Johann Christoph Woehrmann

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Johann Christoph Wöhrmann, contemporary lithograph
Monument erected by JC Wöhrmann for his mother in 1829 in Wöhrmann's garden

Johann Christoph Wöhrmann , Latvian Johans Kristof Vērmans (* 6. July 1784 in Riga ; † August 21 . Jul / 2 September  1843 greg. In Franzensbad ) was a Baltic German merchant and Prussian Consul General of Livonia and Kurland.

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Johann Christoph Wöhrmann came from the original Lübeck Wöhrmann family , who worked as silk merchants in the textile wholesaling. The silk merchant Heinrich Wöhrmann († 1785) was able to acquire a side chapel in Lübeck's Marienkirche for the family in 1776 , where a plaque commemorates the family's burial place. Johann Christoph Wöhrmann's father Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann (* 1737) went to Riga around 1763. Initially a member of the Blackheads and their eldest in 1772, he then joined the Great Guild . He was successively a partner in the trading companies "Vethaacke, Krupp & Co", "Krupp & Wöhrmann" and "Wöhrmann & Detenhoff" until he set up his own company in the 1770s. His mother was Anna Gertrud, b. Ebel (1750-1827).

In 1804 Johann Christoph Wöhrmann took over his father's company, now trading as "Wöhrmann & Sohn", and expanded it. In addition to trading, especially with France, Belgium and the Netherlands, he operated banking. Most important for the future and the economic success of the company was the establishment of a cloth factory in 1834 on his estate Zintenhof (today Sindi , Pärnu district , Estonia ) on a rapids of the Pernau , after a forerunner company in Poland was burned down during the unrest there in 1831. From 1824 he represented Prussia as its consul general for Livonia and Courland in Riga.

From 1814, his mother Anna Wöhrmann had repeatedly donated land and money to the construction of a public park in the style of an English garden in Riga, which was then named Wöhrmannscher Garten . Johann Christoph Wöhrmann continued this tradition, had a monument erected here, the Wöhrmann Monument , in 1829 and expanded the park considerably.

family

Johann Christoph Wöhrmann was married to Cäcilie Wilhelmine, born in Lübeck. Kuhlmann (* 1788 in Lübeck, † 1840 in Riga). The couple's children were:

  • Christian Heinrich (1814–1874). He succeeded his father in the company and in the consulate.
  • Emilie (* 1822). In 1844 she married Conrad Rücker (* 1817), merchant and elder of the Great Guild in Riga, head of the Petrikirche , Hannoverscher, Lübeckischer and Hamburgischer consul, a nephew of the Riga merchant Gabriel Leonhard von Berckholtz .
  • Dorothea Wilhemine Virginie (* 1825). She married her Saxon cousin Christian Heinrich von Wöhrmann in 1845 .
  • Olga (1830-1890). She married the Saxon lieutenant and chamberlain Alexander Caspar Graf von Rex auf Zehista near Pirna .
  • Johann Christoph. He was promoted to baron in 1859 and acquired the Stolben manor in 1865.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 24 ff. ISBN 3795004756
  2. ↑ Arend Berkholz, memorial sheets for the Berckholtz family also Berkholz, collected and recorded by Arend Berkholz in 1883, Riga 1883, p. 9
  3. ^ New general German nobility lexicon (1859), p. 595
personal data
SURNAME Woehrmann, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vērmans, Johans Kristofs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German merchant and Prussian consul general in Riga
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1843
Place of death Franzensbad