Georg Friedrich Baur
Georg Friedrich Baur (born November 23, 1768 in Altona , † March 14, 1865 ibid) was an Altona merchant and owner of the Baurs Park named after him , in what is now the Hamburg district of Blankenese .
Life
Baur attended the Christianeum , a grammar school founded in 1738 in what is now the Othmarschen district . From 1783 to 1786 he studied law in Göttingen and Kiel . Then he settled down as a merchant. In 1794 he was able to buy himself free from assuming civil offices in return for payment of 300 thalers .
In 1797 he married his cousin Marianne Heise, the daughter of the Hamburg senator and later Hamburg mayor Johann Arnold Heise . He had ten children with Marianne.
Together with his brother Johann Heinrich Baur (1767–1807), Baur ran the money and goods trading company founded by their great-grandfather Neuhaus , which from then on traded under the name JH & GF Baur . Under her leadership the company's success grew and it gained international renown through banking deals with Northern European countries. After the early death of his brother, his brother-in-law was initially a partner, later Baur ran the company alone and took his sons Georg Friedrich and Franz Johannes into the company as partners. In 1804 Baur acquired a long piece of land on Palmaille , on which he had houses built in the classical style first for himself (now number 49) and later for his children by Christian Frederik Hansen . In 1811 he bought the Baur country house in Nienstedten, also built by Hansen, from his brother's estate . He entered the Altona Commerzcollegium in 1837. In 1840 he was appointed royal Danish budget councilor and in 1847 - on the occasion of his golden marriage - appointed conference councilor. In this context, he was awarded the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel legal honorary doctorate .
family
Baur's grandfather was the Altona mayor Johann Daniel Baur (* 1700, † 1774), who immigrated to Altona from Stuttgart in 1723 . His parents were wealthy and respected. His father Johann Heinrich Baur (* 1730, † 1819) was a merchant and second mayor in Altona. Johann Martin Lappenberg married Baur's daughter Emilie; after her death he married the younger sister Marianne. His granddaughter Amalie Raeder married the Danish painter Ferdinand Meldahl .
Georg Friedrich Baur was buried in the old churchyard of the Christian Church in Hamburg-Ottensen (Baur family burial site).
Honors
The streets of Baurs Park and Baurs Weg in Blankenese are named in honor of Baur.
literature
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 2nd, revised edition. Zeiseverlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805687-9-2 .
- Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee: Your country estates, people and fates , Hamburg, 1977
- Julie Grüner: Memories of the house of my grandparents Baur in Altona, Denmark. Hamburg 1965.
Web links
- Hamburger Elbblicke , lecture 7
- Hamburg China Notes from January 25, 2008, (pdf) (280 kB) ( Memento from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Images of the Baur family grave at genealogy.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baur, Georg Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baur, Georg Friederich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and owner of Baurs Park in what is now the Hamburg district of Blankenese |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1865 |
| Place of death | Altona |