Johann Hermann von Duhn

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Johann Hermann von Duhn (born May 17, 1772 in Lübeck , † January 15, 1837 in Travemünde ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Duhn was the son of the lawyer Dr. Hermann von Duhn (1742–1781). Orphaned at an early age, he became a businessman and, together with his older brother Heinrich, ran a wholesaling commercial activity in the Lübeck merchant district on Braunstraße with Engl. and German Manufactur- u. Stahlwaaren by the northern countries, Commmissions- and forwarding business under company Brothers of Duhn . During the Lübeck French period in 1811 he was appointed extraordinary member of the Lübeck Municipal Council; the council sent him as Lübeck plenipotentiary to Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout , where he succeeded in reducing the war contribution imposed on Lübeck. On June 16, 1817, he was elected to the city council of Lübeck as the elder of the Schonenfahrer . In 1818 he had to resign from the council due to financial collapse because bankruptcy proceedings were opened over the assets of his trading company as a result of the coalition wars and a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea .

Grave cross in the churchyard in Travemünde

Rehabilitated after three years, Duhn was appointed city governor ( Vogt ) in Travemünde ( Lübsche Vogtei ) in 1821 and held this position until the end of his life. During his tenure as city governor, the fortifications and ramparts of the fortress Travemünde as well as the city wall there were torn down. He was buried under a stone grave cross with three-fitting ends on a pedestal in the churchyard of the Travemünder St. Lorenz Church on the north side of the nave, which has been preserved to this day .

He was married to Sophie Margarethe Elisabeth, b. Harms (en) (1781-1859). Of the couple's five children, Carl Alexander von Duhn worked as a judge at the Lübeck Higher Court and from 1879 at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg . The grandson Friedrich von Duhn became known as an archaeologist in Heidelberg.

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914 , Lübeck 1815, No. 22
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 964

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to an entry in the Lübeck address book for the year 1798 , p. 39
  2. ^ After Friedrich von Duhn: Carl Alexander von Duhn. A picture of life. In: Lübeckische Blätter 46 (1904), pp. 322-330. here p. 323
  3. ^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 63 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )
  4. ^ Hartwig Beseler: Kunsttopographie Schleswig-Holstein , Neumünster 1974, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Duhn, Johann Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1837
Place of death Travemünde