Georg Nicolaus von Lübbers

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Georg Nicolaus Lübbers (1724–1788) (contemporary drawing) (with the Order of the Red Eagle )
The Stockelsdorf mansion
Sandstone element with alliance coat of arms (Lübbers'sche coat of arms on the left) above the portal of the Stockelsdorf manor house
Braided rim plate from the Stockelsdorf faience factory

Georg Nicolaus von Lübbers (born April 6, 1724 in Hamburg ; † January 17, 1788 in Stockelsdorf ) was a German major , Danish budget councilor and judiciary , builder of the Stockelsdorf manor and had a significant influence on the development of Stockelsdorf with his entrepreneurial activities - especially as the founder and owner of the Stockelsdorfer Fayencemanufaktur .

Life

Georg Nicolaus Lübbers was born in Hamburg in 1724 as the son of a middle-class businessman.

He became a soldier and was in Dutch , Russian and English service from 1740 and reached the rank of captain . He made a fortune during his English service in India (in the armed forces of the British East India Company ).

In 1759 he returned to Hamburg, where he joined the Hamburg military as a major at the end of the year. In 1760 he married Maria Catharina Baur (January 22, 1736 - September 26, 1811) - the daughter of the Altona mayor Johann Daniel Baur (1700–1774), which increased his fortune again.

In 1761 Georg Nikolaus Lübbers took his leave of the military, acquired (from Lübeck chancellery Lukas Klippe ) the Stockelsdorf estate in Holstein (one of the Lübeck estates ), where he rebuilt the Stockelsdorf manor (see main article) in the same year and settled there .

In 1770 he received the Order of the Red Eagle . In 1772 he was one of the founding members of the Lübeck Johannisloge Zum Fruchthorn (later Zum Füllhorn ).

In Stockelsdorf, Georg Nicolaus Lübbers was appointed royal Danish budget councilor and judicial councilor. There was already a brewery and distillery on his estate , to which he added a factory for the production of vinegar . From 1775 there was a factory on the estate that produced wallpaper , playing cards and paper .

The farmers on the farms belonging to Gut Stockelsdorf were released from their bondage under Georg Nicolaus Lübbers and ran their farms on a long lease .

In 1771/72, with and at the instigation of Johann Georg Buchwald, he opened the (see main article) Stockelsdorf faience factory - for which he was able to recruit numerous craftsmen from the Kiel faience factory (in addition to Johann Georg Buchwald). The products of the Stockelsdorf faience manufacture quickly achieved a quality on a European level. Georg Nicolaus Lübbers was able to give the manufactory's products access to the markets in Lübeck and Denmark for a long time . Selling the manufactory's products became increasingly difficult from the beginning of the 1780s, so that the Lübbers' tried (in vain) to sell the manufactory. Ultimately, it was closed in 1788.

In 1786 Georg Nicolaus Lübbers applied to Emperor Joseph II for elevation to the hereditary imperial nobility , which was granted on March 27th - so that his family name changed to von Lübbers .

Georg Nicolaus von Lübbers died in Stockelsdorf at the beginning of 1788 - his wife Maria Catharina von Lübbers lived there until 1811. Their daughter Maria Catharina married the merchant and later Lübeck mayor Friedrich Nölting who came into the possession of the Stockelsdorf farm.

Others

  • The "Lübbersstraße" in Stockelsdorf is named after the von Lübbers family .
  • From the Lübbers coat of arms, the bundle of arrows was adopted into the coat of arms of the municipality of Stockelsdorf.

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  1. ↑ Johannes Hennings: History of the Johannis Lodge "Zum Füllhorn" zu Lübeck, 1772-1922. Lübeck 1922, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Lübbers, Georg Nicolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1788
Place of death Stockelsdorf