Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens

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Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens (born July 3, 1823 in Bremen ; died August 28, 1895 there ) was a German silver goods manufacturer and goldsmith .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens was a son of the Bremen goldsmith master and elder of the Bremen goldsmith's office Martin Heinrich Wilkens and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine, née Gempt.

From 1840, Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens completed his training with his father. On May 8, 1851, he married Bertha Storck in Bremen (born August 4, 1828 in Osnabrück, died February 2, 1897 in Hemelingen), with whom he had three daughters and a son.

In 1860 Wilkens became a master goldsmith. From 1871 he and his older half-brothers Diedrich and Carl Philipp Wilkens owned the silver goods factory founded by his father.

Rectory and Protestant church in Hemelingen

Wilkens initiated a church association in Hemelingen . The foundation of a plot of land for the construction of a church, the commissioning of the architect Karl Börgemann with the planning of the church construction, which was completed in 1890, the financing of the associated rectory and the foundation of the altar, organ, pulpit and colored church windows are attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens alone in a newspaper article , however, the parish also names other family members such as Minna, the widow of Diedrich Wilkens, as donors and participants. In any case, what is certain is that the Wilkens family, who had relocated their factory from Bremen to Hemelingen, decisively advanced and financed the construction of the Protestant church including rectory at today's address Westerholzstrasse 17 and 19.

When Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens died in 1895, he had the title of Commerce Councilor . After his death, the company MH Wilkens & Sons was continued under the same company by the partners and sole owners Martin Wilkens, Heinrich Wilkens, Wilhelm Wilkens and Hermann Wilhelm Christoph Mallet. Wilhelm Wilkens was the son, Mallet a son-in-law of Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens. He was married to Anna Magdalena Wilkens, who was born in Bremen in 1859.

Famous works

  • Wine jug with the name of Abbess L. Ritmeier or Last Supper jug, height 32 cm, donated in 1859, owned by the Wienhausen Monastery
    • in the Focke Museum , Bremen:
    • Lid with a strange shape, height 33.5 cm, inv. C 798
    • Foot cup, prize from the 2nd German Federal Shooting of 1865, height 19.2 cm
    • Drinking cup with handle and foot, inscribed “Louise 24.12.1872”, also “12 Löth”, inv. 56, 409
    • Centerpiece, Second Baroque, height 34 cm, Inv.-No. 92, 2
  • Ink stuff with a deer and an oak on a meadow, 1872 a present for “Dr. Henrici “on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate; Wienhausen , private ownership
  • Bulbous shape sugar box; Stade , private property

Maker's mark and hallmark

According to Gerd Dettmann and Albert Schröder (see section Literature ), Wilkens used the monogram FW as a master's mark . With the deepened master's mark WILKENS , the master goldsmith also used the hallmark for Bremen; an inclined key ascending to the left in an upright rectangular field.

literature

  • Gerd Dettmann, Albert Schröder, Eva Meyer-Eichel: The Bremen gold and silversmiths. The Bremen tin foundry (= publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Volume 7) (= publications of the Bremen Scientific Society , Series A), Bremen: Winter, 1931

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinz Fruchtchtenicht : 8626 Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens as a personal data record with cross-references on the website of the genealogical association Die Maus, Gesellschaft für Familienforschung e. V. in the version dated May 28, 2019, last accessed on June 22, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Wolfgang Scheffler : Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens and Martin Heinrich Wilkens I , in ders .: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony, dates, works, signs. first half volume, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1965, pp. 219 and 205 ff .; 217a Friedrich Wilhelm Wilkens in the Google book search
  3. ↑ Christoph Sandler, Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry of the small states of northern Germany, the southern German states, Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland , Leipzig undated [1874], p. 59
  4. ↑ Jörg Esser: Jubilee / House of God built from donations ... , article on the page NWZonline.de from June 11, 2015
  5. ↑ n.v . : Parish Hemelingen. The Hemelinger Church from 1890 to 1965 on the page kirche-bremen.de [ undated ], last accessed on June 22, 2020
  6. ^ Official Journal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg / Supplement. Public Gazette No. 83, 1896, p. 809 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ a b Joachim Bühring (arrangement): Wine jug and goldsmith's mark , in this: Die Kunstdenkmale des Landes Niedersachsen , Volume 34: Die Kunstdenkmale des Landkreis Celle in the administrative district Lüneburg . Text volume, ed. by Oskar Karpa , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Administration Office; Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1970, p. 145 and [Register] p. [203]
personal data
SURNAME Wilkens, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith and head of office
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1895
Place of death Bremen