Johann Helfrich Adami

Johann Helfrich Adami (born April 14, 1792 in Quakenbrück , † April 4, 1864 in Bremen ) was a German businessman and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Adami was the son of the doctor Johann Anton Adami (1760–1804) and the pastor's daughter Lucia Elisabeth born. Heye (1773-1833) in Quakenbrück. In 1803 he moved to Bremen and lived with his uncle, the pastor and rector of the Bremen Cathedral School, Hermann Bredenkamp (1760–1808). He attended high school and completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist from 1810 to 1811 and then an apprenticeship as a wine maker . Finally, in 1818, he became a businessman. He received citizenship in Bremen in 1819 . He was then a partner in the North American dealership HH Meier & Co. owned by the shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier . He later became a senior partner in the company. He became a member of the Bremen Citizens' Convention and was a member of the port construction committee for Bremerhaven . In 1823 he became a deacon at Bremen Cathedral .

On August 12, 1840, he succeeded Johann Friedrich Abegg as senator in Bremen. He resigned from this office for health reasons on January 15, 1853.

In 1843 Adami acquired the site of an estate in Sebaldsbrück , which in the Middle Ages was the fourth archbishop's aristocratic Sattelhof . He built Sebaldsbrück Castle as a mansion in the neo-Gothic Tudor style around 1850 .

In 1825 he married the merchant's daughter Pauline Albers (1804–1868). Both had seven children. His daughter Caecilie Caroline married the businessman Franz Friedrich Droste, son of the senator of the same name, Franz Friedrich Droste (politician, 1784) in 1851 .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .