Eschenburg (family)

Family coat of arms in the window of the Eschenburg chapel in the Marienkirche

Eschenburg is the surname of a Lübeck- based family of red extinguishers - specialized tanners whose members rose to the top of the city patriciate as Hanseatic merchants and scholars in the 19th century . In the Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann members of the family under the name Huneus outlined.

The Eschenburg family can be found in Lübeck since the end of the 15th century. The common ancestor of the two well-known Lübeck branches of the Eschenburg family was the main pastor of the Jakobikirche

• Bernhard Eschenburg (pastor) (1762–1832), whose sons Georg Bernhard and Johann Daniel founded the two lines. He was married to Maria Dorothea Havemann , through whom her son inherited the timber business Jost Hinrich Havemann & Sohn .
  • Johann Daniel Eschenburg (1809–1884), senator and businessman in Lübeck, owner of the company Jost Hinrich Havemann & Sohn
    • Herrmann Eschenburg (1844–1920), businessman, senator and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, owner of the company Jost Hinrich Havemann & Sohn
      • Hermann Eschenburg (1872–1954), businessman and president of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce , owner of the company Jost Hinrich Havemann & Sohn
      • Karl Eschenburg (1877–1943), landowner and Prime Minister of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
    • Bertha Eschenburg (1846–1926), ⚭ 1865 with Hermann Wilhelm Fehling , Kuk consul and merchant in Lübeck, the city's national liberal member of the Reichstag
    • August Eschenburg (1848–1910), Prussian officer, most recently major general
  • Georg Bernhard Eschenburg (1811–1886), general practitioner in Lübeck, head of the Lübeck sanatorium 1838–1888
    • Bernhard Eschenburg (philologist) (1843–1931), philologist, senior teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck
    • Johann Georg Eschenburg (1844–1936), lawyer, Senate Secretary, Senator and Governing Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
      • Theodor Eschenburg (1876–1968), naval officer, commander SMS Vulkan , rear admiral of the Imperial Navy and adjudant general Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile in the Netherlands
        • Theodor Eschenburg (1904–1999), political scientist and politician, university professor in Tübingen
    • Theodor Eschenburg (physician) (1853–1921)

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925.
• Bernhard Eschenburg (ed.): News about the Eschenburg family in Lübeck. Third episode. Lübeck: Lübecker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft MBH, 1949
• Fritz Meyen :  Eschenburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 642 ( digitized version ).
• Theodor Eschenburg: So just listen: history and stories. Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-72185-7 , first published in 1995.
• Karl-Wolfgang Eschenburg: The Eschenburg family legacy. In: Der Wagen 2000, ISBN 3-87302-097-1 , pp. 83-88.
• Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lübeck Lexicon. Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-7777-X .

Web links

Commons : Eschenburg (Familie)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature about Eschenburg (family) in the state bibliography MV