Johann Friedrich Homeyer

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Johann Peter Friedrich Homeyer (born January 13, 1753 in Sanzkow ; † March 28, 1818 in Wolgast ) was a German merchant, ship owner , royal Swedish councilor and knight of the Wasa Order . Together with his son August Wilhelm, he played an important role in the economic rise of the city of Wolgast in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

Johann Friedrich Homeyer was born as the son of the Sanzkower pastor Johann Jacob Homeyer (1708–1759) and Christiane Dorothea Veronika Homann. When the father, appointed provost of Schwaan in 1759 , died, he was sent to Prenzlau, where he attended school. At the age of twelve he went to Wolgast, where he learned the trade in the shop of the merchant Sonnenschmidt. There he was entrusted with the management of important commercial transactions early on and later became a partner.

In 1786 he married Sophie Dorothea Droysen, the daughter of the Wolgast archdeacon Droysen. In 1791 he opened his own shop. Around 1800 he was a large-scale grain trade and was one of the largest grain exporters in Swedish Pomerania . He had 23 ships built at Wolgast shipyards, bought four in Wolgast and more in Gothenburg . Homeyer went with his children in 1806, his wife had already died in 1803, before the French invaded Western Pomerania into exile in Gothenburg. There he acquired extensive estates and founded another business next to the one that still existed in Wolgast. When the city was almost completely destroyed by a major fire, he donated 2000 thalers and saved the residents from famine with grain that he had brought on his ships from Wolgast. He was appointed by the Swedish king to be a commercial councilor and knight of the Vasa order . In 1815 he returned to Wolgast.

In his will, Homeyer decreed that 5,000 thalers were to be left in the shop at all times, of which 250 thalers a year should benefit the poor of the city of Wolgast.

family

From the marriage with Sophie Dorothea Droysen came five daughters and three sons

  • Sofia Dorothea Friederike (* October 8, 1787; † November 1, 1873) ⚭ 1810 Johann Adolf von Pfeiff (* June 17, 1783; † May 14, 1837), master of macaws in Sweden
  • Charlotte Johanna Charlotte (* May 5, 1789) ⚭ Dr. Med. August Theodo Kriebel († 1860) from Wolgast
  • SC Amalie (1791–1831) ⚭ 1791 E. Ludenburg from Gothenburg
  • Johann Friedrich (* November 12, 1792; † April 7, 1842), Lord of Murchin and Libnow (Libbenow) ⚭ Luise Frederike von Bornstedt (* November 27, 1804; † October 6, 1845) from the Relzow family
  • August Wilhelm (1793–1856), his successor ⚭ Wilhelmine von Schubert
  • Carl Gustav (1795–1874) lawyer and Germanist ⚭ Pauline Stenzler (* 1805)
  • Franziska Juliane (February 2, 1797 - April 10, 1847) ⚭ Hans Ludwig Heinrich von Behr (December 28, 1789 - June 15, 1837)
  • Christine Caroline Leopoldine (* 1798) ⚭ 1819 August Friedrich Barkow Greifswald lawyer

literature

  • Ines Kakoschke: Wolgast family portraits. The Homeyers. In: Festschrift 750 Years of the City of Wolgast 1257–2007. History and stories from our city. City of Wolgast (Ed.) 2007, p. 97f.
  • Pomeranian historical monuments , volumes 3–4, p.170

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher:  Homeyer, Carl Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 589 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Ulrike Gleixner, Marion W. Gray: Gender in transition: discourse and practice in German-speaking Europe, 1750-1830. University of Michigan Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-472-09943-6 , p. 80 ( online )
  3. ↑ Pfeiffer # 289
  4. ↑ https://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1181681588
  5. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1906. Seventh year, p.42

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personal data
SURNAME Homeyer, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Homeyer, Johann Peter Friedrich (full name); Homeyer, Peter Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, ship owner and royal Swedish councilor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanzkow
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1818
Place of death Wolgast