Johann Adam Vogt

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Johann Adam Vogt (born February 14, 1773 in Kassel , † May 14, 1845 in Helsa ) was a German Grebe (mayor, mayor) in Helsa. He is the author of a Helsa chronicle and of professional diaries, so-called almanacs. Of the latter, five from the years 1828, 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840 have been preserved.

Life

Johann Adam Vogt was born in 1773 in the Unterstadt in Kassel . His parents were the master butcher Nikolaus Vogt (1742–1821) and Anna Catharina, b. Gröll (1747–1808) He was married to Anna Margarete, née Brethauer, since May 14, 1794. They had two daughters, Anna Katharina (* 1795) and Anna Elisabeth (* 1798). Two of his three brothers emigrated to "America" ​​in the city of "Neujork" in 1809. Heinrich and Georg died there in 1834 and 1812. Vogt was a trained butcher, from approx. 1800–1823 innkeeper "Im Weißen Roß" in Helsa, elected "local chief" of Helsa from 1797, mayor from 1808 and member of numerous commissions. z. B. from 1800 to 1835 as "court appraiser". JA Vogt dies in Helsa in 1845.

Helsa chronicle of the mayor Vogt

The Helsa chronicle reports under the title "MEMORIALS from antiquity to the present day" on events from 1703 to 1845. In addition to events in the town of Helsa, Vogt also describes some national and historical events, e.g. E.g. the Battle of Leipzig or an epidemic in 1831.

Vogt reports in the Helsa Chronicle on September 27, 1813, shortly before the Battle of Leipzig , of General Alexander Iwanowitsch Tschernyschow , whose appearance he describes: "General Czernitscheff was a handsome, powerful man; a Mameluk whose face I still remember with his black, bristly hair, high arched forehead, small black eyes which were closer to the nose than any other person, a blunt, short nose and a prominent chin. " After crossing the Elbe, Tschernyschow found himself with "6000 Cossacks ", as Vogt writes - other sources mention approx. 2300 - on the way via Helsa to Kassel to conquer Kassel and end the kingdom of Westphalia from Napoleon's brother Jérôme . He left Kassel on October 6th: "On October 6th, Czernitschef withdrew with his Cossack army from Cassel via Münden, Göttingen etc." On October 7th, the French returned under "General Alix", after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813) they finally withdrew.

Vogt then reports on the strains and material losses on the population caused by troops passing through around and after the Battle of Leipzig. Among other things, he describes a "cattle epidemic" which caused most animals to "creep" and a "nervous fever" in the population that killed "13 family fathers". He tried to document the damage. The "billeting lasted from September 27th, 1813 to February 14th, 1814 of the team and horses" and totaled 39,489 teams and 11,125 horses. He listed the consumption of oats, hay, straw and wine separately. Vogt then tried to obtain compensation, he created a "damage table that was submitted to a higher place". In the following 20 years he was elected several times in commissions that determined and compensated for such damage.

On November 30, 1818, the "Russian Empress, along with Grand Duke Michael and Constantine" traveled through Helsa, "for which 94 horses were required to be harnessed". In December they passed Helsa again, this time "marching through and billeting" continued uninterrupted from December 11th "until the 20th Dzbr., And caused us a lot of trouble again."

In 1831 Vogt reported a cholera epidemic in Germany. "In the year 1831 the Colera morbis, or the so-called black death, hit Germany, as a result of which cholera houses were built on all borders." The "travelers" were "smoked with chlorinated lime" before they z. B. "entered Heßenland". "In Kassel some fell victim to this plague disease, here nobody has been attacked by it." Vogt's description, according to which there were a few deaths in Kassel and Helsa was spared from cholera, belongs to the so-called 2nd pandemic of cholera. It lasted from 1826 to 1841, came from India with Russian soldiers via the Baltic States and Warsaw to Europe in 1830 and to Germany for the first time in a pandemic in 1831 .

On December 17, 1837, three days after the so-called Göttinger Sieben had been removed, Vogt reported that seven professors from Göttingen had come to the inn that his older daughter and her husband had been running since 1823. The Brothers Grimm were two professors , and there were also students. "On December 17th, seven professors, including the Brothers Grimm, who had been expelled from Göttingen, came here with a large number of students in the evening, ate in our house and drove off to Kaßel."

Helsa almanacs from Mayor Vogt

Vogt kept a professional diary. "The conscientious custodian of the community should have kept such an 'annual notebook' at least in the later years of his administration (1797-1838)." The entries were each divided into two areas. On the one hand, he reported on the weather. He also recorded special events related to the weather here. On the other hand, he reported on events in the village in the context of his function as mayor and regional events. These almanac entries probably also supported the creation of the chronicle. The two entries from 1828 are identical or similar in the almanac from 1828. One almanac is privately owned. According to the state of 1977, the "Association for Hessian State History Kassel" has four.

literature

  • History Association Helsa (1992): Copy of the Helsa chronicle of Mayor Vogt (1773–1845) . Produced in February 1977 on behalf of Helsa municipal administration, 1992 edition. (Signature of the University Library edition - LMB Kassel: 35 Hass 2006 B 586)
  • Vogelsang, Gerd (no year): Historical data Helsa . On-line
  • Zeis, Friedrich (1976): On the Helsa chronicle of the mayor Vogt. Based on notes from church councilor D. Eduard Grimmell († 1971 ), edited by F. Zeis. In: Norddeutsche Familienkunde, issue 4/1976, pp. 454–460. Also printed in Geschichtsverein Helsa 1992, pp. 49–55.
  • Zeis, Friedrich (1977): On the Helsa Almanac of Mayor Vogt . Reprint from "Hessische Familienkunde" vol. 13, issue 8/1977, pp. 475–482.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ See Helsa History Association 1992.
  2. ↑ See Zeis 1977, p. 482.
  3. ↑ See family table of the Vogt family, in: Geschichtsverein Helsa 1977, p. 4ff.
  4. ↑ See family tree of the Vogt family. P. 5.
  5. ↑ "In 1808 I was appointed mayor of the Helsa community by a royal rescript. In 1835 I resigned." S. 6. In the Kingdom of Westphalia, Vogt Maire, d. H. Mayor, and kept the job even after Napoleon's fall. The term mayor was not officially introduced in Hesse until 1834 and replaced the older Grebe.
  6. ↑ See family tree of the Vogt family. P. 6.
  7. ↑ See Geschichtsverein Helsa 1992, pp. 23–48, and Vogelsang.
  8. ↑ See Helsa History Association 1992, pp. 11–15.
  9. ↑ See Helsa History Association 1992, p. 14f.
  10. ↑ See p. 16ff.
  11. ↑ See p. 19ff.
  12. ↑ See p. 21.
  13. ↑ See p. 22.
  14. ↑ See p. 29.
  15. ↑ See p. 32.
  16. ↑ See Helsa-Chronik, entry 76., in Geschichtsverein Helsa 1992, p. 37.
  17. ↑ See Zeis 1977, 475.
  18. ↑ See Zeis 1977, p. 476.
  19. ↑ See Zeis 1977, p. 482, footnote: "After this evaluation has been printed, it appears that almanacs have also been preserved for the years 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840. They are at the Association for the State of Hesse in Kassel . "
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Grebe (Mayor) in Helsa
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1845
Place of death Helsa