Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein

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Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein (born January 23, 1728 in Berlin , † February 26, 1787 in Stettin ) was a German merchant , wine merchant and shipowner in Stettin.

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Education and youth

Stettin around 1640 (Merian)

Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein was the third child of the Magdeburg-born businessman Christian Tilebein (1682–1755) from his marriage to his second wife Christiane Dorothea Marggraf (1705–1773). After the early death of his father Raban Gebhard Tilebein (around 1644–1695), who was a merchant in Magdeburg, Christian Tilebein came to Berlin in 1695 and learned the trade as a merchant there and then ran a business with sheets and woolen goods. After his first son Johann Wilhelm Tilebein (1723-after 1802), who later became a preacher in Rühstädt in the Prignitz , decided to become a theologian, the father wanted his second son to take over the business. Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein was therefore unable to study, but received his commercial training in the trading house of his uncle Julius Tilebein in Magdeburg from 1746 to 1748. After a hard training period, he entered the trading business of the wine merchant Johann Jacob Vanselow (1696–1761), the later War and Domain Council, as a "merchant servant". He stayed there until 1750 and then made the decision to open a business in Stettin himself.

Professional activities

In 1751 Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein became a member of the merchants' union in Stettin and united with Hartwig, who until then had worked as a cooper in the Vanselow wine shop, and ran a wine shop with him. Hartwig resigned after disagreements in 1753. Tilebein had meanwhile acquired a house on the corner of Untere Schulzenstrasse and Königsstrasse and was able to take advantage of the favorable location with great profit. Since numerous ocean-going ships constantly drove to Bordeaux to fetch French wine, they brought Pomeranian staves to Bordeaux on the return voyage. The activity was very successful. Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein had his own office building on Königsstrasse, where there were large cellars, as well as rented cellars, especially in the old royal palace. In addition to wine, which was refined in the cellars, Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein traded grain and wood and ran his own shipping company. The previous house on Königsstrasse was demolished in 1775 and replaced by a stately new building.

Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein later acquired a plot of land with a garden (Liebherr'scher Garten) on the Lastadie (Oderinsel in Stettin). There he built a new massive storage facility and a loading bridge in 1779. The garden was provided with an orangery and other greenhouses and decorated with statues. On the upper floors of the storage room lay tobacco leaves for the “kgl. Prussian-Pomeranian Tobacks Directorate ”. In May 1785 there was a severe flooding of the Oder valley, during which the Lastadie was also inundated and considerable damage was caused, which was increased by the loss of his ship "Missmann", which was shipwrecked on the voyage to Riga.

During the North American War of Independence (1775–1783) the shipping space became very scarce. Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein took advantage of this situation and had several ships built, so u. a. the ships "Eleonora Christina" and "Triton". Many young merchants worked in his trading house who later became self-employed, such as B. Rudolf Christian Gribel , who ran the trading house Rud. Christian. Gribel founded, which existed as a shipping company until the second half of the 20th century.

After his death in 1787, the trading business was continued by his son Carl Gotthilf Tilebein and his son-in-law Johann Tobias Pief (c) ke.

Voluntary work

Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein enjoyed a great reputation among his fellow citizens. He was a senior man of the Seglerhaus (merchants) and assessor of the Maritime Court.

He was also an alterman in the rifle company of the merchants and as such gave the grand shot in 1762 for the Russian Empress Catherine II , who came from Stettin , when she was proclaimed empress, and he shot the bird. When the city council of Szczecin announced this to the empress, she donated 1,000 ducats to the rifle guild and a gold coronation medal weighing 50 ducats to the rate. Since then, the City Council of Szczecin has received one piece of each of the newly minted commemorative coins, which over time have become an extensive collection.

In matters of trade policy Seglerhaus-aged man Tilebein represented the Szczecin merchants in a personal audience with the Prussian king Friedrich II. In fact, the intention of the king construction was not completed the "Tort Banque" as a single institution, and it was instead a "change - and a lending bank for legal accounts ”as well as an“ Assecuranzkontor ”established.

Because of his reputation, he was also called in as an expert and made suggestions to the Berlin government to increase shipping. In April 1774 Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein gave up his voluntary work, which also included the work as provisional for the churches of St. Jacobi and St. Nicolai , due to his poor health.

family

After starting his commercial activity, Gotthilf Wilhelm Tilebein married the daughter of the merchant and silk merchant Johann G. Watt and his wife Barbara Sophia born on April 27, 1752. Gumm (1727-1766). The marriage had seven children, of which Friedrich Wilhelm (1755–1813), Carl Gotthilf (1760–1820), Carolina Henrietta (1761–1803) and Friederica Augusta (1763–1804) survived the father.

With his second wife Eleonora Christiana Watt (1742-1800), the stepsister of his first wife, whom he married a year after the death of his first wife, he had four children who died at a young age.

His son Friedrich Wilhelm Tilebein first attended the Joachimsthal School in Berlin, but soon returned to Stettin. The planned legal studies did not seem to have come about. In 1780 his father bought the Buchholz free school estate for him, and Friedrich Wilhelm took over the management. To the chagrin of his father, he led an unsteady life. There was a strong resentment between the brother and his sisters, especially after the death of the father when he asserted inheritance claims with great force.

His son Carl Gotthilf continued his father's trading business together with his brother-in-law. Together with his wife Sophie Auguste , he emerged as the organizer of cultural life in Szczecin.

His daughter Carolina Henrietta Tielebein married the businessman Johann Tobias Pief (c) ke, who later became a partner of Carl Gotthilf, in Stettin in 1779. The Piefke couple had seven children, including Eleonora Juliana Piefke, who in 1806 married the later general tenant of the state domain in Alt Landsberg and royal governor Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Lüdke .

His daughter Friederica Augusta Tilebein married in 1783 in Stettin with the war and domain councilor Hermann Friedrich Daniel Bauer. This marriage was divorced after a short time. She entered into a second marriage with Chamberlain Carl Friedrich Ernst von Stuckmann. Both marriages remained childless.

Bauer married his sister-in-law Carolina Henrietta in 1800 after her husband Piefke died in 1792. The marriage remained childless.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Herbert Exner, Sedina Archive Vol. 7, Vol. 40, 4/1994, p. 310
  2. ↑ Christine Manthey and Fred Manthey: Wolga, Weimar, Weizenfeld. Germans in and from Russia. 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035530-1 , p. 12. bdv-thueringen.de (PDF)
  3. ↑ Whether this tradition was maintained in the 20th century still has to be checked.
personal data
SURNAME Tilebein, Gotthilf Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1787
Place of death Szczecin