Joachim Hinrich Georg Wenditz
Joachim Hinrich Georg Wenditz (born October 20, 1799 in Lübeck , † May 23, 1888 in Lübeck) was a Lübeck skipper and chairman of the Schiffergesellschaft .
Life
Joachim Hinrich Georg Wenditz was the son of the Lübeck brewer Samuel Hinrich Wenditz and his wife Magdalena Maria Schaffner. His father came from a Lübeck art turner family. Wenditz became a citizen of Lübeck in 1829 and married his first wife, Catharina Sophie Bahrs, in 1830, who died a year later. In 1833 he married Anna Louise Borstelmann from Riga, with whom he had three sons, two of whom died at birth or in infancy. They also adopted a daughter.
Between 1829 and 1852 he was captain of the Lübeck company , which sailed between Riga and Lübeck.
In 1848 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship . As chairman of the Schiffergesellschaft, which had got into financial difficulties, he was able to avert the sale of the Schiffergesellschaft building and effect the conversion to the restaurant that still exists today. He was also a member of the management of the navigation school and until 1852 chairman of the seaman's fund.
The bank on the Untertrave in Lübeck in the area of the museum harbor in Lübeck's old town in Wenditzufer was named after him.
Wenditz died in 1888 in the apartment in the house at An der Untertrave 59 and was buried in the Jakobifriedhof of the Burgtorfriedhof .
Web links
- Who or what was Wenditz? Lübeck city newspaper from November 20, 2001
- Official announcement about the naming of the Wenditz bank. Lübeck city newspaper from October 9, 2001
- Minutes of the meeting of the building committee on September 17, 2001 (PDF file; 191 kB). luebeck.de
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| SURNAME | Wenditz, Joachim Hinrich Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenditz, Jochim Hinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ship captain and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1888 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |