Johann Georg Mönckeberg (politician, 1766)

Johann Georg Mönckeberg (born November 7, 1766 in Hamburg ; † April 30, 1842 there ) was a German lawyer, librarian and senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Graves of Senator Johann Georg Mönckeberg (back) and his grandson (front)

Graves of the Mönckeberg family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg

Johann Georg Mönckeberg was the son of a merchant family from Münder / Deister and attended the learned school of the Johanneum and the academic high school . From 1785 to 1788 he studied law at the University of Göttingen and graduated as a licentiate in law. This was followed by a position at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . In 1789 he was admitted to the Hamburg bar and soon enjoyed greater popularity. He was librarian at the Commerzbibliothek of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and owned an extensive library himself. In 1826 he was elected to the Hamburg Senate in the constitutional lottery procedure . There he was particularly active in the field of judicial organization and in the area of higher judiciary.

Senator Mönckeberg was buried on the first day of the Hamburg fire in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. The Mönckeberg family grave was laid out around his tombstone. His grandson was the well-known Hamburg mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1839–1908).

He left behind an extensive private library of over 7,500 volumes, most of which went to the Hamburg City Library at the time , while the Hamburgensien were separated into the Hamburg State Archives .

literature

Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg. Association for Hamburg History , Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923356-26-9 ( Hamburg Life Pictures in Representations and Self-Testimonies 1).
Otto Beneke : Mönckeberg, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 164 f.
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: A hundred years ago. From the diary of Johann Georg Mönckeberg, 1783–1789. Persiehl, Hamburg 1885, ( online ).
FL Hoffmann: Hamburg bibliophiles, bibliographers and historians of literature . Continuation 11: Johann Georg Mönckeberg. In: Serapeum . Journal of library studies, manuscript studies and older literature. No. 23, December 15, 1855, ISSN 1619-3989 , pp. 364-368, online and pp. 377ff., Online , DigiZeitschriften.
Heinrich Harms zum Spreckel, The Mönkeberg from Münder: for the family, Annaberg-Buchholz, 1922.
Lorenz-Meyer, Hamburg coat of arms, Hamburg, 1912.

Web links

Commons : Grave of Johann Georg Mönckeberg (politician, 1766) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Grave area Mönckeberg family Hamburg-Ohlsdorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Oldest ancestors: Jasper Mönckeberg and Agneta Pluns (a distant relative: Major Pluns with his Rotherbaumer Landhaus and JLE Pluns, zu Pöseldorf, son-in-law of JG Repsold and mentor of JH Wichern ), cf. JG Mönckeberg, A hundred years ago, p. 5. Cf. also: J. Koch, The exchange of letters between Johann Caspar Horner and Johann Georg Repsold, Holm, 1999, p. 107 and J. Pluns, The line of origin of the Pluns family in Viermünden, in: HFK, Vol. 23, 1997, 12f.

personal data
SURNAME	Mönckeberg, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, librarian and senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1842
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Oldest ancestors: Jasper Mönckeberg and Agneta Pluns (a distant relative: Major Pluns with his Rotherbaumer Landhaus and JLE Pluns, zu Pöseldorf, son-in-law of JG Repsold and mentor of JH Wichern ), cf. JG Mönckeberg, A hundred years ago, p. 5. Cf. also: J. Koch, The exchange of letters between Johann Caspar Horner and Johann Georg Repsold, Holm, 1999, p. 107 and J. Pluns, The line of origin of the Pluns family in Viermünden, in: HFK, Vol. 23, 1997, 12f.