Hans Jacob Albrecht Meyer

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Hans Jacob Albrecht Meyer (born September 28, 1794 in Lübeck ; † August 9, 1877 there ) was a German ship's carpenter.

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Adolph Diedrich Kindermann : Ship's carpenter Meyer and his wife (1860), Behnhaus collection

Hans Jacob Albrecht Meyer was a son of the ship's carpenter Johann Hinrich Meyer and his first wife Anna Elsabe, née Franck. It is not known which school he attended and which profession he learned. Individual sources indicate that he learned "in a foreign country" to make ships according to cracks . Possibly. he had previously learned shipbuilding in his father's workshop.

In 1817 Meyer created his own sketch for the first time. After this presentation of his father was in the workshop, the Galeass "The harvest" with a capacity of 51 Commerz loads à 3 t. He created his masterpiece with the “Concordia”, which could carry 46 commercial loads and was launched in Lübeck in 1823 on behalf of Joachim David Wohlers. After that Meyer regularly built ships on the Lübeck Lastadie .

In November 1825, sources name Meyer for the first time as a citizen of Lübeck. In 1840 the members of the ship's carpenter's office elected him to be a senior man, succeeding his father. In the same year he completed the first sea steamer, which was built in Lübeck. It was a wooden paddle steamer rigged as a 2-mast top sail schooner on behalf of the shipping company Schön & Co. from Stockholm . The ship, named “Gauthiod”, was able to carry 159 commercial loads and sailed to Nyköping in September 1840 . Here it received two 70 hp steam engines. The ship often called at the port of Lübeck and operated safely until 1861.

In 1846 Meyer traveled to England, Scotland, Ireland and France and studied shipbuilding there. In the following year he built the 3-mast top sail schooner “Thames” with a load capacity of 132 commercial loads. The ship built for the Hamburg shipowner Robert Miles Sloman was originally supposed to be called the “Thames of London”. Meyer temporarily employed 170 to 180 people and completed the building in May 1847. Sloman ordered a total of twelve ships from Meyer, of which the “Thames” was the most important. It was the first ship that was to sail across the North Atlantic for a German shipping company. The “Thames” received the steam engines later in London. Sloman sold the ship to England in 1862. In 1857 Meyer built the frigate “Palmerston” as the last wooden ship to be highlighted in Lübeck. The ship on behalf of the shipping company S inley Cambell & Co. could carry 671 commercial loads . It was the largest wooden ocean-going ship that was ever launched in Lübeck.

From 1823 to 1880 Meyer built 87 new ships, including three steamships. He also enlarged four more. There is no evidence of new buildings for the period from 1867 to 1878 inclusive. After his death, Henry Koch acquired the company and ceased operations because he thought wooden seagoing ships were out of date. The literature shows that Meyer's new buildings were completed in 1879 and 1880. It is still not clear who led these statements. It would be obvious that his son Jacob M. completed this.

Meyer worked at a time when crack-based work was establishing itself in shipyards. He had current knowledge in the preparation of such drawings and the corresponding technical execution. He brought technological innovations in shipbuilding to Lübeck, where he was the most important shipbuilder of the 19th century.

family

Meyer married Anna Catharina Elisabeth Schrein on June 28, 1827 (born February 14, 1807 in Lübeck), whose father was the skipper Carl Friedrich Schrein. The later divorced marriage resulted in three daughters and two sons. Two daughters and one son died as children. The son Jacob (born July 22, 1832 in Lübeck, † November 19, 1910 ibid) worked as a ship's carpenter, expert for ships and marine equipment and consul of the United States of America.

literature

  • Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , pages 312-313.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 312.
  2. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 312.
  3. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 312.
  4. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , pages 312-313.
  5. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 313.
  6. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 313.
  7. ^ Hein Haaker: Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 312.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hans Jacob Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ship's carpenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1877
Place of death Lübeck