Eduard Johns

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Eduard Johns (born August 11, 1803 in Hamburg ; † December 23, 1885 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and senator.

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Eduard Johns
Eduard Johns, engraving from ca.1835.

Johns did a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg and then worked very successfully in various companies. He partly led the business of his father, the tea broker and merchant Christian Jacob Johns (1781–1861), on. At the beginning of the 1830s, Johns was involved in the Hamburg municipal administration and belonged to various deputations and commissions. Johns was a member of the committee for the construction of the Hamburg-Bergedorfer railway , as well as the committee for the construction of the Berlin-Hamburg railway . In particular, it belonged to the one after the Hamburg fireDeputation of the Council and Citizens from June 16, 1842, which took care of the reconstruction of the destroyed city. Johns was elected to the Hamburg Constituent Assembly in 1848. In 1852 he gave away the painting Diana and Actaeon (Diana is surprised by Actaeon in her bath) by Hermann Steinfurth for the future collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . From 1859 Johns belonged to the Hamburg citizenship , from which he left again in January 1860 for health reasons. In 1864 he was one of the co-founders of the Neue Sparkasse , the forerunner of today's Hamburger Sparkasse .

On December 9, 1861, Johns was elected to the Hamburg Senate for the late Heinrich Geffcken , of which he was a member until he retired on December 31, 1868. William Henry O'Swald was elected to succeed him. Even after leaving the Senate, Johns remained active, among other things, he was a member of the administrative board of the Hamburg Zoo and the committee for the construction of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Johns was related to the owners of the Johns shipyard on the so-called Johns'sche Ecke on Großer Grasbrook in the Port of Hamburg , who also operated the first bathing ship on the Elbe. Adolph Johns and Rudolph Johns were his younger brothers.

The Johnsallee in the Hamburg district of Harvestehude was named after Johns.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862 , Hamburg 1909, p. 57
  • German Gender Book Volume 63; (Hamburg Gender Book, Vol. 8), Jhr. 1929, p. 160