Johann Friedrich Anton Wüppermann

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Johann Friedrich Anton Wüppermann (around 1840)

Johann Friedrich Anton Wüppermann (born March 13, 1790 in Hamburg ; † April 3, 1879 there ) was a Hamburg merchant , head of the Hamburg citizen military from 1831 to 1835, rapporteur of the council and citizens' deputation on the reform of the fire extinguishers after the Hamburg fire in 1842 / 43, Vice President of the Hamburg Constituent Assembly from 1849 to 1850 and co-owner of the Hamburg City Theater from 1861 to 1863.

Origin and place of residence in Hamburg

Wüppermann comes from the old Wippermann merchant family from Lemgo . His father Hermann Friedrich Anton Wippermann (1753–1825), however, emigrated to Hamburg as a wealthy bakery merchant in 1795, initially settling at the Strohhaus in Hamburg-St. Georg and from 1797 ran a bakery shop at Hopfenmarkt No. 101. While his father moved back to St. Georg after the shop was sold in 1813, Wüppermann himself lived in Grosse Drehbahn 391 from 1813 (renumbered as Gr. Drehbahn from 1834 40-46) and in 1825, with the inheritance of his deceased father, acquired the buildings at Große Drehbahn 381-387, which were henceforth known as "Wüppermannscher Hof" (renamed from 1834 to "Wüppermanns Platz", Gr. Drehbahn 36-39) and In which the Hamburg original Johann Wilhelm "Hummel" Benz ( "Hummel, Hummel - Mors, Mors" ) lived until his death in 1854. In 1839 he moved into his father's house in St. Georg (near the straw house 78) as his main residence, but kept his office in the Große Drehbahn until his death. Why the Wippermanns in Hamburg changed the spelling of their name to Wüppermann is not known.

Career in civil military

In 1822, Wüppermann joined the infantry regiment of the Hamburg citizen military as 2nd major of the 2nd battalion, which David Christopher Mettlerkamp founded in 1814 and which enjoyed great popularity among the Hamburg bourgeoisie. There he was promoted to 1st major and battalion commander in 1824 and to major in the general staff in 1828, where he worked with August Abendroth (1796-1867), Carl Krutisch (1797-1832), co-founder of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 and grandson of Philipp Friedrich Krutisch and Carl Wilhelm Schröder (1789–1845), a nephew of Christian Matthias Schröder , worked. In the suppression of anti-Jewish riots in September 1830, Wüppermann stood out, on the one hand preventing further rioting and on the other hand preventing the chief of the lancers who had rushed up from causing a bloodbath. On April 25, 1831, Wüppermann was finally appointed by the City Council of Hamburg to lieutenant colonel and head of the civil military , as the third citizen after Peter Kleudgen (1815-1825) and Johann Andreas Prell (1826-1831). However, a good four years later in December 1835, Wüppermann resigned in protest against the council decision that the guards of the citizen military could be called upon to open the city gates at night, as he felt this humble work was "contrary to honor and duty". His successor was Carl Möring (1835-1838).

City and church honorary offices

After his departure as head of the citizen's military, Wüppermann made use of the connections he had made there with the long-established Hamburg merchant families and was henceforth involved in the city's deputations . He began in 1837 as an adjunct in the main church St. Michaelis and in 1838 he became one of 10 citizens in the fire fund deputation and one of 2 citizens in the tax deputation, where he worked until 1843. In 1839 he became a subdeacon of the Church of St. Michaelis, was as such part of the “Collegium of the 180s”, an organ that preceded the citizenship in the legislation, and remained so until 1849. Also in 1839 he was one of four citizens in the “Interimist Armament -Commission ".

