, recruited from the Hamburg merchants, to prevent future looting of wealthy citizens' homes. When the French returned in June 1813, he was relieved of his duties and replaced by Friedrich August Rüder . During the exile by Napoleon in 1813/14, he wrote the reform writing Wishes at Hamburg's Rebirth .

He founded the North Sea resort of Cuxhaven in 1816 and was the first police officer in Hamburg from 1821. In 1799, Abendroth was admitted to the Freemasons Association, and in 1820 he was made Honorary Grand Master of the Hamburg Freemason Grand Lodge Loge d'Hambourg (today Absalom zu den Drei Netteln ). With the idea of ​​motivating people to help themselves, he founded the Hamburger Sparkasse in 1827 . In 1828 he became landlord in Hamm and Horn , in 1830 the oldest landlord in the Geestland , and Martin Hieronymus Schrötteringk became the second landlord . On July 29, 1831, Amandus Augustus Abendroth was re-elected Mayor of Hamburg . Until his death he also served as the highest school overseer (protosolarch).

In 1834, Abendroth bought a park laid out in 1805 by Joseph Ramée in what is now the Hoheluft-Ost district and had it renewed by the garden inspector of the botanical garden at Dammtor, Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff . In addition to numerous plants, there were also several greenhouses : an orangery , a large and a small pineapple house and two wine houses.

Abendroth died in 1842 after a long illness and was buried in the Hammer Cemetery, which is now a listed building , at the Trinity Church in Hamburg-Hamm .

Honors

Works

Portraits

  • Friedrich Carl Gröger , portrait (half figure), Mayor Amandus Augustus Abendroth , canvas: 62 × 53 cm, inscribed: 1827.
  • Carl Friedrich Gröger, Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath , Amandus Augustus Abendroth , Bildgr. 36 × 26 cm, lithograph , Hamburg 1828, SUB Hamburg , Hamburgensien: Portraits
  • Edmé Quenedey , Amandus Augustus Abendroth , plate size. 10 × 9 cm, etching , Paris 1811, SUB Hamburg , Hamburgensien: Portraits
  • Friedrich Carl Gröger, portrait (half figure), Johanna Magdalena Abendroth, b. von Reck , canvas: 62 × 53 cm, inscribed: 1827

literature

Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt

  • Peter Bussler: Night watchman in the Ritzebüttel office and in Cuxhaven. Amtmann Abendroth created night watchman book for Cuxhaven in 1816 . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 808 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2017, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.9 MB ; accessed on July 16, 2019]).
  • Peter Bussler: A close friendship for the benefit of the Ritzebüttel office. Johann Georg Repsold and Amandus Augustus Abendroth . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 814 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 12, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Amandus Augustus Abendroth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steetz: The country seat of Dr. A. Abendroth . In: Archive of the Garden and Flower Growing Association for Hamburg, Altona and its surroundings , Hamburg 1839, pp. 35–39, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DOdpIAAAAYAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DRA2-PA35~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  2. ^ Entry in the Hamburg address book from 1935 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Carl Schellenberg : The Low German man in the Hamburg portrait of the past . Ed .: Landesbildstelle Hansa u. Museum f. hamb. Story . C. Boysen, Hamburg, DNB 362588414 , p.   24 (no year, [1935]).
  4. ↑ Schellenberg, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Evening red, Amandus Augustus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg Senator and Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1842
Place of death Hamburg