Johann Georg Hamel

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Johann Georg Hamel (born July 17, 1811 in Homburg before the height , † June 24, 1872 there ) was a German businessman, librarian and politician.

family

Hamel was the son of the stocking manufacturer Jacob Christian Casimir Ham (m) el (* December 20, 1781 in Homburg; † June 16, 1836 in the Rhine (suicide)) and his wife Elisabeth Johanna Magaretha née Krag (December 18, 1783 in Erbenheim; † May 11, 1842 in Homburg). Hamel, who was a Protestant denomination, married Anna Maria, born Fischer (born April 21, 1816 in Homburg; † December 10, 1868 ibid) on December 26, 1833 in Homburg, the daughter of the master butcher Franz Martin Fischer.

Life

Hamel was a professional businessman and stocking manufacturer. He also worked as an author and journalist. In 1841 he was one of the founders of a reading club from which the city library emerged. Around 1840 he began to systematically process the city's documents and is therefore considered to be the founder of the city archive of Bad Homburg. A part of Hölderlin's estate was also edited and published by him .

In 1834 he was elected head of one of the five Homburg quarters. In the election for the first state parliament of Hesse-Homburg , Heinrich Will was elected to the state parliament for the constituency of Homburg before the height II. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament .

Works

  • Chronicle 1828–1849
  • Diary from the revolutionary period 1848–1850
  • Hesse-Homburg rhyme chronicle (1860), digitized

literature

  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , p. 203.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 164.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Hamel, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, member of the state parliament Hessen-Homburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1872
Place of death Homburg vor der Höhe