Wüppermann played a special role after the Hamburg fire , which destroyed around 20% of all buildings in downtown Hamburg from May 5 to 8, 1842. Of the 80 fire syringes that were in use, 25 had to be brought from 15 different cities and communities. The damage would have been considerably greater if the civil service had not pushed ahead with the fire-fighting work and "pressed people to pump", under the guidance of the British engineer William Lindley, who happened to be in the city, had blown up houses to build firebreaks and tidied up. Due to his experience as head of the citizen's military and member of the fire fund deputation, Wüppermann was not only appointed as one of 25 members in the newly established deputation for the reconstruction of the city, but also there together with the former president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Christian Jacob Johns as a reporter on “Improvement of the extinguishing stations ”. On December 8, 1843, Wüppermann and Johns submitted their first report to the council. Although two of the experts you heard, the director of the Lübeck fire stations Carl Heinrich Ahrens (1795-1880) and the Hamburg syringe master Adolf Repsold pleaded for the introduction of a clear (military-like) command structure and for stricter building police regulations, the city council was able to defend itself do not decide to take any of these measures and instruct the Commission of the Technical Section of the Society for the Advancement of Arts and Useful Crafts to examine the proposals. In the reports of April 3, 1844 and November 21, 1844, this left nothing to be desired with the ideas for change. On February 19, 1845, Wüppermann and Johns were again asked to work out reform proposals, taking into account all of the statements that were presented in a 27-page document. A first reform did not come about until May 28, 1847 with the publication of the "Newly revised Hamburg General Fire Cassa Order of 1833 with the modifications that were popularized by the Council and Citizens' Resolution of May 6, 1847 “Hamburg only introduced a professional fire brigade in 1872.

In 1845 Wüppermann resigned his seat in the fire department deputation. In 1848/49 he now acted as a member of the Great College of the Poor and as district head of the poor administration in the 3rd district.

Member of the Hamburg Constituent Assembly

The effects of the March Revolution in Germany in 1848 also affected Hamburg. After suppressed protests against gate barriers and taxes on March 13th at the Millerntor and on June 9th at the Steintor , civic associations, free press, but also radical democrats called for a constituent assembly. Only after the civil military, under the leadership of Colonel Daniel Stockfleth (1794–1868), declared that they no longer wanted to follow further orders from the council to fight the majority of the citizens, did the council agree to a convocation on August 18.

In the elections of October 23, 1848, Wüppermann achieved 1,039 votes in the 7th electoral district and moved into the Constituent Assembly as an elected member. He resigned from his other public offices. The rules of procedure stipulated that the President, as well as the first and second Vice-Presidents, were only elected for a term of four weeks. In the 45th session of the Constituent Assembly on June 7, 1849, Christian Jacob Johns was first elected as 2nd Vice President, but when he did not accept his election due to his state of health, Wüppermann was elected in a second ballot with 104 of 123 votes and left his Competitors Henry B. Sloman (4 votes) and Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth (2 votes) far behind. Together with the President Hermann Baumeister and the first Vice President Johannes Versmann , Wüppermann was elected as the second Vice President in the 57th meeting on July 9, 1849, the 63rd meeting on August 11, 1849 and the 73rd meeting on September 24, 1849 then remained in office until the last meeting on May 2, 1850 by means of an extension decision. In terms of content, he contributed in particular to anchoring a joint leadership of the citizen's military and the Reich garrison in committee work and speech. However, the draft of a Hamburg constitution passed on July 11, 1849 failed, and it was not until August 11, 1859 that the council and the citizenry approved a constitution drawn up by a commission of nine.

Commitment to art and culture in Hamburg

After 1850, Wüppermann no longer accepted any public offices in Hamburg, but instead continued to be involved in numerous art and cultural associations. As a member of the Hamburger Liedertafel , he had already taken part in the Hamburg secular celebration for the invention of printing on June 24, 1840, and in the same year was registered as a member of the gardening and flower growing association for Hamburg-Altona. In 1843 he got involved in the Friends of the Rescue Institution for "morally neglected" children and was a member of the Association for Hamburg History until the end of his life . In 1855 he was mentioned as a member of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System in Hamburg.

