David Christopher Mettlerkamp

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David Christopher Mettlerkamp 1825, lithograph by Heinrich Joachim Herterich

David Christopher Mettlerkamp (* June 8, 1774 in Hamburg - other information: May 1774; † July 25, 1850 ibid) was a Hamburg-based lead coverer , officer and politician .

Life

David Mettlerkamp was a master lead decker and manufacturer of lightning rods. At the suggestion of Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus, his father Mathias Andreas Mettlerkamp had already installed Germany's first lightning rod on the main church of St. Jacobi in 1769 . Mettlerkamp became famous for his groundbreaking analysis of a lightning strike in the tower of the Ratskeller in Harburg .

During the campaign from 1813 to 1814 against the Napoleonic occupation forces, he was the commander of the victorious Hanseatic Citizens Guard . Previously, sentenced to death by the French, he fled to Mecklenburg , where he was able to set up a volunteer force. With this he moved as a lieutenant colonel on May 31, 1814 in Hamburg. Then he was considered a Hamburg folk hero. Mettlerkamp stood up for the resilience of the residents of a republican city-state, who, according to his ideas, should join together in a “citizens' arms cooperative”.

After the occupation ended in 1815, Mettlerkamp began to buy paintings at auctions in Hamburg. In 1817 Mettlerkamp co-founded the Kunstverein in Hamburg , one of the oldest such associations in Germany. Mettlerkamp owned a cabinet with 50 paintings from the Dutch school, a collection of original etchings sorted by school and a collection of hand drawings. In 1825 Mettlerkamp and his family left Hamburg for Kishinev , the then capital of Bessarabia (now Moldova), which is why large parts of his collection were auctioned off by Georg Ernst Harzen in May 1825 . In 1827 Mettlerkamp returned to Hamburg. He became a manufacturer and founded the New Hamburg Ironworks on Grasbrook in 1829 . However, the company was liquidated in 1833 following the death of his son.

Mettlerkamp on the collective grave of the citizen militia

In 1848 Mettlerkamp was the senior president of the Hamburg Constituent Assembly (Constituent Assembly). Since 1842 he has participated in the debate about a constitution and a new civic participation that started again after the Hamburg fire .

Since 1798 he was a member of the Hamburg Masonic Lodge Zum rothen Adler .

Mettlerkamp was married to Auguste Amalie Christiane Curio (1788-1854) for the second time . She gave birth to numerous children.

On the collective tomb Bürgermilitair in the area of Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery , Cemetery Ohlsdorf , is reminiscent of David Christopher Mettlerkamp. Several streets in Hamburg-Hamm are named after Mettlerkamp and other citizens of the victorious militia.

Works

  • Description of the trace of a lightning bolt when the weather struck the tower of the Rathskeller in Harburg on April 16, 1800 and the lightning conductor applied to it. With an addition by D (octor) J. A. H. Reimarus , Hamburg, 1800.
  • About Hamburg's defense in the spring of 1813. - The Lord v. Opposite Hess “agonies of the Republic of Hamburg”. Hamburg 1816, 150 pp.
  • Constitutional proposals for Hamburg. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1849.

literature

Portraits

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Ahrens: Mettlerkamp . In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 3rd, updated edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0179-1 , p. 323 f.
  2. ↑ Werner von Melle :  Mettlerkamp, ​​David Christopher . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 527 f.
  3. ↑ Dingedahl: 2. The collector . In: David Christopher Mettlerkamp. Art dilettante, collector, ... , p. 86.
  4. ↑ Franklin Kopitzsch : "[...] the thwarted hope, the swaying of opinions, the various parties [...]" - Hamburg and the revolution of 1848/1849. In: Beutin, Hoppe Kopitzsch (ed.): The German Revolution of 1848/49 and Northern Germany - Contributions to the conference from May 15 to 17, 1998 in Hamburg. Published by Peter Lang, Bern / New York / Paris 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Mettlerkamp, ​​David Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mettlerkamp, ​​David Christoffer; Mettlerkamp, ​​David Christian; Mettlerkamp, ​​Daniel Christopher; Mettlerkamp, ​​Diedrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1850
Place of death Hamburg