Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck

Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck (born February 3, 1771 , † December 12, 1849 ) was a Royal Hanoverian officer , war construction administrator, accounting officer in the armory and a freemason . His grave monument can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck was born at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . During his military career he was promoted to lieutenant and later to captain . During the so-called " French era " he was accepted into the St. John's Masonic Lodge on March 17, 1803, the Black Bear .

After the collection of the former Electorate of Hanover to the kingdom Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck worked as a civil servant of his sovereign , as a construction and was Arsenal manager responsible for the administration of military facilities such as the armory , in particular in the to 1849 residential city built armory at Waterloo Place .

1849 was also the year Ahrbeck died. The address book of the royal residence city of Hanover from 1849 also recorded the residence of Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck at Waterlooplatz, the parade ground opposite the Leineschloss, redesigned by the royal Hanoverian master builder and city planner Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves at the beginning of the 19th century .

Gravestone of Georg Wilhelm Ahrbeck in the garden cemetery, gravestone cuboid with a wreath made of oak leaves

Oak leaf wreath

The tomb

The - listed - Ahrbeck tomb in the garden cemetery with the inscription

"In memory of Captain GW Ahrbeck ..."

appears as a simple cube made of sandstone standing on a square base , which is crowned with a lying wreath and ribbon in the classicism style .

Remarks

↑ Deviating from the epitaph, the source gives the - later - date of birth February 16, 1771, possibly a confusion with the date of baptism

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Compare Hans-Gerrit Vogt: Gravestones at the garden cemetery in Hanover (PDF document, updated in December 2016) including cross-references, last accessed on April 7, 2017
^ ^A ^b ^c Wilhelm Nöldeke : Directory of all members of the Johannis Lodge "Zum schwarzen Bär" in the Orient of Hanover during the first century of its existence March 17, 1747 until then 1874 , in which: The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient of Hanover 1774 to 1874 ... Manuscript for Brothers Freemasons , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei der Bbr. Jänecke, 1875; P. 3; Preview over google books

↑ Helmut Knocke : Armory on Waterlooplatz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 689.

↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Waterlooplatz , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 211f.

↑ Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 65f., As well as Annex Mitte. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985 , City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.

personal data
SURNAME	Ahrbeck, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Royal British officer, Hanover war construction administrator and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1771
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1849

[3] Deviating from the epitaph, the source gives the - later - date of birth February 16, 1771, possibly a confusion with the date of baptism

[Hans-Gerrit_Vogt-1] Compare Hans-Gerrit Vogt: Gravestones at the garden cemetery in Hanover (PDF document, updated in December 2016) including cross-references, last accessed on April 7, 2017

[Zum_schwarzen_Bär-2] A ^b ^c Wilhelm Nöldeke : Directory of all members of the Johannis Lodge "Zum schwarzen Bär" in the Orient of Hanover during the first century of its existence March 17, 1747 until then 1874 , in which: The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient of Hanover 1774 to 1874 ... Manuscript for Brothers Freemasons , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei der Bbr. Jänecke, 1875; P. 3; Preview over google books

[4] Helmut Knocke : Armory on Waterlooplatz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 689.

[5] Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Waterlooplatz , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 211f.

[6] Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 65f., As well as Annex Mitte. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985 , City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.