Hermann Deecke

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Hermann Deecke around 1891
Hereditary funeral of the Deecke family from the Burgtorfriedhof

Johannes Hermann Adolph Deecke (born February 23, 1843 in Lübeck , † December 15, 1901 in Lübeck) was a businessman and senator in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

Hermann Deecke was the youngest son of Ernst Deecke and came from his second marriage. He was a student of the Katharineum . He spent part of his apprenticeship in Riga , St. Petersburg and Hamburg . In 1868 he founded the company "Hermann Deecke", Agencies & Commissions in Lübeck. In 1879 his brother-in-law Ferdinand Boldemann was accepted into the business and "Deecke & Boldemann" was created. From 1873 to 1879 Hermann Deecke was a member of the Lübeck citizenship, from 1886 to 1891 he worked as a commercial judge and since 1891 a member of the supervisory board of the German life insurance company in Lübeck. On November 9, 1891, Hermann Deecke was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, as one senator had left the city by death. This was Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann's father . Hermann Deecke was appointed to the Commission for Trade and Shipping. In 1894 he became chairman of the St. Petri parish . From 1870 he became a member and from November 12, 1895 head of the “ Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities ” in Lübeck, from 1896 to 1899 he was chairman of the editorial committee of the “ Lübeckische Blätter ”. Hermann Deecke was one of the founders of the "Lübeck Transport Association".

Hermann Deecke had been a member of the Lübeck Johannisloge "Zum Füllhorn", the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany , from 1863, and from 1889 to 1892, as successor to Hermann Linde, their lodge master .

Hermann Deecke married Johanna Boldemann (1849–1884) in Hamburg on August 8, 1869. Second marriage to Emily, b. Baumbach (1863-1946). The first marriage had seven children and the second marriage two children. The youngest son from the first marriage was Georg Deecke. In later years he wrote the biography of his grandfather Ernst Deecke.

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line from the beginnings of the city to the present . I. The Council Line No. 1 - 1041. II. Comments. III. Register, Max Schmidt-Römhild publishing house, Lübeck, 1925
  • Senator Deecke. In: Lübeckische Blätter 48 (1901), pp. 600-601 (obituary)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Hagenström: History of the Johannis Lodge "Zum Füllhorn" in Lübeck 1772–1972. Lübeck 1972, p. 65
personal data
SURNAME Deecke, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deecke, Johannes Hermann Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and senator of the city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1901
Place of death Lübeck