Amsinck
Amsinck is the name of a Dutch patrician family that can be traced back to Oldenzaal for the first time at the end of the 15th century and immigrated to Hamburg with Willem Amsinck in 1576 . The sex is one of the Hanseatic people , the upper class in the Free Imperial and Hanseatic Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck , which was founded on constitutional privileges until 1918 .
The Amsincks were a merchant family in the Netherlands, Hamburg, Portugal , England , France , Hanover , Holstein , Denmark , Suriname and India . The progenitor was Johan Amsinck (approx. 1410–1430) from Oldenzaal, his grandson Rudolph Amsinck (1518–1582 / 90), father of Willem Amsinck (1542–1618), was mayor of Zwolle .
The beginnings
Willem Amsinck (1542–1618) came to Hamburg around 1576 as a religious refugee from the Netherlands. He was a dealer in cloth and sheets and soon became one of the city's respected merchants. His son Rudolf Amsinck (1577–1636) was elected to the Hamburg Council in 1619 and undertook large-scale dikes in the North Frisian Wadden Sea (Amsinck-Koog, Hamburger Hallig ) with his brother Arnold Amsinck (1579–1656) in the 1620s . Her numerous offspring were associated with well-known Hamburg families ( Berenberg , Gossler , Jenisch , Sieveking and others) and repeatedly held high offices in council and citizenship.
19th and 20th centuries
In the course of time, the family provided a mayor, two syndici , three councilors, three senior elders and two treasurers. Wilhelm Amsinck (1752–1831) was councilor from 1786 and mayor of Hamburg from 1802. His son Johannes Amsinck (1792–1879) inherited the trading company Johannes Schuback & Sons and achieved great wealth through trading with South American states that were then becoming independent . The family was involved in founding the Vereinsbank Hamburg , HAPAG and Hamburg Süd , among other things . His granddaughter Clara Amsinck married the future mayor Max Predöhl .
During the Weimar Republic and during the inflation , the family lost most of their wealth. Another descendant was Martin Garlieb Amsinck (1831–1905), German shipbuilder, shipowner and politician, MdHB. The family's descendants still live in Hamburg and other parts of Germany. Children of Reinhard Amsinck (brother of Johanna Amsinck) live in America.
photos
Rudolph (1518–1582 / 90) with his wife
Anna Kamferbeke (1520–1583)
Rudolf Amsinck (1577–1636), Hamburg councilor and merchant, painted by David Kindt
Isabeau (Isabella) de Hertoghe (1583–1636), member of the seven noble houses of Brussels and wife of Rudolf Amsinck, painted by David Kindt
Emilie Goßler (1799–1875), daughter of Hamburg councilor Johann Heinrich Goßler and wife of Johannes Amsinck
Cornelia Wilhelmine Amsinck (1800–61), wife of Hamburg's mayor Johann Ludwig Dammert , painted by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
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Others
- Hamburg's Amsinckstrasse , named after the Syndikus Wilhelm Amsinck (1793–1874), is part of Bundesstrasse 4 and is the most important connection to Hamburg city center from the south.
- Many Hamburg family members are buried in the old Niendorfer Friedhof in Hamburg. There you will find some family tombs, including those of Johannes and Wilhelm Amsinck.
- An “Amsinck” tombstone from the mid-19th century is located in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery in the eastern area of the Heckengarten open-air tomb museum
literature
- Caesar Amsinck, Otto Hintze : The Dutch and Hamburg family Amsinck: an attempt at a family history . 1. From the middle of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th century (1886), 2. From the beginning of the 18th century to the beginning of the French Revolution (1891), 3. From the middle of the 18th century to the present (1932). , 1st volume ( MDZ online )
- Georg T. Amsinck: En holstensk godsejer omkring år 1800: justitsråd Garlieb Amsinck . Gentofte 2005
- Georg T. Amsinck: Garleff Amsinck: Storkøbmand and Oberalter i det 18th århundredes Hamborg . Gentofte 2015
- Eckart Kleßmann: History of the city of Hamburg . Hamburg 2002
- Arne Cornelius Wasmuth: Hanseatic Dynasties. Old Hamburg families open their albums . Hamburg 2001
- Constanze Rheinholz: Gustav Amsinck. A Hamburg wholesaler in New York (patron for science; 11), Hamburg 2011
- Heinrich Reincke: Amsinck. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Richard J. Evans : Family and class in the Hamburg grand bourgeoisie 1815-1914 , in: David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans: The German Bourgeoisie , Routledge, 2014, ISBN 9781317696131 , pp. 115-139.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wasmuth: Hanseatische Dynastien, p. 17.
- ↑ Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , p. 28, cat. 105. 3 images at Commons.