Jacob Andresen Siemens
Jacob Andresen Siemens (born December 29, 1794 on Heligoland ; † September 19, 1849 in London ) was a shipbuilder, publicist and founder of the seaside resort of Heligoland. In his publications he always put a hyphen between his surnames: Jacob Andresen-Siemens; In secondary literature it is usually written without a hyphen and Andresen is understood as a first name.
biography
Siemens was the second child of the skipper and pilot Rickmer Jacobs Siemens and his wife Peerke Jacobs Franz. In 1796 his family left Helgoland and settled in Tating in Schleswig-Holstein . During the continental lock he returned to Heligoland. In 1815 he began an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter in Altona and then went to sea as a sailor . When he returned to Heligoland, he ran a ship carpentry and boat building company. Rickmer Clasen Rickmers , founder of the shipyard and shipping company of the same name, was one of the apprentices he trained from 1823 to 1826 .
After the North Sea islands of Norderney , Wangerooge and Föhr had already founded seaside resorts, Siemens was the driving force behind the establishment of a seaside resort on his home island. On February 19, 1826, a public limited company was founded to operate a bathing establishment on the dune off the main island. In 1831 this corporation was able to distribute a dividend for the first time.
Siemens was arrested for insults he had voiced against the then English governor of the island and against several council members. His shares in the seaside resort were pledged as bail for his release. This deposit should be paid back if he voluntarily left the island forever. He renounced it and stayed on his home island.
Siemens dealt in his books with the Heligoland pilotage and with the establishment of a German Navy. His writings against the oath are detailed (his father had lost his property through perjury directed against him), contemporaries he was considered very interested in religion.
His writings on the navy were noticed by the German public. He traveled to Berlin, Oldenburg and, in 1848, to the Frankfurt Parliament on this subject.
In 1844 he was re-elected to Rathmann, but this again led to disputes with other councilors, so that in 1846 he was removed from his position as councilor. To take action against it, he traveled to London, since Heligoland was then under British administration. He died there on September 19, 1849.
Honors
On Heligoland, the J.-A.-Siemens-Terrasse , the longest street in the Unterland, and the J.-A.-Siemens-Platz , the main square there, were named after him. A Siemens monument was erected on the square in 1926. The monument is now part of a wall that surrounds the swimming pool, only one side is visible.
Works
- The island of Helgoland before its imminent demise : a national font for the benefit of its residents and North Sea shipping; with 2 views and a carte, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1835, digitized
- Fragments of the oath based on facts. First issue, based on facts about the sea , in commission at Hoffmann & Campe in Hamburg and Karl Aue in Altona, 1839 (88 pages)
- The kingdom of the Lord - fragments about the oath: The kingdom of the Lord in represented peoples and independent rulers. Religion, reason, law by ennobling the law, in execution of the prohibition of the oath. , On commission from Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, and from Karl Aue (E. Th. Schlüter), Altona, 1841 (581 pages)
- The North Sea Broom . The Heligolander pilot system suppressed; North Sea shipping endangered! Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1843, digitized
- References to Germany's merchant shipping in particular relation to the Elbe , Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1844, digitized version , (Supplement to Germany's sea validity ; Eduard Boas, p. 322)
- Helgoland Mysteries , C. Schünemann, Bremen 1848, digitized
- Proposals for establishing a German Navy , Carl Jügel, Frankfurt am Main, 1848, (20 pages) digitized
- with CA Jansen, L. Starklof: The German War Navy , Schulzesche Buchhandlung, Oldenburg 1848, digitized
- Germany's sea-validity , 2nd edition, Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1848, digitized , (1st edition 1843; Eduard Boas, p. 321)
- Helgoland's lawlessness , Schulzesche bookstore, Oldenburg 1848, digitized [1]
- Works in 2 volumes , ed. Eckhard Wallmann, Helgoland 2001 (contains the above writings except for Helgoland's lack of law , plus an excavation report from 1845 and the essay by Benno Eide Siebs about him)
literature
- Eduard Boas : Two writers from Helgoland , in Life and Weaving on Helgoland , (Volume 4 of Eduard Boas Schriften,) Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1847, p. 311 ff., Digitized
- Andrea Jürgens, Jacob Andresen-Siemens, founder of the Helgoland seaside resort in 1826, His life and work for Helgoland, documentation, Helgoland undated (approx. 1988), 41 pages
- Benno Eide Siebs : Jakob Andresen Siemens. A picture of the life of the founder of the spa Helgoland 76, in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Edited by Olaf Klose. 76. Bd. Neumünster 1952, pp. 187-200, digitized [2] first published in the Helgoland NS newspaper Nathurn, Helgoland 1935 No. 11 and 12.
- Eckhard Wallmann, Helgoland - A German Cultural History, Hamburg 2017, pages 121, 229 and more.
Web links
- Jacob Andresen Siemens (1794–1848). In: Helgoland Genealogy. June 22, 2012, accessed July 5, 2018 .
- Helgoland seaside resort. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard Wallmann, Helgoland - A German Cultural History, Hamburg 2017, page 199
- ↑ Eckhard Wallmann, Helgoland - Eine deutsche Kulturgeschichte, Hamburg 2017, page 229
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siemens, Jacob Andresen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the Helgoland seaside resort |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | on Heligoland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1849 |
| Place of death | London |