Arnold Amsinck (businessman)
Arnold Amsinck (* 1579 in Hamburg ; † January 31, 1656 on Nordstrand ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur.
Together with his older brother Rudolf Amsinck , he took over the company of his father Willem Amsinck , a cloth merchant who immigrated from the Spanish Netherlands , in 1618 . In 1624, both brothers acquired dyke rights on what was then the North Sea island of Strand and began to dike large areas there. The newly won land, the "Amsinck- Koog ", was largely lost again in the disastrous Burchardi flood in 1634. While Rudolf died in 1636, Arnold stuck to the plan to regain the lost territories and even bought land. But the poor quality of the soil and the shortage of labor in the devastated land ruined the project. After Amsinck had lost almost all of his fortune, the work had to be stopped around 1650. Amsinck stayed on Nordstrand, where he died a few years later.
Today only the name of the Hamburg Hallig still reminds of the owners of the former "Amsinck-Koog".
The Husum writer Albert Petersen (1883-1943) published the novel "Arnold Amsinck" in 1921, which was re-edited by Arno Bammé and Thomas Steensen in the series "Nordfriesland im Roman" with detailed explanations and a biographical sketch about Amsinck.
literature
- Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Amsinck, Arnold . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 20-21 .
- Cesar Amsinck: The Amsinck family from the Netherlands and Hamburg. An attempt at a family history. Vol. 1, Hamburg 1886. Digitized
- Arno Bammé and Thomas Steensen: Afterword. In: Albert Petersen: Arnold Amsinck, Roman, Husum 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-794-1 , pp. 271-344.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amsinck, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hamburg businessman and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1579 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1656 |
| Place of death | North beach |