Johann Gerhard Helmcke (baker)

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Portrait of Johann Gerhard Helmckes;
Oil painting by Melchior Gommar Tieleman , around 1815, in the Hanover Historical Museum

Johann Gerhard Helmcke (born May 14, 1750 in Stadthagen ; † June 26, 1824 in Hanover ) was a German master baker , grain trader and property speculator . At the beginning of the 19th century he saved Herrenhäuser Allee in Georgengarten from being deforested .

Life

Portrait - Relief from Friedrich Adolf Soetebier on Helmcke monument at the mansions Avenue corner Schneiderberg

Born in Stadthagen, Johann Gerhard Helmcke married the widow of master baker Dietrich Thies on April 20, 1778 in Calenberger Neustadt . As a result, he became the owner of the traditional bakery there, which made Helmcke one of the richest citizens of the city around 1800 .

In addition to the craft in the bakery, Helmcke ran an extensive grain trade. With his fortune he participated in credit transactions and real estate speculation . From 1797 to 1800 he owned the Leibnizhaus and sold it on to a profit of 3,300 Reichstalers .

The foreign rule , under which the city of Hanover initially suffered from Prussian and then French occupation during the Napoleonic Wars from 1801 to 1813 , does not seem to have "harmed Helmcke's economic ventures": in 1807 or 1810 Helmcke is supposed to have bought the trees on Herrenhäuser Allee for 1,336 Louis d'or (according to another tradition 3,000 Reichstaler) and thus to have saved them from the intended deforestation by the French.

Helmcke was the owner of the house at Calenberger Straße 236 and at the same time the landlord of Heinrich Bohnsack , who wrote a “ diary ” about the so-called “ French era ” over the period from 1803 to 1814, which is still popular today .

An oil painting with a portrait of Helmke can be found in the Hanover Historical Museum from around 1810 .

The Hannoversche address book for the year 1823 recorded "Helmcke, J. Gerhard, sen ., Getraidehlassung" at the address Brandstrasse house number 256. On the same page there is a similar story by August Helmcke u. Comp. registered in Schmiedestrasse 189 and the bakers H. and Conrad Helmcke in Calenberger Strasse 256 and 248.

Helmcke's monument-protected tomb in the Neustädter Friedhof

Johann Gerhard Helmcke died in 1824, the year the cities of Hanover and Calenberger Neustadt were unified, and was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof , where his tomb (now a listed building ) can be found. However, the name Helmcke was to be found in Hanover's address books for a long time, mostly in the grain trader category and often in connection with partners.

The patriotic act Helmckes was well delivered half a century later, at two locations in Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae 1859 published chronicle of the residence of Hannover ...

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae: Chronicle of the royal seat of Hanover from the earliest times to the present / edited from the best sources by Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae , Hildesheim: Finck, 1859, digitized version from the Austrian National Library
    • Reprint of the first edition: Hannover-Döhren: von Hirschheydt, in: Contributions to the history, regional and folklore of Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 42, 1977, ISBN 3-7777-0836-4
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Hanoverian portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries, illustrated by Rainer Ossi Osswald , Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, pp. 75–77
  • Klaus Mlynek : Helmcke, Johann Gerhard. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 162 and others, online via Google books
  • Klaus Mlynek: Helmcke, Johann Gerhard. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 284.

Web links

Commons : Johann Gerhard Helmcke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Helmcke, Johann Gerhard in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 27, 2006, last accessed on April 22, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Klaus Mlynek: Helmcke, Johann Gerhard (see literature)
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Napoleonic Wars Franz. And Prussia. Crew. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 459f.
  4. ↑ 1810. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 111 online
  5. ↑ Herbert Mundhenke (arrangement): Hanover 1803 - 1814. A diary , in Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 13 (1960), pp. 49–122; here: p. 76; Preview over google books
  6. ^ Hannoversches Adreß-Buch for the year 1823 , Title II: Alphabetical list of the local residents with comments on their business, the streets in which they live and the house number , p. 58; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Incorporation , in Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153
  8. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The northern suburban development. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 80; and Brühlstrasse. In: middle , annex to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3
  9. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner : Grain trader , in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 166; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ see literature
personal data
SURNAME Helmcke, Johann Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baker and grain dealer, savior of Herrenhäuser Allee
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1824
Place of death Hanover