Andreas Andersen

Andreas Andersen (born January 19, 1799 in Leck ; † January 31, 1879 in Keitum ) was a German mercantile ship captain and local politician.

Life

Andreas Andersen was a son of the goldsmith Christian Andersen and his wife Dorthea Cathrina, née Fiehl from Aabenraa . He first went to sea and then settled on Sylt , where he took part in all important operations on the island as a state representative in the municipal service. From 1837 onwards, this included the difficult correspondence with the pension chamber, which was supposed to clarify questions about the transfer of growth between Morsum and Keitum . As a result, Christian VIII agreed on December 15, 1841 to surrender around 91 hectares to the Sylt landscape .

In 1842 and 1862, Andersen spoke out against having demat marshland dyed in 2000 . He was able to prove that the lands could not pay for it, which led to the decision not to implement the plans. When the “Allgemeine Sylter Verein” was founded in 1860, Andersen got one of three director posts. In 1876 he refused in a leading position to take over the running costs for the bank protection of the growth. In 1867 he himself paid for a new dike near Munkmarsch , which was to serve as a replacement for the silted up port of Keitum.

At the people's assembly on March 28, 1848, at which Andersen gave a speech, those present elected him to be the leader of the Landwehr. He bought 200 rifles from Rendsburg and left the island on April 16, 1848 and on March 21, 1849 because of the Danes for the mainland. On May 3, 1849, the occupiers left the island again, whereupon Andersen returned and brought 200 rifles with him. As an appointed commander, the inhabitants met him with distrust and opposition. Nevertheless, he was able to set up new guards and signal stations. On August 1, 1850, he fled again from the Danes.

Together with Captain Carl Jensen, Andersen called on the pastor from Keitum at the end of February 1864 not to say any further prayers for the king. On March 3, 1864, the Danish commandant Otto Christian Hammer arrested Andreas Andersen and four other people and imprisoned them in the Landvogtei in Tinnum . On June 3, 1864, Andersen visited the Foreign Office as one of the ambassadors, where Otto von Bismarck received him. On July 12, 1864, Andersen wanted to lead three Austrian officers from their commanding officer in Højer Sogn to a fleet command in front of List , where they wanted to report. The men went from Jerpstedt through the mudflats and reached the ship fleet within a third of a mile when the tide began. Floating in mortal danger, she took the gunboat “Seehund” on board. There the men sent an order from the Ministry from Vienna to help the Austrian army in their efforts to take Sylt and Föhr.

estate

Andreas Andersen was married to Ida Friedrichsen (1804-1856) from Wenningstedt . The couple had two children who died young. They wrote their wills on December 11, 1852. Through codicillas of 1873 and 1879, the so-called "Andersensche Legat" was created. It received income from interest from cash and the pier in Munkmarsch. Half of the mole's net income was intended to help ambitious needy people who received up to 50 marks for Christmas. After the government built the “New Bridge” in 1890 and decided not to expand the Munkmarscher harbor, the bridge developed into the new main transshipment point to the detriment of the pier. The income from the legacy was no longer sufficient to maintain the pier. As the new owner, she leased the land on July 1, 1962 to the "Sylter Segler Club", which bought her on June 1, 1966.

Andersen owned a property in the southeast of Keitum. This included a “mansion” with a hall of mirrors, in which he received “distinguished visitors”. The city of Mülheim an der Ruhr bought the building in 1925 and turned it into a children's rest home. In 1937 the National Socialist People's Welfare took over the property, which in 1950 returned to the city of Mülheim.

Andersen left a figurehead of his last ship. A Keitum museum took this Fortuna on.

Honors

• Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , August 8, 1864
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 4th Class, February 5, 1865

literature

• Wilhelm Krüger: Andersen, Andreas . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 34–35