Johann Egestorff
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Johann Hinrich Egestorff (born October 22, 1772 in Lohnde near Seelze , † March 30, 1834 in Linden ), called "Kalkjohann", was a German industrialist in the first half of the 19th century. Today he is considered to be one of the first modern entrepreneurs in the Hanover area .
Career
Johann Egestorff was born in Lohnde, a small community west of Hanover, in 1772 as the son of a small farmer and line fisher. In 1795 he began training as a cooper and worked in a lime distillery on Lindener Berg near Linden (now part of Hanover).
On April 17, 1801, he married Anna Dorothea Eccard, a daughter of Johann Adam Eccard, royal filler in Lohnde. After she died in 1816, he married Dorothea Margarete Gaffki, the daughter of a Hanoverian master carpenter, in the same year.
After the lime distillery went bankrupt in 1803, Egestorff took over the company and moved into the so-called "Kalkbrennerhaus" (demolished in 1969), which is why he was called "Kalkjohann" from then on. He rationalized the limestone production and built up other companies. In 1807 he acquired the right to cultivate the Deister's coal fields near Wennigsen . In 1816 he owned 16 lime kilns in Linden and the surrounding area. In the Leinetal he built large brickworks, opened quarries for foundation stones and founded an extensive timber trade. Later he also bought a sugar factory in Bremen and exported lime to areas of north-west Germany with few building materials, including Bremen. To this end, he had a port built on the Ihme in Hanover, from which 20 ships depart every week.
Initially, his toughest competitor was the noble Freiherr von Knigge from Bredenbeck , who ran coal mines, quarries and the glassworks in the Bredenbeck district of Steinkrug . Later the farmer's son Egestorff allied himself with the traditional noble family. He committed himself to accepting the Kniggeschen products, but the Knigge from Linden and Hanover withdrew.
His son Georg Egestorff , who was born in 1802 , first learned Böttcher in Hildesheim , but was then called back by his father to Linden in order to set up a previously completely missing bookkeeping for the extensive business. Father and son formed a limited partnership in Bremen and expanded the operations of all individual companies.
In 1825 he had Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves build a mountain inn on the Lindener Berg next to the mill (demolished in 1878). In 1831 he built a brick factory in Empelde . In the same year, his son founded a salt works on his own at Lindener Berg . After Johann Egestorff died in 1834, Georg took over the management of the entire business.
After Georg Egestorff's death, he was buried in front of St. Martin's Church in Linden in a crypt below the mausoleum - the mausoleum was destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in 1943. Of the former village cemetery around the church, only Georg Egestorff's crypt remains today. The beehive tombstone of "Kalkjohann" Johann Egestorff, Georg's father, was moved to the son's crypt. Kalkjohann's grave has not been preserved.
Brick with the company stamp Egestorff
Johann Egestorff monument by Georg Herting in Hannover-Linden
Monument section with Johann Egestorff
St. Martin and the Egestorff mausoleum before the air raids on Hanover
Foundation walls of the mausoleum, grave and memorial stone in 2007
literature
- Günter Gebhardt: The industrial pioneers Egestorff, their mining and other companies. In: Military, Economy and Transport in the Middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692–1866. (= Studies on Lower Saxony State History , Volume 1.) ibidem (Edition Noëma), Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0184-9 , pp. 141 ff.
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Georg Egestorff In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 145.
- Karl Karmarsch : Egestorff, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 657 f. (Additional entry Johann with his son Georg E.)
- Marianne Leber: Johann Hinrich Egestorff. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 329 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Philipps: Johann and Georg Egestorff. Life and work of two business leaders from Lower Saxony. Oldenburg 1936 (= contributions of the Economic Science Society to the study of Lower Saxony , issue 35.)
- Käthe Mittelhäußer: The industry. In: The district of Hanover. Hanover 1963, p. 176 ff.
- Erna Schneppe, Friedrich Schneppe: Village school in Lohnde 1700–1945. In: Lohnde local history. City archive Seelze, Seelze 1992, p. 163 ff.
- Alfred Schröder: Church register card index for the parish of Seelze. (with additions from other sources) City Archives Seelze, undated
- Heinrich Wittmeyer: Chronicle of the parish of Seelze. unpublished manuscript / typescript in the Seelze City Archives, 1948 (Appendix No. 44)
- Hans Georg Röhrbein: To the origin of the Egestorff family. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 36 (1982), Issue 3–4, pp. 203–212.
- Helmut Zimmermann : The Linden Egestorffs and their relatives. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 36 (1982), Issue 3-4, pp. 213-222.
Web links
- Photograph of the lime burner house in Linden, which was demolished in 1969
- Photograph of the old Martinskirche in Linden
- Horst Deuker: How it came about that Romania was located in the middle of Linden , project Lebensraum Linden by FAUST
- Sketch of the location of the graves, namely of Georg Egestorff I.) and his father "Kalkjohann" Johann Egestorff III.) At postkarten-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local history Lohnde on the website of the city of Seelze .
- ↑ "Johann Egestorff" on www.seelze.de .
- ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, volumes 35–38, 1981, p. 209
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egestorff, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalkjohann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wages at Seelze |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1834 |
| Place of death | Linden trees |