Johann Daniel Ramdohr
Johann Daniel Ramdohr (born March 18, 1775 in Aschersleben ; † December 5, 1866 there ) was a German lawyer, court secretary and founder of a charitable foundation that is still active today.
Life
Johann Daniel Ramdohr came to Aschersleben on March 18, 1775 as the son of the economist and master furrier Johann Andreas Ramdohr and his wife, Marie Elisabeth, b. Weißbrodt, to the world. He attended the Stephaneum . The father died on December 15, 1784, and the management of the house at Breiten Straße 30, including outbuildings, 143 acres of land and leaseholds was taken over by the widow alone in August 1785. The guardianship of the children, Daniel and the sister Catherine Elisabeth, later married. Trautewein, the Justice Commissioner Teudeloff took over.
The talented Daniel Ramdohr completed a law degree, after which he began as a secretary at the Aschersleben court. On April 8, 1808, the pupil secretary Ramdohr, along with other members of the magistrate such as a court secretary Kruse, was promoted to the notary of the city canton of Aschersleben by royal Westphalian decree. In December 1808, after the mother's death (February 13, 1808), the entire arable farming business was closed. The widowed sister Ramdohrs died soon afterwards on February 19, 1808. So Johann Daniel Ramdohr took over the administration of an extensive estate. In the Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1811, he is named, along with Kruse, Niemeyer and others, as a member of the superior council of the Halberstadt district .
After the end of the French era , he took over the position of secretary at the court treasury, as he was denied a judge's office due to his career in the Westphalian service and neutral stance in the wars of freedom . Around 1828 Ramdohr was mentioned as court secretary in subscriber lists of contemporary books. In addition to fulfilling his official duties, he set up a collection of scientific books and pictures and maintained two gardens with vineyards and orchards near the monastery mill. His unmarried niece Catherine Trautewein died on February 19, 1830, and Ramdohr inherited her share of the family fortune. Therefore Ramdohr often donated gifts for fellow citizens in need and for an aid committee after a flood of the Vistula (probably in Königsberg). He always did this anonymously, but could be identified because of his handwriting and praised against his will.
On March 17, 1832, when the constitutional town order was introduced in Prussia , he was elected to the Aschersleben town council and appointed chairman. At their previous first meeting on February 8th, Ramdohr gave a much-noticed speech shaped by humanistic ideals, but disappointed about grievances that he was unable to influence with the scope of his office, he soon resigned and was no longer persuaded to to take on any public representation. In the period that followed, after careful planning, he went on a long trip to Italy.
On April 23, 1846 he bought the house at Breite Strasse 37 (at that time No. 211), had it torn down and rebuilt. He remained unmarried for life, but always maintained benevolent relationships with some friends, including his godchild, the orphaned son of Pastor Märker of the Margarethenkirche, whom he helped out of bankruptcy after bad harvests in 1842 and whom he would have made his heir if he had not been for it In 1853 he died as a bailiff in Quenstedt . Ramdohr was also in close contact with his cousin, the economist August Hädecke. After his death in 1860, his orphaned daughter Natalie Adolphine found acceptance as a partner and housekeeper at Ramdohr and devoted all of her time to caring for the aging single person until Ramdohr's death.
Ramdohrs mild foundation
On February 5, 1864, Ramdohr wrote his last will, in which he decreed: ... placed by the grace of God in a wealth that exceeds my needs, I feel called to use my diminishing wealth for charitable purposes . Ramdohr died in 1866 as a state and city court secretary a. D. His burial in the family grave at the side of his niece took place without any great ceremony in the old cemetery.
According to his will, "Ramdohr's milde Stiftung" was founded, with its registered office at Breiten Straße 37, under the supervision of the city council by 5 curators. Funding for orphans and widows, grants for foster children, financing of education and studies for the poor, and the creation of healthy living space for retired workers were laid down in the statutes as the foundation's purpose. Out of gratitude, the city administration had a bust made by the sculptor Uhlenhut from Quedlinburg, which was exhibited in the meeting room of the foundation's board of trustees, in today's city archive.
The foundation came into being in the autumn of 1867 and by 1888 had enabled 883 children to be cared for. By 1928 more than 2000, by 1937 already 2260 orphans and half-orphans were supported. Three six-family houses for the disabled and the elderly were built in Ramdohrstrasse. As a donor, Ramdohr had already announced bequests for the technical and artistic training of his pupils. The local painter Walter Buhe and the sculptor Hans Karl Döring from Aschersleben also received such a grant . The foundation is a social welfare institution in Aschersleben that still exists today.
Honors
- Before 1875, Ramdohrstrasse belonged to Magdeburger Chaussee. In 1875 this street was named Ramdohrstraße after Johann Daniel Ramdohr.
- Out of gratitude, the sculptor Döring created the red granite memorial at the Lübenschule, made of red granite, which was erected on November 21, 1937 and inaugurated by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ramdohr Foundation, Albert Drosihn.
- As part of the Aschersleben State Garden Show 2010 , a small memorial grove with ground monuments to deserving people was created in the northeast corner of the city park. One of them is reminiscent of Johann Daniel Ramdohr.
Speech on the introduction of the town order on February 8, 1832 (excerpts)
... It is delicious, this gift, because it is the preparation, indeed the foundation and beginning of our constitutional state: for a sensible, efficient building is started and carried out not from above, but from below ...
... Free speech and counter-speech among us, every opinion should be defended, every opinion should have its justification, but calm and prudence, decency and dignity may never be missed at our meetings [...] so that we do not be accused as if we weren't ready for freedom ...
... The good genius of mankind [...] will further guide us, awaken, nourish and strengthen the spirit of unity and love among us, and facilitate faithful fulfillment of duty, so that we may all partake of the blessings whose human works are capable . This is our wish, this is our hope!
literature
- Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity, Volumes 45–46, 1912, p. 83
- Anzeiger Aschersleben No. 272; November 22, 1937
- FC Drosihn: In memory of the District and City Court Secretary Johann Daniel Ramdohr. Hallersche Buchdruckerei, supplement to the Aschersleben scoreboard, 1888
- FC Drosihn: Aschersleben in the 19th century . Aschersleben 1900, (reprint Naumburg 2000) ISBN 3-86156-041-0 ; P. 246
Web links
- Journey of Duke Bernhard to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach through North America. Weimar, 1828 ; see: Court Secretary Ramdohr in the subscriber directory
- Ramdohrstrasse , article at Radio HBW , accessed on June 7, 2012
- Article on the 2008 Foundation , accessed on January 2, 2015
- contemporary article on the will in the Munich daily newspaper and foreigner sheet, p. 3259; No. 365, December 31, 1866 , accessed December 28, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity, Volumes 45-46, 1912, p. 83
- ↑ cf. State Main Archives Saxony-Anhalt, A 19b, XLIII No. 23, for leasing the Klostermühlenbleks to the widow Ramdohr, Marie Elisabeth, born. Weisbrodt 1799, Johann Daniel's mother in the German Digital Library
- ^ Dannheimer: Kemptner Zeitung. Dannheimer, 84th year, No. 1. from January 1, 1867, p. 5. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Ramdohrstrasse , article at Radio HBW , accessed on June 7, 2012
- ↑ Foundations in the Salzlandkreis ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: sachsen-anhalt.de
- ↑ Anzeiger Aschersleben No. 272; November 22, 1937
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ramdohr, Johann Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1866 |
| Place of death | Aschersleben |