August Mencke

Carl August Friedrich Mencke (born September 3, 1822 in Itzehoe ; † December 21, 1862 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer.

Life

After attending the school of scholars in Glückstadt , August Mencke studied law in Bonn, Heidelberg, Berlin and Kiel from 1839 to 1842. Between 1848 and 1851 he served in the Schleswig-Holstein army . After his release he opened the A. Mencke photo studio in Hamburg in 1852 at Neuer Wall 6 . In 1853 “A. Mencke et Comp. ”Moved to Neuen Wall 52. The well-known daguerreotypist Hermann Biow had previously taken pictures here. In 1855 he moved his studio to Bleichenbrücke 21. After the untimely death of August Mencke, his widow continued the studio and called it the Photographic Institute A. Mencke & Cie. In 1866 she moved the studio back to Neuer Wall for the next two years.

On July 5, 1853, he became a lieutenant in the 7th Company of the 1st Battalion of the Hamburg Citizens' Army .

A. Mencke & Co

His widow Albertine moved to Wandsbek in 1870 after they remarried . Since then the publisher has operated as A. Mencke & Co. Wandsbeck b. Hamburg . At that time, the later famous photographer Cornelius Schaarwächter worked as a young man and produced pigment prints for a short period of time . The publisher specialized in taking pictures of German mansions and castles. It can be assumed that numerous objects were photographed for the first time. The publisher usually sold the albumin prints produced using the contact process as rolled onto cardboard.

Numerous pictures from the publisher are in the possession of the Mecklenburg Foundation , formerly in Ratzeburg and now in Schwerin . From 2009 onwards, they were shown in the exhibition Manors through the ages in Schwerin and Neustrelitz , among others . The exhibition can be seen permanently in front of the concert barn of Ulrichshusen Castle . The Schwerin State Main Archive, the Mecklenburg Folklore Museum Schwerin-Mueß and the collection of the Coburg State Foundation on the Veste Coburg also have a large collection of Mencke recordings .

Waal Castle before 1870
Wurzach Castle before 1870
Happy Return Castle before 1870
Neudorf Castle around 1870

Awards

“Honorable recognition” on the occasion of the exhibition in Brussels in 1856.

literature

Jasper Kätze: company from the early days. A. Mencke's photographic publishing house . In: Bürgererverein Wandsbek von 1848 eV (Hrsg.): Wandsbek informativ , 3 and 4/1998
Sabine Bock : Manor houses through the ages. Booklet accompanying the exhibition by the Mecklenburg Foundation. Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2008, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-940207-73-9
Wilhelm Weimar : The daguerreotype in Hamburg : (1st supplement to the yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions, XXXII, 1914,) Verlag Otto Meissner, Hamburg, 1915 (with images in the back of the book), p. 44, digitized .

Remarks

↑ The officers of this army who daguerreotyped after retiring from military service also included Carl von Zeska (1819–1901) and Carl Friedrich la Croix (Lacroix). Both temporarily announced "Neuer Wall 52" as their studio address. From a communication (Kiel, April 2nd) in the (Hamburg) Börsen-Halle of April 3rd, 1851 (page 4) it emerges that la Croix captain in the 1st Infantry Battallion (Glückstadt) and Mencke second lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry Battaillon (Lütjenburg) were.
^ Advertisement by Carl Friedrich la Croix ("Hauptmann aD") in the Altonaer Nachrichten (February 5, 1853, page 3), he now lives in the Photography Institute of A. Mencke & Co.
↑ It is not known who August Mencke accepted as a partner = "et Comp.".
↑ Wilhelm Weimar, Die Daguerreotype in Hamburg , p. 44. (The Neuer Wall 52 building was directly on the corner of Bleichenbrücke. Possibly the address “Bleichenbrücke 21” was just an additional house entrance.)
^ Officier-Wahlen in Bürger-Militair . In: Hamburger Nachrichten , August 2, 1853, page 3
↑ Jasper Kätze: company from the early days. A. Mencke's photographic publishing house
^ The pigment prints by Mencke & Co in Hamburg . In: Hermann Vogel (Hrsg.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 5th year, Louis Gerschel Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1869, p. 234, digitized .
↑ Including panorama of Ballenstedt , [several] views from Ballenstedt: Castle with Schlossteich, Schlossstrasse, Alexanderplatz and Ziegenberg and album of the Brinckmeier'schen Institute: Stammhaus, Schulhaus, Haus v. Holstein, institute garden, Blücherplatz and mausoleum. In: Dr. E. Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Korrespondenz , 10th year, Verl. D. photographic correspondence, Vienna, 1873, p. 199.
^ Wilhelm Horn: Photographisches Journal , 7th volume, pp. 33–34.

Web links

Wikisource: Photographic Correspondence - Sources and Full Texts

Wikisource: Photographic Communications - Sources and Full Texts

Wikisource: Photographic Journal - Sources and Full Texts

Wikisource: Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions (1911–1915) - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Address books for Hamburg - sources and full texts

Commons : August Mencke - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sabine Bock: Mencke photos. Historic manor house photographs from the Mecklenburg Foundation. Mecklenburg Foundation, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
Photographs from the studio and publisher August Mencke & Co, Wandsbek near Hamburg. In: Virtual State Museum for Mecklenburg. Mecklenburg Foundation, accessed on March 6, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mencke, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mencke, Carl August Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1862
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] The officers of this army who daguerreotyped after retiring from military service also included Carl von Zeska (1819–1901) and Carl Friedrich la Croix (Lacroix). Both temporarily announced "Neuer Wall 52" as their studio address. From a communication (Kiel, April 2nd) in the (Hamburg) Börsen-Halle of April 3rd, 1851 (page 4) it emerges that la Croix captain in the 1st Infantry Battallion (Glückstadt) and Mencke second lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry Battaillon (Lütjenburg) were.

[2] Advertisement by Carl Friedrich la Croix ("Hauptmann aD") in the Altonaer Nachrichten (February 5, 1853, page 3), he now lives in the Photography Institute of A. Mencke & Co.

[3] It is not known who August Mencke accepted as a partner = "et Comp.".

[4] Wilhelm Weimar, Die Daguerreotype in Hamburg , p. 44. (The Neuer Wall 52 building was directly on the corner of Bleichenbrücke. Possibly the address “Bleichenbrücke 21” was just an additional house entrance.)

[5] Officier-Wahlen in Bürger-Militair . In: Hamburger Nachrichten , August 2, 1853, page 3

[6] Jasper Kätze: company from the early days. A. Mencke's photographic publishing house

[7] The pigment prints by Mencke & Co in Hamburg . In: Hermann Vogel (Hrsg.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 5th year, Louis Gerschel Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1869, p. 234, digitized .

[8] Including panorama of Ballenstedt , [several] views from Ballenstedt: Castle with Schlossteich, Schlossstrasse, Alexanderplatz and Ziegenberg and album of the Brinckmeier'schen Institute: Stammhaus, Schulhaus, Haus v. Holstein, institute garden, Blücherplatz and mausoleum. In: Dr. E. Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Korrespondenz , 10th year, Verl. D. photographic correspondence, Vienna, 1873, p. 199.

[9] Wilhelm Horn: Photographisches Journal , 7th volume, pp. 33–34.