Elisabeth Ohlendorff

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Elisabeth Ohlendorff (born November 22, 1838 as Elisabeth Martens in Hamburg ; † April 18, 1928 there ) was the German author of an extensive diary.

Live and act

Elisabeth Ohlendorff was born as the daughter of the timber merchant Johann Friedrich Martens, who lived at Hammer Baum in Hamburg-Hamm . During her confirmation in 1854 she made the acquaintance of Heinrich Ohlendorff , whom she married on September 4, 1858. From 1860 the couple lived in the Martens house on Mittelstrasse (today Carl-Petersen-Strasse) in Hamm. In May 1859, Elisabeth Ohlendorff gave birth to their son Johann Heinrich, who died eight months later. In the following years the couple had more children: Clara Elisabeth (* 1861), Susanne Elisabeth (* 1862), Magdalene Elisabeth (* 1864), Walter Heinrich (* 1865), Meta Elisabeth, known as Lilli (* 1867), Gertrud Elisabeth ( * 1869) and Frieda Elisabeth (* 1871).

In 1869 Heinrich Ohlendorff acquired a 60,000 square meter plot of land on Schwarzen Strasse in Hamm, on which the architect Martin Haller built a city villa from 1871, which the family lived in from 1873. In 1874 Elisabeth Ohlendorff gave birth to their son Heinrich Kurt, whose baptism was celebrated there on December 12 of the same year. On February 6, 1875, the family held a public masquerade ball to present the new residence. In August 1880 Elisabeth Ohlendorff had the tenth child with Heinrich Hans. As he was very musical, he was given a Walcker organ for confirmation . With the instrument he later played concerts and compositions by Max Reger , who belonged to the circle of friends of the Ohlendorffs.

Elisabeth Ohlendorff had several siblings. Two of her sisters named Amalia and Susanne married the Heinrich Ohlendorffs brothers.

Diaries

Elisabeth Ohlendorff kept diaries from 1880 to March 6, 1928. There are 45 handwritten volumes that are kept in the Hamburg State Archives. In it, she described her life as a housewife and mother of ten children and reported on her tasks as a host of social events, to which hunting dinners, musical soirees and the then famous Ohlendorff's "racing breakfasts", which took place on the morning of the horse race at the Horner Rennbahn , belonged. Elisabeth Ohlendorff's daily logs are an important source for local researchers and research into the living conditions of a wealthy family from the early days of the company .

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SURNAME Ohlendorff, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martens, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of a diary
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1928
Place of death Hamburg