Gossler (Hanseatic family)
Gossler (also Goßler ) or von Berenberg-Gossler is the name of a Hanseatic family or noble family from Hamburg . Members of the family were or are merchants, bankers , senators and the first mayor ( head of state ) of the city-state of Hamburg. The family descends from Johann Hinrich Goßler and Elisabeth Berenberg , the only heiress of the Berenberg banking family , and has been co-owners and main owners of the Berenberg trading and banking house since 1769 .
history
The Hanseatic Goßler family descends from Johann Hinrich Goßler (1738–1790). His ancestors in Hamburg were citizens and coffee makers ; his father Johann Eibert Goßler (1700–1776) bought the office of gentlemen's tavern ( master of ceremonies ) of the council in 1739 for 10,600 marks . His brother Johann Jacob Goßler (1758-1812) was a colonel in the French service and died during Napoleon's Russian campaign .
Johann Hinrich Goßler was co-owner of the trading and banking house Berenberg from 1769 (called Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. from 1791). In 1768 he married Elisabeth Berenberg (1749–1822), the daughter of Johann Berenberg (1718–1772) and the only heir to the Berenberg banking family . In 1788 Goßler took on his son-in-law Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836), son of the famous Swiss theater director Abel Seyler , as a new partner. After the death of his father-in-law, Seyler became head of the trading house and was President of the Commerzdeputation .
The trading and banking house Berenberg was founded in 1590 by Hans (1561–1626) and Paul Berenberg (1566–1645) in Hamburg. The Berenberg family from Lier and Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands (in today's Belgium ) came to Hamburg as Protestant religious refugees when they had to leave Antwerp in 1585. In Hamburg they were large merchants from 1590, became hereditary citizens in 1684 (i.e., politically privileged patricians ) and mixed with other leading Hanseatic families of Dutch origin, e. B. Amsinck . The family also descends from the Welser family . Members of the Berenberg family were members of the Hamburg Council (or Senate) from 1735.
From 1821 members of the Goßler family were Hamburg senators, and Hermann Goßler (1802–1877) became the first mayor (with the same rank of federal prince ). In 1880 the Hamburg Senate approved the Goßler family's name change to Berenberg-Gossler. In 1889 Johann Berenberg-Gossler (1839–1913) was raised to the Prussian nobility for his services to the customs connection in Hamburg and was now called von Berenberg-Gossler . In 1910 Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was raised to the Prussian baron status, but the use of the title was tied to the ownership of the family entails commission .
Goßler's Park at Blankeneser Bahnhof is named after the family. In addition, an island in the Antarctic was named Gossler Island . This was discovered in 1873/74 by Eduard Dallmann on behalf of the Deutsche Polar-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft , in which Ernst Gossler (1838-1893) was involved.
In the area of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , members of the Gossler family are commemorated on a double collective grave.
Descendants of Johann Hinrich Goßler and Elisabeth Berenberg now live in Germany and Norway, and some of them are still co-owners of the Berenberg Bank. Descendants can be found in different families u. a. with the names Schramm, Burchard, Wegner , Amsinck , Paus and von Bernstorff .
coat of arms
In 1773 Johann Hinrich Gossler adopted this coat of arms: a natural goose foot in a silver shield divided over red; on the helmet with a red and silver cover an open black flight.
The coat of arms of the Goßler family from 1832 shows a squared shield, in the first field divided by silver and red a goose foot, in the fourth field also divided by silver and red a goose, 2 and 3 without a badge. The helmet is decorated with an open silver flight.
Name bearer
- Johann Hinrich Goßler (1738–1790), banker
- Johann Heinrich Gossler (1775–1842), banker and senator
- Hermann Goßler (1802–1877), first mayor
- Johann Heinrich Gossler (1805–1879), businessman
- Ernst Gossler (1806–1889), lawyer and politician
- Wilhelm Gossler (1811–1895), businessman and member of parliament
- Ernst Gossler (1838–1893), banker and politician
- Johann Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler (1839–1913), banker
- John Henry Gossler (1849–1914), businessman
- John von Berenberg-Gossler (1866–1943), Senator and Ambassador to Italy
- Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler (1874–1953), banker
- Carl Oscar Goßler (1875–1953), Olympic champion in rowing, Paris 1900
- Gustav Ludwig Goßler (1879–1940), Olympic champion in rowing, Paris 1900
- Carl Heinrich Goßler (1885–1914), Olympic champion in rowing, Paris 1900
- Claus Gossler (1937–), businessman, historian
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume 16, Freiherrliche Häuser B II, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1957.
- German gender book . Volume 127. Ninth Hamburg volume. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1961.
Web links
- Berenberg-Goßler in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Book of arms of the Hamburg Senate.