His main engagement was at the Hamburg City Theater, which had been owned by Robert Miles Sloman since 1855 . Until his departure in 1861, Wüppermann had given the director of the Stadttheater, Anton Eduard Wollheim da Fonseca , 73,000 marks in Hamburg courant to invest in new inventory. He had thus become a co-owner and co-director, but also kept largely out of the programming of Wollheim's successor Bernhard Anton Herrmann (1800–1876), who headed the city theater from 1861 to 1866, but only took care of the financial matters . Under the team of Wüppermann / Herrmann, the city theater experienced a noticeable upswing in 1862 and recorded 83 performances from September to November alone, including 51 opera evenings, but also plays, ballet and operettas. Charles Gounod personally attended the performance of his opera “ Faust ” on October 7th, 1862 and even conducted it himself on October 9th and 11th. In 1863, after a steadily growing number of people, Wüppermann sat unsuccessfully at the citizenry for state support for the city theater a. At the end of 1863, after the tragic, early death of his eldest son, Wüppermann sold his theater inventory to Sloman for 60,000 Mark-Banco and withdrew completely into his private life.

Johanna Agathe Wüppermann, b. Springhorn, with son Hermann Anton; Oil painting by Friedrich Carl Gröger (1827)

family

Johann Friedrich Anton Wüppermann married Johanna Agathe Springhorn (1808-1891) on January 25, 1825, daughter of the Soltau merchant Johann Heinrich Springhorn (1776-1835). In 1826 she gave him a son, Hermann Anton Wüppermann (1826–1863), a daughter in 1827 and another son in 1830, Heinrich Friedrich (1830–1892). His son Hermann Anton married Ann Caroline Boyes (1830–1865) in 1848, daughter of the British businessman ( Hull , England) and art patron in Hamburg, Thomas Boyes jun. (1799–1883) and initially managed the Mühlenhof Weddelbrook near Bad Bramstedt . In 1857 he finally moved with his wife and two children (John and Caroline) to the cousin of his wife Henry Ernst Boyes (1844-1919) in Davenport (Iowa) , while his younger brother Heinrich Friedrich Weddelbrook took over, in 1870 to the estate with 387 hectares Land expanded and operated until his death in 1892. However, Hermann Anton returned with his family from the USA in 1863, poor and ill. Wüppermann got his son a job as an office manager for director Hermann at the Hamburg City Theater and he joined the Johannisloge "Zur Goldenen Kugel" in Hamburg as an apprentice on January 20 , but in December 1863 Hermann Anton died of tuberculosis . After his wife died two years later at the age of only 35, Wüppermann and Thomas Boyes sent their youngest granddaughter, Isabella Agathe Wüppermann (1859–1941), who was born in the USA, to the private school with a pension for Wippermann Daughters from the educated classes of Mrs. Agnes Constanze Leonhardi to Dresden . There she met the doctor and historian Walter von Boetticher , whom she married in 1880, a year after Wüppermann's death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Staats- und Gelehrezeitung dated December 9, 1825, p. 8
  2. ^ New Hamburg and Altona Address Book for the year 1797, p. 265
  3. ^ Rita Bake: Various Worlds II , Alsterdruck Hamburg 2010, p. 71f.
  4. ^ New Hamburg and Altona Address Book for the year 1839, p. 358
  5. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1822, p. 87
  6. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1824, p. 85
  7. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1828, p. 88
  8. ↑ Critical papers of the Börsen-Halle, 1st year, Hostrup, Hamburg 1830, p. 122
  9. ↑ Staats und Gelehre Zeitung of April 26, 1831, p. 7
  10. ^ Tilman Stieve: The struggle for reform in Hamburg 1789-1842, Diss. Bielefeld, Hamburg 1993, p. 239f.
  11. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1837, p. 55
  12. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1838, p. 75
  13. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1838, p. 77
  14. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1839, p. 55
  15. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1839, p. 74
