Johann Gabe

Johann Gabe (born September 7, 1737 in Altona , † June 10, 1817 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant and senator in Hamburg.

Life

Johann Gabe came from an originally Silesian merchant family that has been recorded in Altona since 1660. He was the son of a merchant of the same name and his wife Magdalena Elisabeth Meyer. Johann Gabe attended the Christianeum until 1751 and then worked in Thomas Meyer's shop. In 1755 he moved to Massarelos in Portugal . Here he worked as an accountant in the company Haber Mester, Amsinck and van Beyert and later as a partner in the firm Amsinck, Beyert & Co .

Gravestone stele for Senator
Johann Gabe , Ohlsdorf cemetery

After his return to Hamburg in 1778, after initial problems, Gabe founded the trading company Johann Gabe & Comp. which was later renamed Gabe & Sohn . He retained his partnership with Amsinck, Beyert & Co. Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi worked in this company until 1799 . In addition to his successful business activity, Gabe attended a monthly table company from 1783. Lawyers, merchants, writers and politicians took part in the discussion group, which made a decisive contribution to the formation of opinion in Altona and Hamburg. The visitors to Gabe's garden house in Borgfelde included Johann Georg Büsch , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Caspar Voght , Georg Heinrich Sieveking , Johannes Schuback and Johann Michael Hudtwalcker .

Gabe was a deputy from 1782, then from Petri in 1787 for one year Preses and from 1795 to 1801 senior adjunct of the Commerzdeputation . After being elected senator on October 16, 1801, he held this office until June 10, 1814. The official task was due to a long illness.

In addition to good relationships with Hamburg notables , the Gabe family was also closely connected to Hamburg's Jews, especially Abraham Meldola and Daniel Abensur . Together they financed the printing of works by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . Gabe also sponsored others, including the teacher Jürgen Elert Kruse . Kruse dedicated the fourth edition of his successful “ General and Special Hamburg Contorist ” from 1782 to the deputies of the Chamber of Commerce / Commercium, including Johannes Gabe.

Johann Gabe's tombstone was moved in 1903 from its original location, the St. Petri burial ground (part of the old Hamburg “ Dammtorfriedhöfe ”) to the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square Y 23 (northeast of chapel 2).

family

During his stay in Portugal, Gabe married Franziska Felicia Hitchcock (1746-1820) in Porto . His marriage to his wife from Lancaster produced five children: Jack / Johann (1776–1804), Pedro / Peter (1778–1831), Franziska / Fanny (1780–1864), Maria Elisabeth / Mary (1785–1834) and Heinrich / Harry (1787–1849). Gabe's youngest son Heinrich continued the company Gabe & Sohn founded by his father until 1849 after his death. Subsequently, his nephew Pedro / Peter, a son of the brother of the same name, who died early, took over the management from 1849 to 1868, followed by Eduard M. Brödermann (1842–1904) until 1904.

The children and grandchildren of Gabes married into the upper class of Hamburg. Maria Elisabeth / Mary married the merchant and senior citizen Anton Diedrich Schröder , Franziska / Fanny the Senator Ferdinand Schwartz. Jack / Johann married Johanna Philippine Henriette Koch, a daughter of the Hamburg mayor Johann Daniel Koch .

literature

Michael Studemund-Halévy : Gabe, Johann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 108 .
Georg Hermann Sieveking : From the history of the Gabe and Schwartz families , in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 21.1916, pp. 168–202, SUB Hamburg
9. Commercium , in: Hamburg State Calendar on the ... th year of Christ, in it a correct directory ... , Hamburg State. In the year ...; VII. Notable councilors and bourgeois deputations ...; Carl Wilhelm Meyen, Hamburg, ( digital copies ).

Web links

Johann Gabe. In: Hamburg personalities from 801-2013. Museum for Hamburg History and Society Harmony from 1789, accessed on May 22, 2018 .

Remarks

↑ Deputierte des Comercii , in: Hamburgische Staatskalender auf das 1783te Jahr, ... , p. [61]. The information in the Hamburg biography that Gabe had been a member of the Commerzdeputation from 1792 and was elected President in 1795 cannot be substantiated with those in the respective editions of the Hamburg State Calendar .
↑ 9. Commercium , Alt – Adjungirte, in: Hamburgische Staatskalender auf das .... th year, ... , (for the years 1796–1801. Deputies consulted the former adjoints in disputes.)
↑ Kruse also dedicated the previous editions to the respective deputies of the Chamber of Commerce.
↑ Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt. The tombs of the upper class in the old Hamburg cemeteries . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1997, page 129

personal data
SURNAME	Gabe, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman and senator in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1817
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Deputierte des Comercii , in: Hamburgische Staatskalender auf das 1783te Jahr, ... , p. [61]. The information in the Hamburg biography that Gabe had been a member of the Commerzdeputation from 1792 and was elected President in 1795 cannot be substantiated with those in the respective editions of the Hamburg State Calendar .

[2] 9. Commercium , Alt – Adjungirte, in: Hamburgische Staatskalender auf das .... th year, ... , (for the years 1796–1801. Deputies consulted the former adjoints in disputes.)

[3] Kruse also dedicated the previous editions to the respective deputies of the Chamber of Commerce.

[4] Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt. The tombs of the upper class in the old Hamburg cemeteries . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1997, page 129