Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth

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Lutterroth, around 1847. Daguerreotype by Hermann Biow (detail)

Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth (born September 23, 1783 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † December 20, 1867 in Hamburg ) was a businessman and Hamburg senator.

Life

Lutteroth came from a wealthy family of cloth merchants and grew up in Mühlhausen. He later attended a commercial school in Magdeburg before completing an apprenticeship in his father's trading house in Mühlhausen. He then spent two years as a volunteer in a Lausanne trading company and traveled to the surrounding regions. In 1804 he rejoined his father's company. The economic situation in Mühlhausen was not very favorable, due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 Mühlhausen had finally lost its status as a free imperial city and was annexed to Prussia , and from autumn 1806 the continental barrier hindered business. Lutteroth left Mulhouse and, after some search, settled in Königsberg in order to start with very lucrative smuggling of goods from there, bypassing the continental barrier. Lutteroth built up an extensive network of trade relationships. When Königsberg and East Prussia were occupied by French troops, Lutteroth moved to St. Petersburg .

After the war he settled in Hamburg and founded the banking and trading company Lutteroth & Co. in 1815 , which in the following years became one of the leading houses in Hamburg. Lutteroth continued to do well and he was able to grow the considerable fortune he had made during the time of the continental lockdown. With this financial security he turned to politics. He initially worked for a few years in the Commerzdeputation and served there as President from June 1833 to June 1834.

senate

On March 9, 1835, Lutteroth was co-opted into the Hamburg council. There he proved himself after some time through successful diplomatic missions. For example, in 1839 he negotiated an agreement with Prussia that was advantageous for Hamburg , in which Hamburg's trade with Prussia was placed under the same conditions as Prussia's trade with the Kingdom of the Netherlands . In 1848 he was briefly the Hamburg envoy in the Bundestag of the German Confederation ; he was the only merchant who ever sat on this board. In the same year he was elected to the Hamburg Constituent Assembly, as its vice-president he temporarily served. In the following year, Lutteroth was elected alongside Heinrich Geffcken by the council in the so-called Nine Commission , which was supposed to revise the Hamburg constitution and largely formulate the electoral laws of 1859. Even if the reform failed at first, Lutteroth quietly worked on the implementation of this reform in the years that followed. In 1850, Lutteroth was elected by the hereditary citizenship to represent Hamburg in the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament. In Hamburg he also worked at the higher court before it was separated from the council in 1860. After a tough, almost ten-year struggle, the constitutional reforms were carried out, in 1859 the reform of the citizenship was implemented and a citizenship was elected for the first time and in 1860 the council of the Hamburg Senate was reformed.

After the reform of the council to the Senate, Lutteroth was elected second mayor, also as thanks for his reform work for several years in a row. That was the highest position within the Hamburg Senate that a businessman could achieve. This office of deputy mayor was usually reserved for a lawyer; The fact that Lutteroth held this office several times shows the high reputation Lutteroth enjoyed in Hamburg. In the almost 60 years that followed, this honor was to be bestowed on two further commercial senators: Max Theodor Hayn in 1887 and William Henry O'Swald in 1908 and 1909. Lutteroth died in office, and Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge was elected as his successor .

family

Ascan Wilh. Lutteroth on the left pillar (at the top), family burial site Friedhof Ohlsdorf

Lutteroth had been with Juliane Friederike Charlotte, born in 1808 . von Legat (born May 13, 1786 in Magdeburg; † January 6, 1872 in Hamburg). Since there were later other bearers of the same name, it was sometimes called the Lutteroth Legate . One of the couple's sons was the lawyer, landowner and politician Christian Lutteroth (born November 7, 1822 in Hamburg; † September 1, 1896 there). The grandson Ascan Lutteroth was a well-known landscape painter; his sister Anna Lutteroth was married to the zoologist Theodor Eimer . His great-grandson, a nephew of the landscape painter, was the Hamburg district court director and genealogist Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth .

The Lutteroth family burial site is located at grid square S 25 (at the beginning of Talstraße ) in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery : the central granite rock is flanked by two pillars from the former St. Johannis burial ground , with Senator Ascan Wilh at the top on the left pillar . Lutteroth .

Honors

The Lutterothstraße in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel bears since 1906 in his honor his name, it was named after the Lutterothstraße .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Information deviating from the information in the NDB on the basis of a certified extract from the marriage, baptism and death registers at the main church in Mühlhausen, confirmed by the superintendent Heinrich August König on March 9, 1816.
  2. ^ Gerhard Ahrens :  Lutteroth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 564 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. (No longer available online.) Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hk24.de
  4. ↑ Address 1867: "Lutteroth Legat, Ascan Wilhelm, Senator, in the following company: Lutteroth & Co., Kaufl., B.Cto. AW Lutteroth Legat & Col, new wall cream 6", in: Hamburg address book at Hamburg State Library . Daughter Helene Hell (1829-1904) was married to her cousin Erhard Wilhelm Egbert von Legat for the first time.
  5. ↑ Hamburg's street names tell the story of Christian Hanke, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, 4th edition, p. 110, ISBN 3-929229-41-2
personal data
SURNAME Lutteroth, Ascan Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lutteroth legacy, Ascan Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1867
Place of death Hamburg