Friedrich Georg Göthe

Memorial plaque for Friedrich Georg Göthe on the site of his workshop in downtown Frankfurt

Friedrich Georg Göthe (born September 6, 1657 in Kannawurf ; † November 10, 1730 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German master tailor , from 1705 guest owner at the Weidenhof in Frankfurt am Main and grandfather of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Life

Friedrich Georg Göthe was born in 1657 as the son of the farrier and later councilor in Artern / Unstrut Hans Christian Göthe (around 1633–1694) and Sibylla Göthe, née Werner . The trained cloth maker lived for some time in Lyon ; from this time on he wrote himself Göthé (with Accent Aigu ). As a devout Lutheran , he had to leave France after the edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685. He settled in Frankfurt am Main as a master tailor, where on April 18, 1687 he married Anna Elisabeth Lutz (born March 19, 1667 in Frankfurt am Main), with whom he had five children. By marrying, he also acquired Frankfurt citizenship . Since then he has written his name Goethe .

After the death of his first wife on August 6, 1700, he married Cornelia Schelhorn geb. Walther (born September 27, 1668 in Frankfurt am Main, † March 26, 1754 ibid), widow of the innkeeper Johannes Schelhorn , who died in 1704 . Through this marriage, Goethe became the owner of the Gasthof Zum Weidenhof an der Zeil , at that time one of the most distinguished inns in Frankfurt. In addition, he built an extensive wine shop ; this was the basis of the family fortune, which still ensured his grandson financial independence.

In 1710, the third of their three children, Johann Caspar Goethe , the father of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , was born. Friedrich Georg Goethe died in 1730 at the age of 73 and was buried in the Peterskirchhof . He left a fortune of around 100,000 guilders, which was great for the time . Since one of his sons from his first marriage, the master pewter Hermann Jacob Goethe , was a member of the Council of the Free Imperial City , his younger son Johann Caspar was denied advancement in the city patriciate .

literature

Heiner Boehncke , Hans Sarkowicz , Joachim Seng: Monsieur Göthé. Goethe's unknown grandfather. The other library, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-84477-0391-4 .
Richard Friedenthal : Goethe - his life and his time . German paperback publishing house, Munich 1980.
Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Nadine Kissmann, Andreas Schmölling: Private tutor Wilhelm series [1805-1843] A forgotten Arterner Goethe memory. heimatverein-aratora.de [1]
↑ Tilman Spreckelsen: He has the stature of the tailor: Goethe's grandfather? That's the rich and powerful citizen of Textor! The ancestors from the other side hardly played a role for the poet himself. A new book can help. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 22, 2017, p. 10.
^ Heinrich Düntzer: Goethe's family trees - a genealogical representation , Paderborn 1894, p. 93ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Göthe, Friedrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Grandfather of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kanna throw
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1730
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Nadine Kissmann, Andreas Schmölling: Private tutor Wilhelm series [1805-1843] A forgotten Arterner Goethe memory. heimatverein-aratora.de [1]

[2] Tilman Spreckelsen: He has the stature of the tailor: Goethe's grandfather? That's the rich and powerful citizen of Textor! The ancestors from the other side hardly played a role for the poet himself. A new book can help. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 22, 2017, p. 10.

[3] Heinrich Düntzer: Goethe's family trees - a genealogical representation , Paderborn 1894, p. 93ff.