Elmenhorst (family)
Elmenhorst is the name of a family of free farmers from Westphalia from the Carolingian era and an old Hamburg upper-class merchant family.
history
The family goes back to the Reichshof Elmenhorst , which was first mentioned in a document in 1292, but was created in Carolingian times, and was located near today's town of Waltrop , Recklinghausen district . The family there died out with the last heir in 1832.
The family, now based in Hamburg , Bremen , Berlin , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Bochum , Friedrichshafen , Guatemala City , San Francisco and Santiago de Chile , goes straight back to Hof Elmenhorst in Estorf , Vogtei Landesbergen, in the county Hoya is occupied. The existence of this farm is first mentioned in a document in 1325 in a confirmation of the enfeoffment of the Herford Monastery , which was founded as a spin-off of the Reichshof Elmenhorst in Westphalia. In all later documents the farm was given the name Elmenhorst until the Meier rights were replaced in 1842.
In the last half of the 17th century, Hans Hinrich Elmenhorst (1697 – before 1747), a branch of the family, settled in Hamburg. His son Hinrich Christian Elmenhorst (1726–1779) founded the company "Elmenhorst & Co." in Altona as a merchant and partner shipowner . With the sale of Lüneburg salt and the import and export to and from the Mediterranean Sea and the French Atlantic ports, he was an extremely successful merchant who left behind the considerable sum of 100,000 Courantmarks (the equivalent of around 24 tons of fine silver) and so that one of the wealthiest citizens of Altona was.
After his death, two of his sons, Peter Daniel Elmenhorst (1767–1816) and Christian Friedrich Elmenhorst (1766–1807), continued the company under the name Elmenhorst Gebrüder . After completing a commercial apprenticeship with his uncle, the Altona merchant and patron Peter Theodor Zeise (1730-1800), he went to Bordeaux for five years at the JC Brauer trading company, before joining his father's company in 1792. He left no offspring. His brother Peter Daniel initially started an apprenticeship at the Hinrich & Johann Martin Brauer company before becoming a co-owner of the Elmenhorst brothers . During the continental blockade, he managed the brig Vigilantica from 1805-1806 , which drove regularly from Tönning in North Frisia to Messina (Sicily) and Barcelona. In this way he was able to continue trading goods smuggled in from England by Tönning. In addition to the import and export business, Elmenhorst Gebrüder also ran a flourishing candle foundry in Altona, which was sold in 1826 for a large profit.
In addition to his commercial activity, Peter Daniel Elmenhorst was increasingly involved in the social field. He was one of the co-founders of the Altona orphanage and the Altona support association, which served as the Altona savings bank for the poorer population. The Hamburger Sparkasse developed from this association in 1827 .
The Elmenhorst Gebrüder company was dissolved in 1876 as one of the oldest trading houses in Altona. Elmenhorststrasse in Hamburg-Altona was named after Peter Daniel Elmenhorst, as the Altonaer Sparkasse, which he co-founded, was located on this street.
Theodor Hinrich Elmenhorst (1801–1876) founded the four family lines that still exist today with his nine children, the Theodor Hinrichschen Ast (after Theodor Hinrich Elmenhorst, 1838–1883), the Walterschen Ast (after Walter Richard Elmenhorst, 1839–1894), the Percival branch (after John Percival Elmenhorst, 1841–1913) and the Friedrich branch (after Friedrich Wilhelm Elmenhorst, 1847–1908). The male firstborn of each tribe still bears the respective name as one of his first names. Due to the widespread marriage in the last 300 years, the family is linked to numerous old Hamburg merchant families, senatorial and mayor families.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Elmenhorst family, first attested in 1350, shows a horizontal wolf tang , a hunting device that was previously used to catch wolves.
Name bearer
- Geverhart Elmenhorst (1583–1621), philologist
- Hinrich Elmenhorst (1632–1704), theologian, hymn poet and writer of opera libretti
- Hans Hinrich Elmenhorst (1697 – before 1747), businessman
- Hinrich Christian Elmenhorst (1726–1779), merchant and shipping owner, founder and owner of "Elmenhorst Brothers"
- Peter Daniel Elmenhorst (1767–1816), businessman, owner of "Elmenhorst Gebrüder", co-founder of the orphanage and the "Altonaer support association", from which in 1827 the Hamburger Sparkasse developed
- Theodor Hinrich Elmenhorst (1801–1876), businessman in London and Altona, founder and owner of the "Elmenhorst Brothers" company in London
- Friedrich Wilhelm Elmenhorst (1847–1908), businessman, owner of the company "Elmenhorst & Co" in New York
- Wilhelm Ludwig Geverhart Elmenhorst (1890–1964), ethnologist and businessman, founder and owner of the company "Elmenhorst & Co" in Hamburg
- Kurt Wolfram Carlos Elmenhorst (1910–2000), businessman, scholar, Mayan researcher and collector of Mayan textiles
- Johann Hinrich Oswald Elmenhorst (1930–2011), chemist, toxicologist
- Mia Elmenhorst (1911–2013), UfA film actress
literature
- Hamburg Gender Book, Volume Fifteen, Volume 209 of the complete series, pp. 1–30, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999.
- Hamburg gender book , ninth volume, volume 127 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1961.