Heinrich Wieting
Heinrich Wieting (born July 25, 1815 in Rönnebeck , † December 6, 1868 in Charleston ) was a German captain.
biography
He was one of seven children of Captain Cord Wieting (1772-1828) and his second wife Anna Ruyter (1784-1836). In 1844 he married Sophie Volger (1823–1847) and had four children.
From 1834 to 1835 he attended the helmsman's school. In 1841 he took the Bremen citizen oath in Vegesack .
During his professional life as a captain, Wieting managed three ships that were built for his employer, the Bremen shipping company N.Gloystein & Sons. From 1839 he commanded the barque Johann Friedrich, on which he had already worked as a helmsman before his time as captain. After the Johann Friedrich stranded off the English coast in 1850, he took command of the Bark Copernicus from 1851 to 1856 . His last ship was the Bark Gauß which, like the two predecessors, was built by Johann Lange at the shipyard . Wieting was a captain in passenger and cargo shipping between Bremerhaven and North America for 25 years . It gained special significance through the transfer of German emigrants to Charleston (South Carolina) and was honored there by the German community.
In 1851 he was accepted as a member of the Bremen House Seafaring institution and in 1859 was elected as a worker.
Heinrich Wieting died of typhus at the end of a sea voyage to North America. The German Matthäus Congregation in Charleston erected a funerary memorial in Wieting's Bethany Cemetery in Charleston, SC.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Andrea Mehrländer: With a course for Charleston , SC Verlag HM Hausschild, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-492-2 .
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1 .
Web links
- Article in the district newspaper - accessed November 20, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Bethany Cemetery - Charleston, South Carolina. In: Google Maps. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wieting, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German captain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rönnebeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1868 |
| Place of death | Charleston |