Anton Diedrich Schröder
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Anton Diedrich Schröder , also Anthon Diederich Schröder (born February 8, 1779 in Hamburg ; † June 9, 1855 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and senior citizen .
Life
Anton Diedrich Schröder was the second eldest son of the Hamburg mayor Christian Matthias Schröder and his wife Louise, nee. Mutzenbecher, a daughter of Samuel Dietrich Mutzenbecher . Christian Matthias Schröder was his older brother, Johann Heinrich Schröder was one of his four younger brothers.
At the end of the 1790s he and his older brother joined the father's company, CM Schröder , while the other brothers set up branches in London , Riga and St. Petersburg . The trading company flourished and survived the crises of the coalition wars and the French era in Hamburg , since 1807 under the direction of Christian Matthias (Jr.) and Anton Diedrich Schröder.
Anton Diedrich Schröder took on a large number of public offices in Hamburg, but could not become a senator because his brother was admitted to the council in 1821. Anton Diedrich was first elected war commissioner on January 18, 1806, and in 1809 he was appointed to the fortification commission. After the end of the French era, he was accepted into the stamp deputation on December 29, 1814 and, in 1815, citizen military commissioner and inn manager. In 1817 he came to the commercial court as an assessor . In 1820 he rose to the position of Commerzdeputier ; In the year of office 1823/24 he was the successor of Martin Joseph Haller President of the Deputation, today's Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . In 1824 he became a member of the building deputation, in 1825 a finance citizen , and in 1827 Jurat at the main church of Sankt Petri . In 1835 he was elected to the Debt Administration Deputation and in 1841 to the Revision Commission . On June 16, 1842, now in his sixties and thus a member of the second highest of the bourgeois colleges in the Hanseatic city, he was elected to the fire deputation that organized the reconstruction of the city after the Hamburg fire . On July 19, 1844, he was accepted as the successor to Nikolaus von Beseler (1769–1845) in the College of the Elderly , the civic counterpart of the council at the time.
Since April 13, 1809 he was married to Maria Elisabeth (Mary, 1785–1834), daughter of the Senator Johann Gabe and his wife Franziska Felicia, born from Lancaster. Hitchcock (1746-1820). The couple had 5 sons and 3 daughters, including
- Maria Franziska (1810–1898), married to Heinrich Johann Merck (1804–1835), the son of Heinrich Johann Merck
- Johanna Luise (1812–1897), married to Carl Mönckeberg
- Anthon (1813–1896), married to his cousin Francisca Henriette (1821–1902), daughter of Johann Heinrich Schröder
- Alexander (1818–1896), merchant and from 1852 Hanseatic consul in Trieste
Three years after his death, the Christ trading house collapsed . Matthias Schröder & Co. together in 1858 as a result of the economic crisis of 1857 .
literature
- Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, OCLC 844917815 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed on May 26, 2020]). , P. 355
- Richard Roberts: Schroders. Merchants & Bankers. Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 1992, ISBN 0-333-44511-2
- Herwarth von Schade: On the harmony and welfare of this good city: 475 years of senior citizens' council in Hamburg . Convent, Hamburg 2003, OCLC 53903206 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ On the family, see Roberts (Lit.) and the line of genealogy in Deutsches Geschlechtbuch 23 (1903), pp. 260 ff
- ^ Roberts (Lit.), p. 18
- ↑ Public offices according to Buek (lit.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Anton Diedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Anthon Diederich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hamburg merchant and senior citizen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1855 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |