Heinrich Geffcken

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Lithograph by Johann Friedrich Hesse (1860)

Heinrich Geffcken (born October 24, 1792 in Hamburg ; † December 3, 1861 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and senator.

family

Heinrich Geffcken was the son of the Hamburg merchant Hinrich Geffcken, born in Neuhaus a. Oste and Susanna Hoppe. His younger brothers were the pharmacist Eduard Geffcken , the merchant and temporarily president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Gottfried Geffcken (1802–1842) and the later pastor Johannes Geffcken . In 1816 he married the Lüneburg pastor's daughter Elisabeth Merckel, a granddaughter of the Hamburg theologian Johann Dietrich Winckler . Geffcken's son was Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken , his daughter Maria married the later Senator Emil von Melle . His daughter Minna (1823–1886) had been married to the bookseller Gustav Eduard Nolte since 1845 . His grandchildren were also Senator Werner von Melle and Antoinie von Melle, who was married to Otto Wilhelm Mönckeberg . Another well-known grandson was the lawyer Gustav Eduard Nolte . Heinrich Geffcken's sister Henriette Geffcken married the merchant and senior elder Carl Philipp Kunhardt . The daughter Minna Kunhardt emerged from the marriage and was married to Johann Friedrich Albrecht August Meyer .

Life

Heckengarten open-air museum
Collective grave of senators

Geffcken began a commercial apprenticeship in 1809. When the French occupied Hamburg a second time in 1813, Geffcken fled to Sweden . Later he joined the volunteer corps of the Hanseatic Legion and took part in the battles for the liberation of Hamburg in 1814, during which he was wounded on the Veddel .

At the beginning of 1816, Geffcken and his brother-in-law Carl Philipp Kunhardt took over their father's trading company G. Lipmann & Geffcken . In the following years he devoted himself to expanding the business into a major import and export company in the drug trade. At the end of the 1830s, Geffcken became active in Hamburg's municipal administration, in particular he was a member of the deputation for the Hamburg Giro Bank , which took care of the interests of the Hamburg bank and cashless payments , in particular the Hamburg accounting . In 1839 Geffcken was elected to the Commerzdeputation and in 1844 was its president. After the Hamburg fire , Geffcken was appointed to the council and citizens' deputation on June 16, 1842 , which was responsible for the rebuilding of the destroyed city.

On April 23, 1845, Geffcken was elected to what was then the Hamburg council, which was to become the Senate in 1860 and to which he belonged until his death. Geffcken was sent by the Senate to the Neuner Commission in 1848 , which was supposed to revise the Hamburg constitution and largely formulate the electoral laws of 1859. In the council, Geffckens was responsible for banking and trade issues. Eduard Johns was elected as Geffcken's successor in the Senate, and he had already worked with him on the Council and Citizens Committee.

The Geffcken family grave stone is located in the Heckengarten open-air tomb museum in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , and in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Senators (III) is commemorated, among others, on Heinrich Geffcken.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see correction in ADB vol. 9, p. 796 line 2
  2. ↑ Hamburgisches Geschlechtbuch 16, (DGB 210) 2000, p. 226
  3. ↑ Hamburgisches Geschlechtbuch 16, (DGB 210) 2000, p. 226
  4. ↑ more precisely the Hamburg French period
  5. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families Volume 1, page 106
  6. ^ Last home address "Geffcken, Heinrich, Senator, in the company G. Lipman & Geffcken, new Gröningerstr. 2 ”, 1861 in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library

literature

personal data
SURNAME Geffcken, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1861
Place of death Hamburg