Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien

Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien (* 1843 in Altona ; † 1871 there ) was a master organ builder in Altona.

Life

Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien came the famous organ builder family Wohlien that led his own workshop in Altona for four generations. His grandfather was Johann Heinrich Wohlien , his father Johann Conrad Rudolph Wohlien . After the death of his father in 1866, Eduard took over the family business. In the same year his son Wilhelm Georg Emil Wohlien was born on October 16.

One of the few proven but not preserved works is a new organ, using the richly decorated baroque prospectus of an unknown organ builder from Itzehoe ( Lambert Daniel Kastens ?) From the first chapel of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten , previously (1725–1863) in the Brunsbüttel Jakobuskirche. Then in 1869 for the Easter Church (Hamburg-Eilbek) together with Johann Carl Eduard Erdland, his grandfather's business partner, based on a technical design by Heinrich Schmahl. When his father died while working on the organ at St. Trinitatis in Hamburg-Altona , his colleague Johann Carl Eduard Erdland and his brother and his son Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien completed the renovation in 1867.

Although there was a descendant, this organ building company went out with the early death of Eduard Wohlien at the age of only about 28 years. For his son Wilhelm Georg Emil, born in 1866, the profession of building supervisor is specified in the death certificate .

family

Eduard Wohlien's wife was Amanda Wilhelmine, née Groß . He had at least one child with her. Her son Wilhelm Georg Emil Wohlien was born on October 16, 1866 and died in Hamburg in February 1947.

Individual evidence

↑ Günter Seggermann: The organs in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1272-2 , p. 173 .
^ Heinrich Christoph Ehrenfried Schmahl: The organ of the main church in Altona and its renovation in the years 1866 and 67. Self-published, Hamburg 1868, p. 4, 25.
↑ Gustav Fock : Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38, 1939, pp. 289–373 ( Wohlien p.369 )
↑ ^a ^b Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel death register, 1947, vol. 1, death certificate no.464 for Wilhelm Georg Emil Wohlien, viewed on ancestry.de, 23 August 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Wohlien, Johann Friedrich Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	1871
Place of death	Altona

[1] Günter Seggermann: The organs in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1272-2 , p. 173 .

[2] Heinrich Christoph Ehrenfried Schmahl: The organ of the main church in Altona and its renovation in the years 1866 and 67. Self-published, Hamburg 1868, p. 4, 25.

[3] Gustav Fock : Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38, 1939, pp. 289–373 ( Wohlien p.369 )

[S-4] Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel death register, 1947, vol. 1, death certificate no.464 for Wilhelm Georg Emil Wohlien, viewed on ancestry.de, 23 August 2017.