Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt

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Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt, contemporary copper engraving

Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt , originally Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber (born November 29, 1773 in Borstel , † April 7, 1840 in Goldensee ) was a German landowner and Freemason.

Life

Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber was the son of pastor Johann Christian Wehber (1731–1809), who was appointed provost of the Altes Land parish in 1789 , and his wife, born in Stade. He attended the Latin school in Stade and the grammar school in Verden . At the age of 16 he began studying Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen . in October 1791 he moved to the University of Rostock . After completing his studies, he returned to Borstel in 1794 and passed his first theological examination ( pro facultate concionandi ) on January 9, 1795 in front of the general superintendent Johann Kaspar Velthusen . In the same year he moved to Hamburg , where he was included in the list of candidates for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs . He received a preaching assignment at the main church of St. Catherine . On January 17, 1798 he received his master's degree in Rostock.

However Wehbers life took a completely different direction after the Hamburg businessman Gerhard Heinrich him Walcke than hours teachers hired his children. Walcke died in 1797, and a year later Wehber married the widow Christine Charlotte, nee. Schuldt (1760–1841), one of the two daughters and heirs of the heir to Goldensee , today part of Kittlitz (Lauenburg) , and Niendorf am Schaalsee , Johann Wilhelm Schuldt (1728–1796) and his wife Marie Madeleine, née. Preye (1735-1815). Johann Wilhelm (Jean Guillaume) Schuldt had acquired the two allodial estates in 1770 and established a family entailment commission in 1790 . The family first lived in Niendorf in summer or in their summer house in Altona , which they sold in 1801, and in Hamburg in winter.

Gut Goldensee in the Duncker Collection

In 1808, Wehber leased Goldensee from his mother-in-law and had a new manor house with a park built, which became the family's new residence. After her death in 1815 were Wehbers wife and her sister beneficiaries of their father built Fideikommiss , and Johann Friedrich Basil Wehber took the name Wehber-Schuldt on. On the estate he set up an educational institution that was very successful for several years and had pupils from England, Sweden, Portugal, America and the East Indies . After the death of his sister-in-law in 1830, the administration of Niendorf also fell to him. Both goods were in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , but close to Mecklenburg . Wehber-Schuldt became a member of the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association and served as its director for the Gadebusch district .

Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt was buried in the grave chapel he built in the manor park of Goldensee. The Fideikommiss Niendorf and Goldensee went to his stepson Ferdinand Walcke-Schuldt (1788-1856). His son, the landscape councilor Oscar Walcke-Schuldt (1828-1908) was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1884 as von Walcke-Schuldt . Goldensee stayed in the family until 1930 when it was sold to the Rautenberg family.

Wehber-Schuldt had compiled an important private library of around 10,000 volumes, which was mentioned in a list of private libraries in 1898. Her further fate is unknown. The Goldensee manor was demolished in 1976.

Freemasonry

On March 25, 1795, Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt was admitted to the " Zum Großer Christoph" Lodge in Stade and in 1798 he was affiliated to the " Zur Golden Kugel" Lodge in Hamburg. From 1802 to 1808 he was her master of the chair . From 1802 to 1809 he held the office of speaker in the Provincial Lodge of Lower Saxony . In 1809 he resigned from his Hamburg offices and on July 21, 1809 founded the Harpokrates zur Morgenröthe Lodge in Schwerin . He was her first master of the chair until 1836 and initiated several charitable projects such as the establishment of a boys' free school and a Sunday school for craftsmen. After he had already made a trip to Sweden in 1806, he belonged to a delegation under Christian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Nettelbladt in 1818 , which was held by the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany for negotiations with King Carl XIII. was sent to Sweden . In 1819 the negotiations led to an alliance and friendship treaty between the grand lodges of Sweden and Germany. In 1834 he was involved in the establishment of the highest order department in Hamburg. In the same year, at the 25th Foundation Festival of the Schwerin Lodge, the Grand State Lodge gave him the Decoration of Honor for Honored Lodge Masters.

According to an anti-Masonic article from 1874, he and Christian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Nettelbladt were awarded the Order of Charles XIII in 1819 . have been awarded; However, it is not recorded in the order's membership register.

literature

  • Friedrich Lübker : Joh. Fr. Basilius Wehber-Schuldt , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 19 / I (1841), Weimar: Voigt 1843, pp. 8-16
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein : History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg. Hamburg 1870, pp. 76-86
  • Carl Bröcker: The Freemason lodges in Germany from 1737 up to and including 1893. Berlin: ES Mittler & Sohn 1894, p. 164

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1963 (The Hamburg Church and its Clergy since the Reformation, Volume III), p. 267, No. 1137
  3. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Peter von Kobbe : History and land description of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Volume 3, Altona: Hammerich 1837, p. 331
  5. ^ Nekrolog (Lit.), p. 12
  6. ^ Georg Hedeler: List of private libraries ... List de bibliothèques privées ... Directory of private libraries. Volume III: Germany, Leipzig: Hedeler 1898, p. 97, no. 756
  7. ^ Henning von Rumohr , Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein. Weidlich, Frankfurt / M. 1983, ISBN 3-8035-1216-6 , p. 367
  8. ^ Periodicals for the scientific discussion of the great religious questions of the present day. 3 (1874), p. 119
  9. ^ Anton Frans Karl Anjou: Riddare af Konung Carl XIII: s orden 1811-1900. Biografiska anteckningar. Eskjö 1900