Jacob Peter Reimers

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Monument by Jacob Peter Reimers at Løkken in Sønderborg

Jacob Peter Reimers (born November 24, 1826 in Ketting on Als ; † March 25, 1922 in Sønderborg ) was a Danish master butcher and politician .

Life

Reimers was the son of the butcher Asmus Otto Reimers (* August 27, 1800 - November 2, 1852) and Cecilie Elisabeth Danielsen (* August 15, 1801 - February 23, 1880).

After participating in the Schleswig-Holstein Uprising (First Schleswig-Holstein War), after which he received the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn in 1850 at the suggestion of his company , he became a master butcher in Sønderborg in 1852. There he took over the business of his father-in-law and was elected chairman ( Danish Oldermand ) of the butchers' guild .

Together with his father-in-law, Reimers ran an export business for cattle and pigs , which was the largest within the duchies ( Hertugdømmerne in Danish ). In 1862 he was elected to the city council and from 1863 to 1864 he was chairman of the citizens' association. During this time he was very supportive of the riflemen and the Brotherhood of Arms ( Danish Vaabenbrødreselskabet ).

Reimers married on November 18, 1852 in Sønderborg Jensine Maria Ernestina Herrmann (born July 17, 1829 in Sønderborg; † December 22, 1926 there), daughter of the butcher Johann Peter August Herrmann (1787–1871) and Catharina Christina Mills (1802–1885 ).

politics

With his patriotism and strong character, he won the full trust of his fellow citizens at a young age. Since 1864 he was involved in all political negotiations and decisions of Schleswig politics and exercised great influence on them. Hans Peter Hanssen described him as one of the agitators in the separation of North Schleswig from the German Empire and its incorporation into Denmark after the First World War .

In 1866 he was a member of the 47-person deputation that traveled to Berlin to prepare for the implementation of Article 5 of the Peace of Prague . In 1869 he was a member of a North Schleswig deputation that congratulated Crown Prince Frederik on the occasion of his wedding. In 1894 he and the still living members of the deputation from 1869, the journalist Gustav Johannsen and the politician Hans Lassen , conveyed the congratulations of Sønderjylland on the crown prince's silver wedding anniversary.

The Vælgerforening for Nordslesvig party was founded in 1888. Reimers was elected its chairman and held this office until 1907. He was chairman of the joint stock company that published the magazine Dybbøl-Posten . In 1896 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Association of War Veterans from the Schleswig Wars De danske Vaabenbrødre ( German  The Danish Brothers in Arms ), which had departments in Copenhagen and Kolding . In 1898 he became an honorary member of the Copenhagen Slaughter Guild.

After the referendum in Schleswig and the reunification of the Danish parts of the country in 1920, he received the title of Commander 2nd Class of the Dannebrogorden .

Awards

Special

In 1926 a memorial stone was erected at Løkken in Sønderborg with a relief by Niels Hansen Jacobsen . The portrait is by Aase Kramp (Folkehjem, Aabenraa ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danish name for the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg
personal data
SURNAME Reimers, Jacob Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish master butcher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Ketting on Als
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1922
Place of death Sønderborg