Andreas Peter Andresen

Andreas Peter Andresen

Andreas Peter Andresen (born March 1, 1771 in Flensburg ; † October 16, 1832 there ) was a German merchant and mayor of Flensburg.

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Andreas Peter Andresen was a son of the businessman and deputy Hans Christian Andresen (1728–1799) from Burkall and his wife Catharina, née Jordt (1749–1815). He gave up his baptismal name Andreas Andresen at the age of twelve due to possible confusion. He continued his father's business in Flensburg, which was initially located at Holm 37 and then at Holm 39. He distilled brandy and corn and traded in flax, salt and iron.

On April 29, 1794, Andresen married Agathe Catharina Jebsen (Jepsen) (born September 30, 1775) from Husum , whose father Josias Jebsen was the mayor there. Her mother was Agathe Catharina Nansen. The Andresen couple had two sons and a daughter.

Andresen embodied the Biedermeier in the city and followed the aims of the Enlightenment. In particular, he wanted to remove outdated conditions and advocated progress. His aim was to provide young people with a good education that would guide them to reason and virtue. In addition, he was shaped by sensitivity and the associated feeling for nature, which, however, did not contradict each other. He wrote numerous occasional poems of high linguistic quality about his impressions, but these had no lasting meaning. He also wrote several "chants".

In 1797 Andresen took over the office of church jury in the parish of the Nikolaikirche . In doing so, he was particularly committed to the school system and in 1807 played an important role in the reorganization of Flensburg schools. In later years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Wilhelminen Free Schools. As the first head of the deaconess hospital , he founded the Sunday school for craftsmen and in 1819 the city savings bank. He also worked several times in the city's poor sector.

As an important sponsor of the Flensburg Theater, Andresen also appeared on the stage as an amateur actor. In addition to the existing civil guard (Friedrichsgarde), to which only wealthy citizens had access, he founded the "Christian Guard" in 1799. He headed this guard for middle-class citizens himself until 1824.

Andresen demanded in word and in writing that the numerous existing parish courtyards be abolished and a new communal cemetery be created outside the city. Thus, in 1813, the old cemetery was created .

As a deputy appointed on March 1, 1804, Andresen took over the office of city treasurer from 1807 to 1814. On July 23, 1814, he was elected Senator. On November 1, 1828, he was given the title of "agent" as a real chancellery. The office of the second mayor of the city (more precisely as mayor for St. Nikolai), to which he had been elected on May 17, 1832, he could no longer take up.

literature

• Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Andresen, Andreas Peter . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 38–39