Friedrich Wilhelm Hirt (bell founder)

Friedrich Wilhelm Hirt (born October 5, 1789 in Lübeck ; † April 15, 1871 there ) was a German bell founder and the last council founder of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Ratsgießhaus in Lübeck

Hirt was the son of a Litzen brother from Lübeck . He learned the foundry trade with Lübeck's council founder Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré in the foundry on the Lastadie and then went on a journey for eight years , which took him to Kassel, Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. In the spring of 1817 he came back and became Landré's journeyman.

In 1819 he was appointed council casting master as Landré's successor. He acquired Lübeck citizenship in January 1820 and married Elsabe Christine Caroline Berg (1780–1833) in the same year. As a council pouring master, like his predecessors, he was also responsible for fire protection in Lübeck as a syringe master . He was released from this office in 1850 due to illness. He retained the office of council founder until 1858, when he asked for a dismissal due to illness, which was granted to him at Michaelmas in 1858. At the same time he joined the older man as Office of Rotgießer back.

After detailed deliberation, the Senate decided not to fill the office anymore, as there were now industrial foundries and the reorganization of the fire extinguishing system had made the council casting master superfluous as a fire protection expert. That was the end of a three centuries old institution. The Ratsgießhaus was rented to his assistants, the Redder brothers, who worked in it until it was demolished in 1886, but only carried out small jobs. The Lübeck bell casting tradition was continued from 1878 by the M & O Ohlsson brothers until the middle of the 20th century.

plant

Hirt created around 30 bells for churches in Lübeck, in the Lübeck countryside, in Mecklenburg and Holstein. Its bells are without figurative representations, but mostly decorated with a lace strip on the upper edge and sometimes with ornaments in the Empire style.

literature

• Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913, pp. 267-269.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Litzenbruder = sworn bale binders, packhands, or unloaders ( Adelung )

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré	Lübeck council founder 1820–1858	(not occupied again)