Jacobus Poel

Jacobus Poel (* 1712 in Holland ; † 1775 in Zierow , Mecklenburg , buried in Proseken / Mecklenburg near Wismar September 25, 1775), was a merchant in Saint Petersburg and Arkhangelsk as well as a royal and imperial court and councilor .

Life

Jacobus Poel came from a Dutch family.

• His paternal grandfather, Gerrit Claesz Pool (also Poel), baptized Amsterdam February 19, 1651, died there June 2, 1710, shipbuilder, master craftsman and ship carpenter, had taught Czar Peter I techniques of shipbuilding in Zaandam .
• His paternal grandmother was his first wife of the same age (wedding in Amsterdam 29 August 1679), Marritje Jansdr van Saanen from Amsterdam, née. around 1651, buried there June 1, 1693.
• His father was Jan Pool (also Poel), baptized Amsterdam July 15, 1682, died (Saint Petersburg?) Not after 1761. He moved to Saint Petersburg and became the tsar's shipbuilder there.

Jacobus was brought up in Leiden , and was in the boarding house of Monsieur Luzac, the owner of the French Leiden newspaper . He had a good education and spoke several European languages: fluent Dutch and Russian , but also German .

Jacobus Poel learned the trade at the company van Brienen in Saint Petersburg, of which he later became a partner , was the head of the branch in Arkhangelsk, where he made a significant fortune. In St. Petersburg he especially enjoyed the favor of Grand Duke Peter - who later became Peter III. Became Tsar - whose advisor he was. After the death of his first wife (NN Meyer from St. Petersburg), from whom he had two sons, he married in Arkhangelsk around 1750, at least not after 1752, Magdalena van Brienen , buried in Hamburg October 8, 1763. Magdalena was the daughter of the merchant Rutger van Brienen in St. Petersburg. He had five children with her, including the philanthropist Magdalena Pauli and the diplomat Piter Poel .

The son Piter , born in 1760, became the godchild of Grand Duke Peter, who had also been Duke of Holstein-Gottorf since 1739 . This commissioned Poel to look after his Duchy of Holstein and in particular to supervise the construction of the canals there. Because of this, Jacobus had to give up his business in Russia ; shortly afterwards the tsar was assassinated on July 17, 1762. Poel then moved to Hamburg with his family .

In 1766 Jacobus Poel bought various goods in Mecklenburg, including Zierow near Wismar and Naudin (today part of the municipality of Bobitz near Wismar); also the Rethwisch estates in Stormarn and Rastorf. In summer he usually lived in Zierow, in winter in Hamburg, first “Auf den Bleichen”, later “Auf dem Wandrahm”, where he ran a large house and drove a striking four- in-hand.

On August 6, 1767, he married a third time in Hamburg in the chapel of the German Reformed parish Judith, widowed Sarry, b. Schreur van Hoghenstein , d. Hamburg February 12, 1769, buried in the cathedral there February 16, 1769, widow of the royal Prussian court counselor and mint officer Charles Sarry in Berlin , but was widowed again after two years. This third marriage remained childless. Jacobus Poel himself was buried on September 25, 1775 in Proseken (municipality of Gägelow ).

estate

After his death in September 1775, his daughter Magdalena received the Zierow and Rethwisch estates . His son Pieter received the Rastorf and Naudin estates ; he later became editor of the Altonaer Mercur and a member of the philanthropic circle of friends around Caspar Voght and Georg Heinrich Sieveking . His nephew Carl Wilhelm Pauli became a well-known German legal scholar, judge and historian.

literature

• Olaf Klose (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1970.
• Wilhelm Sillem:  Poel, Piter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 87-93.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See pictures from the past . Volume I; on death and burial cf. Entries also in the French Reformed Church; Bell book of the Church of St. Petri.
2. ↑ to his son Piter, sections also to Jacobus Poel