  16. ^ Karl Heinrich Schleider, `` Attempting a history of the great fire in Hamburg from May 5th to 8th, 1842 '', Hamburg 1843, p. 85
  17. ↑ Dr. JG Gallois: The history of the city of Hamburg, vol. 3, Hamburg 1855, p. 616f.
  18. ↑ List of members in: Österreichischer Beobachter, A. Strauss 1842, p. 691 - edition of June 25, 1842
  19. ↑ Hamburger Feuerwehr-Historiker eV, "The Hamburg fire extinguishing system from the beginnings to the establishment of the professional fire brigade in 1872", Hamburg 2007, pp. 125 - 130
  20. ^ Hamburger Feuerwehr-Historiker eV, "The Hamburg fire-extinguishing system from the beginning to the establishment of the professional fire brigade in 1872", Hamburg 2007, p. 133f.
  21. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar of 1849, pp. 91f., 95
  22. ↑ Matthias Schmoock, '' The Revolution of 1848-49 ''; In Hamburg history book, online, accessed on May 19, 2020
  23. ↑ JM Lappenberg, ` ` Collection of the ordinances of the free Hanseatic City of Hamburg since 1814 '', Vol. 20 (1847/1848), Hamburg 1849, p. 379
  24. ^ Reports on the negotiations of the constituent assembly in Hamburg together with the minutes of the preliminary consultations to the constituent assembly, Niemeyer, Hamburg 1850, pp. 657f.
  25. ^ Reports on the negotiations of the constituent assembly in Hamburg together with the minutes of the preliminary consultations for the constituent assembly, Niemeyer, Hamburg 1850, pp. 859, 945, 1072
  26. ^ Reports on the negotiations of the constituent assembly in Hamburg together with the minutes of the preliminary consultations to the constituent assembly, Niemeyer, Hamburg 1850, pp. 606, 824
  27. ^ The Hamburg secular celebration of the invention of the printing press on June 24 and 27, 1840, Hamburg 1840, p. 65
  28. ^ Archive of the garden and flower growing association for Hamburg-Altona and the surrounding area for the year 1840, p. 4
  29. ^ Message about the Raue Haus zu Horn, report on the children's institution 1843-1844, Hamburg 1844, p. 119
  30. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Vol. 6, Meißner, Hamburg 1875, p. 312
  31. ^ Memorandum for the golden jubilee of the existence of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System in Hamburg on November 3, 1855, Fabricius 1855, p. 38
  32. ^ Hermann Uhde: The city theater in Hamburg 1827-1877, Cotta, Stuttgart 1879, p. 511
  33. ↑ Gustav Bock (Ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, 17th year (1863), No. 3 of January 14, 1863, p. 22
  34. ^ Hermann Uhde: The city theater in Hamburg 1827-1877, Cotta, Stuttgart 1879, p. 515
  35. ^ Hermann Uhde: The city theater in Hamburg 1827-1877, Cotta, Stuttgart 1879, p. 511f.
  36. ↑ Gustav Bock (Ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, 17th year (1863), No. 53 of December 30, 1863, p. 423
  37. ^ Wedding announcement in the state and scholarly newspaper of May 24, 1825, p.8
  38. ↑ Birth announcement in the state and learned newspaper of May 16, 1826, p.7
  39. ↑ Birth announcement in the state and learned newspaper of October 9, 1827, p.8
  40. ↑ Birth announcement in the Staats- und Schehrezeitung from April 16, 1830, p.8
  41. ↑ Genealogy of the Boyes Family on Geneanet
  42. ↑ Helge Buttkereit: "Living in the manner of a manor"; In Hamburger Abendblatt Online from January 3rd, 2007
  43. ^ Agricultural weekly paper for Schleswig-Holstein, Vol. 14 (1892), p. 204
  44. ↑ Ferdinand Roeder: Ferdinand Roeder's theater calendar to the year 1863 (6th year), Pfeiffer, Berlin 1863, p. 232
  45. ^ Wilhelm Graupenstein: History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg, Wulff, Hamburg 1870, p. 195
  46. ↑ For family history cf. Alfred M. Beck: "Hitler's ambivalent attache: Lt. General Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941", Potomac Books, Washington DC 2005 pp. 2f.
personal data
SURNAME Wüppermann, Johann Friedrich Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and head of the Hamburg citizen military
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1879
Place of death Hamburg