Johann Arnold Heise

Lithograph by Friedrich Carl Gröger (1819)

Johann Arnold Heise (born February 5, 1747 in Hamburg ; † March 5, 1834 ) was a mayor of Hamburg and bailiff in Ritzebüttel .

Life

Heise began to study in Hamburg in 1767 and enrolled in law , but was also very interested in poetry . After continuing his studies in Göttingen and Kiel , he received his doctorate in 1771. After he returned to Hamburg, he settled down as a lawyer and worked as a lawyer .

According to contemporaries, despite his profession , he did not neglect his literary streak. Lessing in particular was one of his favorite writers and he was on friendly terms with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock .

Heise was appointed Senator of Hamburg in 1794 and soon afterwards had to prove his political skills as there were numerous trade unrest. Heise was transferred to the area around Ritzebüttel , which was a strategically important trading point for urban trade. But already in the following year Hanoverian troops occupied Ritzebüttel, fearing a landing by the French, in 1800 it was the Prussians who sent their troops to the outpost, this time in anticipation of an English fleet. In 1803 Heise returned to Hamburg after his term of office had been extended by three years and took up the post of mayor of Hamburg four years later. Despite the foreign troops who had occupied parts of Hamburg years earlier so that a French invasion could be repelled, Heise had to open the city to Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in 1810 . Until 1811 he remained the provisional mayor. Although Heise was reassigned the office in 1813, because the coalition army had ousted Bonaparte from the German area, he had to surrender to the advancing French in April 1813, but in the following year the French were finally expelled from Hamburg.

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Honors

The University of Kiel , at which Heise had studied for a time, awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1821.

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the (II.) Collective grave commemorates the mayor of Johann Arnold Heise, among others.

Works

• News from the Heise family in Hamburg. Hammerich & Lesser, Altona 1887 digitized

literature

• Werner von Melle :  Heise, Johann Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 669-671.

Web links

Commons : Johann Arnold Heise  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• hamburger-persoenlichkeit.de (entry accessible via search)