Johann Ernst Gaertner

Johann Ernst Gaertner (* around 1740; † January 24, 1791 in Magdeburg ) was General Tax Director of the Excise and Customs Office in Magdeburg.

Life, family

Johann Ernst Gaertner's father, Friedrich Wilhelm (* around 1720), was an excise collector in Magdeburg. His mother was Marie Magdalena Rost (* around 1720). Gaertner was married twice to Huguenot descendants. His first wife was Marianne Friederike Wilhelmine Garrigue (born June 17, 1741 in Magdeburg; † October 4, 1771 ibid), a daughter of the goldsmith and assessor at the French colony court of the French colony in Magdeburg , Moyse Garrigue (and granddaughter of Jacques Garrigue ). They had six children, three of whom are known by name, including Friedrich Wilhelm Abraham Gaertner. Probably because of his intensive relationship with the French colony (he was a member of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg , probably because of his wife ), his name is often used in the French form as "Jean Ernest". The ancestors of his first wife, Marianne Garrigue, also included the religious refugees and tapestry families Barraband and Mercier from Aubusson , France .

Gaertner's second marriage to Susanne Marie Maquet (* around 1751; † March 20, 1803 in Magdeburg), a daughter of the merchant Abraham Louis Maquet (* around 1719), had twelve children. Of his children from his second marriage, the sons Jean Claude (* 1774) and Frédéric Henri Louis Gaertner (* October 19, 1782, † April 19, 1864) were known as Berlin businessmen, corporation elders of the Berlin merchants and city elders.

Through various sponsorships and marriages, Gaertner connected his family to well-known Magdeburg families. Among the 87 godparents for his 18 children in total are names such as: The mayors of the Palatinate colony Philipp Schwartz and Georg Philipp Dohlhoff , the colony judge Serre, the director of the excise and customs office Roussand de La Combe, the court preacher August Friedrich Wilhelm Sack , the doctor August Friedrich Dohlhoff, Jean Daniel Kaessler and others. Johann Ernst Gaertner was related by marriage to the Magdeburg businessman Johann Tobias Rumpf.

Act

Like his father, the excise collector Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann Ernst also pursued a career in the tax administration in Magdeburg. Not least from his position in the electoral and later royal tax authorities, Gaertner cultivated intensive contacts with economically and politically outstanding personalities in Magdeburg. He became the Privy Higher Excise and Customs Council and later General Tax Director of the royal tax system in the Duchy of Magdeburg, succeeding Roussand de La Combe. His son Friedrich Wilhelm Abraham Gaertner was Prussian war and justice commissioner , his grandson Ernst August Gaertner was city ​​councilor of Magdeburg and later dike captain for the Middle Elbe in Schönhausen (Elbe) .

literature

• Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt: Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016560-0 .
• Johannes Fischer: The French colony of Magdeburg. In: Magdeburg cultural and economic life. No. 22, Magdeburg 1942.
• Johannes Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. In: Magdeburg cultural and economic life. No. 19, Magdeburg 1939.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt: Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016560-0 , page 342
2. ^ Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt: Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016560-0 , page 78

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