Johann Georg Mönckeberg (politician, 1839)

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Johann Georg Mönckeberg

Johann Georg Mönckeberg (born August 22, 1839 in Hamburg ; † March 27, 1908 there ) was elected to the Hamburg Senate in 1876, to which he belonged until his death. From 1890 he held the office of First Mayor several times . The Mönckebergstraße is named after him.

Life

Johann Georg Mönckeberg, eldest son of the preacher Carl Mönckeberg and brother of Rudolf Mönckeberg , studied after visiting the Gelehrtenschule the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium first in Heidelberg and later in Göttingen Jura . He became active in Heidelberg in the summer semester of 1859 with the Frankonia fraternity . On May 21, 1862 Mönckeberg was admitted to the bar in Hamburg. From 1868 he was also a substitute for the public prosecutor in press trials. Mönckeberg worked as in-house counsel for the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company , of which he was also a member. Mönckeberg was temporarily a lieutenant in the 5th battalion of the civil military . In the mid-1970s, Mönckeberg associated himself with the tax attorney HAR Brandis , whose duties he took over in 1874. In 1871 he moved as a member of the citizenship , there he joined the faction of the right . On July 3, 1876, he was elected to the Hamburg Senate , to which he belonged until his death. When he entered the Senate, he was struck off the bar. Since 1890 he held the office of mayor several times : 1890 and from November 14, 1892 to December 31, 1893, as well as 1896, 1899 and 1902. Further terms of office were from July 5, 1904 to December 31, 1905 and the last time from January 1 to on his death on March 27, 1908. At that time it was customary for the three oldest legally trained senators to take turns in the office of mayor for one year (see list of Hamburg mayors ).

Gravestone of mayor Joh. Georg Mönckeberg ; Mönckeberg family burial site, Ohlsdorf cemetery

During his time in the Senate, the population more than doubled. This was associated with an enormous increase in trade, transport and industry, in living space and infrastructure. Since Mönckeberg, whose domain was state finances, was particularly careful, the Hamburgers gave him the nickname “Mayor Pfennigfuchser”. Nevertheless, Mönckeberg was popular as a member of the Senate and mayor. The workers gave him great credit for defending himself in 1905 against the robbery of the electoral rights in favor of the better-off.

After Mönckeberg's death, the wide traffic street that connected the newly created Hamburg Central Station - it was inaugurated in 1906 - with the Rathausmarkt was named after him: Mönckebergstrasse .

family

Mönckeberg was married to Elise Mathilde, née Tesdorpf , (1846–1923). He was a grandson of the Hamburg lawyer and senator Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1766–1842). He was also a great-grandson of Christian Matthias Schröder . Mönckeberg's eldest daughter, Susanne, was married to Johannes Semler . Her son was the politician Johannes Semler (politician, 1898) and her grandson is Christian Semler . Another daughter of Mönckebergs Mathilde (1879-1958) was temporarily married to Johannes Andreas Jolles . His son Johann Georg Mönckeberg later became a professor of pathology at the University of Strasbourg . The lawyer and MP Rudolf Mönckeberg was a brother of Mönckeberg. The judge and later Senator Otto Wilhelm Mönckeberg was a cousin of Mönckeberg.

literature

  • Hamburg gender book. Volume 2 (= German Gender Book . Volume 19). Starke, Görlitz 1911, ZDB -ID 6157-8 , p. 251.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 122-123.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Carl Mönckeberg (1807-1886) at hamburgerpersoenitäten.de
  2. ↑ a b c Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879. Mauke, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923725-17-5 , p. 360 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1988).
  3. ↑ a b Hamburg gender book. Volume 2 (= German Gender Book . Volume 19). Starke, Görlitz 1911, ZDB -ID 6157-8 , p. 251.

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personal data
SURNAME Mönckeberg, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayor Pfennigfuchser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdHB, First Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1908
Place of death Hamburg