Joachim Christian Daniel Dreyer

Joachim Christian Daniel Dreyer (born April 5, 1783 in Altona ; † October 12, 1875 in Oevelgönne ) was a German shipowner and coal importer.

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Joachim Christian Daniel Dreyer was the son of Ewerführer Johann Daniel Diederich Dreyer (baptized on November 12, 1755 in Altona; † Sept. 21, 1791) and his wife Margarethe Maria Dorothea, born. Ehrhardt (born January 13, 1765 - December 17, 1832). The ancestors of the family worked as harvesters and fishermen. After the father's death on September 21, 1791, the mother married the also widowed Altona butchery master Johann Adolf Matthias Brügmann (* April 6, 1753, † September 19, 1843).

Dreyer completed an apprenticeship as a butcher, but he didn't like it. After completing his apprenticeship, he therefore moved to the company of a well-known Hamburg businessman and shortly afterwards became a clerk . Shortly afterwards he went into business with a partner and initially imported coal. Later both of them loaded up to 14 of their own large sailing ships that sailed overseas with cargo. Some of them can be found in the Altona Museum on pictures or as models.

Dreyer married Anna Margaretha Dorothea Brügmann on May 17, 1809 (* May 9, 1788 - January 21, 1862). The couple had six sons and two daughters. The son Ernst became a shipowner like his father. The son Adolph (born June 17, 1817), who died of cholera on August 22, 1871 , ran his father's company "ICD". After this stroke of fate, the end of his shipping company was sealed, as there was no longer a partner at his side.

In 1816 Dreyer lived in a house on Breitestrasse, then in Palmaille 53 (later it was given number 90). It was one of the smallest houses in Altona, which was spared during the Second World War and was only destroyed in 1963 for the construction of a new street. Dreyer, who liked himself as a patriarch, received celebrities here every week. On certain days of the week the door was open to well-known merchants and politicians. After the duchies had been annexed, he stood up for Prussia and became royal Prussian councilor of commerce.

Dreyer was a regular and guest of honor in Bad Kissingen , where he stayed in the summer for 36 years.

Dreyer moved to his son Ernst on Dreyers-Lust in 1872 and lived there until his death in 1875.

literature

• Herbert Seitz: Dreyer, Joachim Christian Daniel . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 129–130