Daniel Meinertzhagen (politician, 1733)

Daniel Meinertzhagen (born September 14, 1733 in Bremen , † June 12, 1807 in Bremen) was a German businessman , politician and councilor of Bremen .

biography

Meinertzhagen was the son of the businessman and senator Daniel Meinertzhagen (1697–1765), whose grandfather had immigrated from Cologne around 1680, and Anna nee. Harms from the house of the Anton Harms merchant family. He was the brother-in-law of Mayor Georg Gröning (1745-1825). He was married to Margarethe Gröning and, after her death, his second marriage to the senator's daughter Gesche Löning, with whom he had ten children.

After completing his commercial training, he traveled through the Netherlands, England, France, Spain, Switzerland and southern Germany from 1756 to 1757. In 1757 he entered his father's business. In 1766 he succeeded Isaac Meinertzhagen as councilor in the Bremen council . He held this office until his death.

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .
• H. Gerdes: The fate of a Bremen merchant family, part II . In: Weser newspaper . Bremen September 1921.
• Georgina Meinertzhagen: A Bremen Family . Reprint: Memphis / Tennessee, General Books 2010, ISBN 978-1-154-64262-9 . (contains the travel diary of his European trip in English from pages 10 to 52).