Ernst Franz Witting

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Ernst Franz Witting

Ernst Franz Witting ( baptized November 22, 1761 in Hildesheim ; † April 5, 1818 in Braunschweig ), in 1792 Witting bought a cleaning business in Braunschweig , which became the E. F. Witting fashion house , which existed 181 years before it was sold in 1974. Since 1974 there is a branch of the company Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg) in the business premises .

Life

Ernst Franz was the youngest of five sons of Hildesheim pastor Friedrich Witting (1725–1762) and his wife Martha Catharina, nee. Storre. Ernst Franz did an apprenticeship in a linen shop in Braunschweig . In 1792, at the age of 31, he founded the “EF Witting” fashion house named after him in Schuhstrasse by acquiring and continuously expanding a clothing store .

Ernst Franz Witting was also involved in charitable work. It is said that during the flood of 1808 he drove through the flooded streets of Braunschweig in a washing trough to see Friedrich Henneberg , the prefect of the Oker department , to convince him that the frozen locks of the Oker could only be opened by cannon fire. After this was done, the water finally flowed out through the open locks. Together with other Braunschweig merchants, Witting then organized a collection to help the injured residents through the most urgent need.

family

In 1794 Ernst Franz Witting married Regina Elisabeth Conradine, b. Meyer (1764-1800). After his first wife died in childbirth , he married Johanna Wilhelmine, born in 1802. Henrici (1777-1859). He had nine children, including the daughter Elisabeth "Betty" (1803-1840), who married the classical philologist and teacher August Krüger on April 4, 1831 , and the son Ludwig, called Louis (1800-1850), who from 1825 to continued his father's business after his death.

The Braunschweig theologian and author Johann Carl Friedrich Witting and the Hanover court building officer Diedrich Christian Ludwig Witting were his cousins .

literature

  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: EF Witting , In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .
  • Carsten Witting: Witting family from Lüchow (Part 2) , In: Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , Issue 3 / 3rd quarter 2011, p. 102
  • EF Witting: 175 years of EF Witting. A German trading house 1793–1968 , Braunschweig 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EF Witting: 175 years of EF Witting. A German trading house 1793–1968 , 8
  2. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: EF Witting , In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 250
  3. ^ City chronicle at www.braunschweig.de, entry September 26, 1974
  4. ↑ 150 year old fashion house , In: Braunschweiger Landeszeitung from January 15, 1943
  5. ^ Paul Zimmermann :  Krüger, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 403 f.
  6. ^ EF Witting: 175 years of EF Witting. A German trading house 1793–1968 , p. 15
  7. ↑ Carsten Witting: Family Witting from Lüchow (Part 2) , In: Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , Issue 3 / 3rd quarter 2011, pp. 95–115
personal data
SURNAME Witting, Ernst Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 22, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1818
Place of death Braunschweig