Christian Heinrich Wätjen

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Wätjen bust in the Riensberg cemetery

Christian Heinrich Wätjen , also Christian Heinrich Waetjen , (born January 30, 1813 in Bremen , † February 28, 1887 in Bremen) was a German shipowner .

biography

CH Wätjen (seated in the middle, with hat on his knees) with family, Bremen-Blumenthal 1885
Louise Wätjen with her youngest children as " Caritas " by Carl Steinhäuser

Wätjen comes from a Bremen shipowner family and was trained in London and New York , where he made international connections. In 1837 he joined the shipping company and overseas trade DH Wätjen and Co. founded by his father Diedrich Heinrich Wätjen , one of the leading tobacco importers in Bremen and later at times the world's largest private sailing shipping company.

His own fleet of sailing ships also transported German emigrants to the USA and Australia . He also used his ships in the whaling business near Greenland and in the South Seas. The shipping company flag - a white W in a blue field - has become the symbol of the largest Bremen sailing ship fleet as the "Flying W".

His country estate in Bremen-Blumenthal , called “ Wätjens Schloss ”, was built between 1858 and 1864 in the neo-Gothic style . The property is surrounded by Wätjens Park , a landscape park that has been created at the same time and which has been restored since 2006 with a view to preserving the garden.
In 1858 the Villa Wätjen was built on Osterdeich 2 according to plans by Heinrich Müller .

Gut Altenrode

In 1872 Christian Heinrich Wätjen bought the Altenrode manor with around 205 hectares of arable land and forest. The Wätjen family still owns the Altenrode estate, which has been a listed building since 1982.

Wätjen was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen (grave location W 228, coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 35.5 ″  E ) The granite and bronze tomb, created according to plans by Heinrich Müller , is under monument protection.

In the tower hall of the Reformed Church in Blumenthal , the construction of which he “generously but not entirely unselfishly financed with 200,000 Reichstalers”, there is a bust with his image. This was originally in the memorial temple for CH and DH Wätjen in Wätjens Park, where a replica was set up on May 10, 2009.

family

Christian Heinrich Wätjen was married three times. On May 10, 1839, his first marriage was Louise, b. Delius (born September 4, 1818 in Bremen; † April 16, 1859 there). They had ten children.

  1. Diedrich Heinrich Wätjen (1840–1893), businessman ⚭ 1866 Anna Henriette Retemeyer (1847–1924)
    1. Christian Heinrich Emil Wätjen (1868–1932)
    2. August Wätjen
  2. Everhard Wätjen (1841–1909), manor owner ⚭ 1867 Hedwig Löbbecke (1845–922)
  3. Magdalene Christine Louise Wätjen (1843–1912) ⚭ August 23, 1862 Joseph Johannes Arnold Hachez (1828–1901), merchant in Bremen.
  4. Christian Louis Wätjen (1845–1900) ⚭ 1872 Josepha Lüling († 1895)
    1. Louis Wätjen
  5. Emma Helene Wätjen (1847-1858)
  6. Nicolaus Adolph Wätjen (* 1849)
  7. Hermann Nicolaus von Wätjen (1851–1911), manor owner, city councilor, councilor in Düsseldorf ⚭ 1880 Clara Antonia Vautier (1862–1944), daughter of the painter Benjamin Vautier
    1. Otto Christian Heinrich von Wätjen (1881–1942), painter ⚭ June 22, 1914 Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter
    2. Elisabeth Luise (Lilli) von Wätjen (1884–1966) ⚭ 1905 Paul Clemen (1866–1947), art historian
    3. Gerda Agnes von Wätjen (* 1886) ⚭ 1st marriage to Carl Friedberg (1872–1955), pianist; ⚭ 2nd marriage 1909 Hermann Haller (1880–1950), sculptor
    4. Hans Hermann von Wätjen (1905–1922)
  8. Louise Agnes Wätjen (* 1853) ⚭ 1873 Friedrich Georg Ernst Matthes (1848–1906), son of Mathieu Elie Matthes from Duisburg and owner of a cotton mill in Düsseldorf
  9. Georg Wilhelm Wätjen (1857–1928) ⚭ 1883 Alice Heinze
  10. Johannes Carl Wätjen (* 1859)

Honors

The Wätjenstrasse was named after the shipowners Diedrich Wätjen and Christian Heinrich Wätjen.

literature

  • Hans Wätjen: White W in the blue field. The Bremen shipping company and overseas trade DH Wätjen & Co. 1821–1921 . Niedersachsen-Druck, Wolfsburg 1983, ISBN 3-568-93245-8 .
  • Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world . European Publishing House, 1994, ISBN 3-551-88256-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Garbrecht: The Wätjen Family ( Memento from May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), (University of Bremen)
  2. ^ History of Altenrode
  3. Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / refo-blumenthal.de
  4. waetjens-park.de
  5. Erika Thies: “Caritas” is available in two versions . Weser-Kurier from September 28, 2009, page 4.
  6. ^ Local family book Bremen and Vegesack: Wätjen
  7. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , "Ships and chocolate twice Joseph Hachez" (University of Bremen)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-user.uni-bremen.de
  8. Go. Government Council v. Wätjen † September 3, 1911 on his estate near Goslar (Altenrode) , in the Rhine and Düssel (No. 37) on September 9, 1911
  9. ^ Family tree: Hermann Nicolaus von Wätjen