Carsten Wilhelm Soltau

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Portrait (posthumous) Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (in the main church St. Michaelis ) by Hermann Wilhelm Soltau , 1838, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (born August 13, 1767 in Bergedorf ; † November 10, 1836 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant, President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , Oberalter and Maire- Adjoint of Hamburg during the French period in Hamburg .

Life

Carsten Wilhelm Soltau was born as the son of the timber merchant and mayor of Bergedorf Martin Wilhelm Soltau (born September 25, 1720 in Bergedorf; † July 31, 1801 there) and his third wife Anna Margarethe, nee Grapel (baptized March 16, 1743 in Bergedorf; † 25 September 1825 ibid) born in Bergedorf. Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau was a half-brother from his father's first marriage.

Carsten Wilhelm established himself as a merchant in Hamburg, was elected to the Bürgerzoll on October 3rd, 1793 , on April 12th, 1798 as an adjunct , on October 25th to the bread order, the cattle accise and the foreclosure , on October 10th, 1799 to the Bieraccise, 1800 to the head of the poor, 1801 to the lap and on November 10th as sub deacon , on July 10th 1802 war commissioner , 1804 to the Kalkhof and on August 4th of that year to the Commerz deputation ( renamed Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in 1867 ), whose President he was from May 1808 to April 1809. On November 23, 1809 he was elected to the Hamburg bank . On September 10, 1810, he became a senior adjunct of the Commerz deputation , and on December 29, he became a member of the deputation which, together with the council, should try to mitigate the misfortune of being annexed by France . On December 25, 1812 he became a jurat , on March 20, 1813 a member of the organizational deputation and on June 22, a deacon.

During the second French occupation, from June 1813, Carsten Wilhelm Soltau was appointed Deputy Mayor or Maire-Adjoint by the French administration , which annoyed some Hamburgers who would have preferred the old order. For this reason, after the occupation, Soltau wrote his Justification About My Administration as Adjunct-Maire in 1813 and 1814 and published it in 1815.

On December 23, 1818 he was elected to the deputation for the organization of the courts, on May 17, 1821 to the deputation of the customs question, on May 27, 1823 as head of the St. Johannis Monastery , in 1825 as coffin administrator and on October 12, 1829 into the great decision-making delegation on the customs question. In 1831 a cholera epidemic broke out in Hamburg , with the result that two citizens were chosen from each of the five parishes to support the respective senior elders in mastering the epidemic. Soltau was one of the ten chosen. In 1832 the epidemic subsided. On October 7, 1835, Soltau became senior age for the Michaelis parish and died on November 10, 1836.

Carsten Wilhelm Soltau was a Freemason , he was master of the chair of the Johannisloge Ferdinande Caroline to the three stars and thus also belonged to the Great Lodge of Hamburg .

With his wife Johanna Henriette Catharina, née Sprockhoff (born November 26, 1772 in Braunschweig ; † February 19, 1845), whom he married on October 16, 1796, he had two daughters and seven sons, including the painter Hermann Wilhelm Soltau , who painted it at least twice posthumously .

The painter and engraver Leonhard Heinrich Hessell also made a portrait of Carsten Wilhelm Soltau, which shows him at a young age and appeared as an aquatint . One sheet of the edition is in the graphic collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Publications

  • About my administration as Adjunct-Maire in the years 1813 and 1814. A manuscript for friends , Hamburg 1815.
  • Dedicated to the second Säcular-Feyer of the Hamburger Bank on February 22, 1819 , Meissner, Hamburg 1819.
  • The Hamburg sugar boilers with regard to their competition with the sugar boilers in the north and in the interior of Germany , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1820 ( digitized version ).
  • Illumination of a small writing: The Mystics and the Freethinkers , Hamburg 1828.
  • Echoes from the sanctuary , Hamburg 1836 (partly poetic descriptions of sermons by Seniors August Jacob Rambach ).
  • Several poems in the journal Nordischer Musenalmanach and other journals

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Data of Carsten Wilhelm Soltau's parents
  2. Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil activity and their families. Perthes, Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, pp. 340-345 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Carsten Wilhelm Soltau in Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau and the box on the website soltauhaus.de