Heinrich Georg Henneberg

Heinrich Georg Henneberg (* 1669 ; † February 19, 1717 in Braunschweig ) was a German postmaster and news agent. He founded the kitchen post between Braunschweig, Hamburg and Blankenburg .

life and work

Post house Gördelingerstraße 44

Henneberg worked in the postal service from 1690 and from 1692 to 1704 he worked in the post office of von Platen's postmaster Johann Wolfgang Polich in Braunschweig. There he left the dispute and in 1705 became ducal post office clerk. In 1706, Duke Anton Ulrich commissioned him and Commissioner Wolff in Hamburg to set up a private kitchen post between Braunschweig and Hamburg. The ducal award document allowed the two entrepreneurs to transport travelers, parcels, letters, money items as well as food and beverages - hence the name "kitchen post" - from Hamburg for the court in Wolfenbüttel . Henneberg and Wolff had to pay an annual fee of 100 thalers to the hereditary postmaster Franz-Ernst von Platen from Brunswick and Lüneburg . They also had to adhere to certain transport tariffs, with mails receiving discounts for the yard. The kitchen mail has been dispatched in Braunschweig at Gördelingerstraße 44 since 1712 , where Henneberg had a post office built. The house remained in the possession of the Henneberg family until 1871. After the postmaster Polich's death in Braunschweig, his widow initially continued the office until the lease expired, before Henneberg also took over von Platen's postal service in 1713 and was appointed royal postmaster. Henneberg moved the handling of this mail to his house. The kitchen mail, which was expanded to include a route to Blankenburg in 1717, also remained an independent company. The Hennebergsche Postkontor increasingly took over the function of a news bureau, which delivered political news to Dukes Anton Ulrich, August Wilhelm and Ludwig Rudolf , but also to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . The correspondence between Henneberg and the scholar Leibniz shows that he had part of his correspondence conveyed through Henneberg. Henneberg held the titles of Imperial, Spanish and Russian agent.

Afterlife

Postal service

After Henneberg's death in 1717, his widow Regina Henneberg continued to manage the kitchen post and the von Platen post until the lease with Count von Platen expired in 1719. Hofpostmeister Meyer became the new tenant of von Platen's postal service, and he relocated the clearance to 19 Breite Straße . Agent Henneberg left the Hamburg kitchen mail to Count von Platen on April 2, 1722 in return for compensation. This contract ended as early as 1725 after the widow Henneberg broke the contract, as she had taken over the newly established princely mail coach to Leipzig. When the lease contract with Hofpostmeister Meyer expired in 1731, Regina Henneberg also applied to take over von Platen's postal service. This was rejected by the duke in 1732. However, with a contract dated March 28, 1732, her son Ulrich Henneberg was entrusted with the forwarding of the Hamburger Küchenpost and the Blankenburg stagecoach, both of which were now considered princely posts.

family

The best-known member of the Henneberg family was Heinrich Georg's grandson Friedrich Henneberg , a Brunswick statesman and prefect of the Oker department from 1808 until his death in 1812 . There is another family connection to Jenny von Westphalen , the wife of Karl Marx . The Henneberg road in Brunswick, according to Henry George's great-great-granddaughter Wilhelmine Henneberg named.

literature

• H. Gaus: History of the Braunschweigische Staatspost to 1806. In: Yearbook of the history association for the Duchy of Braunschweig. 13th year, Wolfenbüttel 1914.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 326 f .
• Berthold Ostertag:  Henneberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 539 ( digitized version ).