Johann Daniel Lawaetz

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Johann Daniel Lawaetz, pen lithograph by Carl Friedrich Kroymann (1827)
The Johann Daniel Lawaetz country house built in 1798 by Christian Frederik Hansen , destroyed by bombs in 1943
Obverse commemorative coin
Commemorative coin reverse
The Lawaetz house in Hamburg-Ottensen, seat of the foundation of the same name

Johann Daniel Lawaetz (born February 19, 1750 in Rendsburg ; † October 7, 1826 on his country estate near Neumühlen ) was a German businessman and Danish budget adviser.

Life

Johann Daniel Lawaetz stayed from 1762–1772 for commercial training at the company "Pierre His" in Hamburg . After various trips abroad, he settled in Altona as a dealer and manufacturer in 1778 . In 1793 he bought himself in Neumühlen near Ottensen and set up several important industrial companies.

He was a philanthropist and social reformer and guided by the ideas of the French Revolution .

He was the son of Hinrich Franz Lawätz (1715–1762) and Hed (e) wig Christiane, geb. Otte. His brothers were Christian Otto Lawätz (1745-1800), Heinrich Wilhelm Lawätz (1748-1825) and Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz (1751-1840).

Johann Daniel Lawaetz was buried in the old churchyard of the Christian church in Hamburg-Ottensen .

Services

Johann Daniel Lawaetz became a successful businessman and textile industrialist, was enterprising and very committed to society. From the knowledge of the connection between state and economic crises and their effects, especially for what he saw as the "lower classes of the population", Lawaetz derived the necessity of a state labor policy .

In 1807 he transferred the management of his business to Heinrich Friedrich Lawätz (1791-1852) to the son of his brother Heinrich Wilhelm Lawätz.

In 1815 the book appeared with the title: On the care of the state for its poor and needy . The core idea of ​​his writing was not to fight unemployment, poverty and homelessness with alms, but with "opportunity and means" that "get him (the needy) on the path of employment he wants", that is, help for self-help .

Lawaetz was director of the Friedrichsgabe poor colony , which he founded in 1821 and from which today's district of Norderstedt developed. He was also vice-president of the "Schleswig-Holstein Patriotic Society" founded by him in 1812 (see commemorative coin from 1827) as well as a sponsor of the poor relief institutes.

Lawaetz Foundation

During his lifetime Lawaetz suggested the creation of an institute. Founded nonprofit Johann Daniel Lawaetz Foundation (short Lawaetz Foundation ) as a foundation under civil law in 1986 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The Hanseatic city made the Lawaetz House, Neumühlen 16-20, at the foot of the Elbe slope available as foundation capital. This elongated house was built in 1802 as part of a larger factory complex. Reconditioned between 1986 and 1989 in a form suitable for historical monuments, the Lawaetz House offers space for office and consultation rooms as well as for exhibitions and events.

The aim of the Hamburg-based foundation, according to its own statement, is to enable socially and economically disadvantaged groups of people to gain access to the labor, training and housing market through innovative methods of mobilizing self-organization potential:

"The task of the foundation is to initiate and promote projects that create living, working and training opportunities for socially disadvantaged people on the basis of the aims of the umbrella organizations for voluntary welfare."

- Statute of the Lawaetz Foundation

Since 1987, the Lawaetz Foundation has been promoting residential and tenant groups who repair old buildings themselves and thus maintain or create affordable living space. As an additional task, the Lawaetz Foundation took over the management of urban properties in 1988 and transferred it to Johann Daniel Lawaetz-Stadtentwicklungs-GmbH . In 1990 the Lawaetz Foundation acquired a large part of the Falkenried terraces with the help of public funds and handed them over to the Falkenried tenants' cooperative for self-administration.

Since 2008, the Hamburg state coordination office for the advisory network against right-wing extremism has been part of the Lawaetz Foundation. After an initial phase of consolidation, the establishment and coordination of a mobile advisory team at Arbeit und Leben Hamburg e. V. and the DGB-Jugend Nord .

In addition to Johann Daniel Lawaetz-Stadtentwicklungs GmbH, there is another wholly-owned subsidiary of the foundation, Lawaetz-Service GmbH , which has been involved in housing construction for the homeless since around 1995.

The Lawaetz Foundation has owned the Rote Flora since 2014 .

Awards

  • Title Budget Council (1790)
  • Title Conference Council (January 28, 1813)
  • Dannebrogorden
Knight (1810)
Dannebrogsmann (October 28, 1817)
Commander (November 18, 1823)

Works

portrait

  • Carl Friedrich Kroymann: Half-length portrait, pen lithograph, 1827, 32.5cm, 23.8cm (B), ( online , Museum Altona)

literature

  • Report and the resulting proposals and expert opinions on the poor system in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . Hammerich, Altona 1818 ( digitized version ).
  • Walter Grab : The social utopians Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen and Johann Daniel Lawätz. In: same: Democratic currents in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein at the time of the first French republic . Hans Christians, Hamburg 1966, pp. 132-139.
  • Heinrich Würzer : A stroll in Altona . Wohlleben, Hamburg 1997, p. 197, ISBN 3-88159-048-X (first 1801-1804).
  • Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names . Kabel, Hamburg 1997, p. 221, ISBN 3-8225-0421-1 .
  • Manfred von Essen: Johann Daniel Lawätz and the poor colony Friedrichsgabe . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, ISBN 3-529-02197-0 .
  • Authority for Labor, Youth and Social Affairs (Hg): Poverty, Labor and Civic Charity. Johann Daniel Lawaetz and his time , Hamburg 1987.
  • Wilhelm Volckens, Peter Hoppe: powder mill . In: Neumühlen and Oevelgönne . Historical sketches by Wilhelm Volckens and messages from the archive of the Oevelgönner and Neumühlener Lootsen Brotherhood by Peter Hoppe. Schlütersche Buchhandlung, Altona 1895, p. 50-51 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  • Carsten Erich CarstensLawätz, Johann Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 86 f.
  • 686. Lawaetz, Johann Daniel , in: Detlev L. Lübker, Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828, 1. Dept. A – M, Verlag K. Aue, Altona 1829, p. 341 digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10070518~SZ%3D369~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  • Lecture by Chamberlain Th. F. v. Levetzau , in: GP Petersen (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Provincial Reports . Volume 17, 2nd quarter issue, Altona 1828, p. 221 ff. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. Another spelling “Peter Hiss”: (GP Petersen (Hrsg.): Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Provinzialberichte ).
  2. Hinrich Lawaetz. In: myheritage.de. Retrieved September 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ After the death of Lawaetz, he married Martensen. She dies in Altona on December 19, 1792: Manfred von Essen: Johann Daniel Lawätz and the Friedrichsgabe poor colony . (Excerpts from reproduction under "Schadendorf et al .: Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz": digitized version )
  4. Images of the Lavaetz grave and the Lavaetz memorial column donated by the Schleswig-Holstein Patriotic Society , Christianskirche Ottensen cemetery at genealogy.net
  5. The society existed until 1858. She was the editor of the "Landwirthschaftlichen Hefte".
  6. Lawaetz Foundation: How it all began ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lawaetz.de
  7. tenant cooperative Falkenried Terraces: Foundation of the tenants association and self-government
  8. State coordination office . ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Authority for Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration on the official website for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on August 26, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburg.de
  9. ^ Landesjugendring Hamburg: An offer against the right
  10. Kongelig dansk hof- og statskalender. 1826. Carl Friderich Schubart, Kiobenhavn, p. 46 digitized
  11. Review in: Neue Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Provinzialberichte , 1821, p. 113 digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DZFQ5AQAAMAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DRA5-PA113~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D

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