Johann Heinrich Burchard

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Johann Heinrich Burchard, 1905
Burchard grave complex Ohlsdorf cemetery

Johann Heinrich Burchard (born July 26, 1852 in Bremen , † September 6, 1912 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life

He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Burchard (1824–92) and Marianne Goßler (1830–1908), a grandson of Heinrich Gossler and the great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Gossler . Burchard's father was a merchant in Bremen. Since he became a partner in the trading company Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co in 1853 , the family moved to Hamburg. Burchard spent his school days in Hamburg at the Johanneum and, before the end of it, volunteered in the summer of 1870 to take part in the Franco-German War . Until the summer of 1871 he was a member of the Prussian military. Then he left the Johanneum with the achievement of the Abitur. From 1872 to 1874 Burchard studied law in Leipzig , Heidelberg and Göttingen . He worked briefly for Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co., before February 24, 1875 in Hamburg for the legal profession has been approved. From July 1876 to June 1877 he worked as a public prosecutor's assistant, then he joined Ernst Friedrich Sieveking's law firm . In 1879 he was elected to the first board of directors of the Hanseatic Bar Association established on the basis of the Reich Justice Acts .

In 1884 Burchard was elected to the Hamburg citizenship and on March 2, 1885, to the Senate for the late Karl Cropp . He belonged to this until his death in 1912. In 1903 he was elected First Mayor of Hamburg for the first time . Further terms of office were: 1906, March 27, 1908 to December 31, 1909 and from January 1, 1912 to his death. Burchard was responsible for foreign affairs in the Senate for a long time, so a friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II arose . In 1898 he offered him to change to the Reichsdienst to become director of the colonial department of the Foreign Office , which Burchard refused. As mayor, he worked hard to expand the Hamburger Kunsthalle . As a typical Hanseatic man , Burchard rejected nobility titles and awards of any kind.

The Burchardstraße in Hamburg's old town and the Burchardplatz are also named after him, as the Burchardkai where nowadays the container terminal Burchardkai the HHLA is.

There is a portrait of Burchard by Max Liebermann . It hangs in the office of the Hamburg mayor in the Hamburg representation in Berlin .

family

Burchard married Emily Henriette Amsinck (March 2, 1858 - December 24, 1931) on May 17, 1877, a daughter of Wilhelm Amsinck , granddaughter of Carl Heinrich Willink . His eldest son, Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz , was also a Hamburg Senator.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Burchard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 371
  2. ^ Treue, Wilhelm , legal, economic and tax advice in two centuries, ESCHE SCHÜMANN COMMICHAU , On the history of a Hamburg society, 3rd edition 1997, ISBN 3-00-001424-1 , p. 49 ff.
  3. ↑ cf. the quotations in the article Hanseat
  4. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 134.
  5. ↑ German Gender Book, Volume 210, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Burchard, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1912
Place of death Hamburg