Johann Holler

This article deals with the building contractor Johann Holler. On the merchant and patron see Johann Hermann Holler .

Johann Holler (born November 28, 1745 in Hodorf ; † October 31, 1803 in Rendsburg ) was a German carpenter, building contractor and timber merchant who was involved in the construction of the Eider Canal .

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Johann Holler was a son of the shoemaker and ferryman Marc Holler (* September 14, 1703 in Hodorf; † April 7, 1759 there) and his wife Magdalena, née Lose (* around 1721 in Pritzen ; † December 11, 1775 in Hodorf).

Holler attended a village school in Heiligenstedten and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Itzehoe . He then worked as a carpenter in Hamburg and as a ship carpenter at sea. In November 1764 he was shipwrecked off the coast of the Netherlands, where he then worked in hydraulic engineering. Then he went back to Schleswig-Holstein and opened his own carpentry in Wilster . A short time later, his younger brother Hartwig was working in the workshop. He had received commercial training from an uncle in Wilster.

In 1772 Holler first set up "screw mills" that were supposed to drain the lands of the Wilstermarsch . Holler knew these mills from his time in the Netherlands. These were wind-driven pumping stations that conveyed water by means of an Archimedean screw . Due to their better performance, they replaced the paddle wheel mills used up until then and quickly found widespread use in the Elbmarschen Holsteins and Hamburg. The carpentry of the Holler brothers received many orders and expanded.

In 1777 the brothers worked as timber merchants and moved their company to Rendsburg. In the following years they played a major role in the construction of the Schleswig-Holstein Canal . They brought in the lumber and built locks, bridges and timberwork for the waterway. Holler's screw mills were used to keep the earthworks drained. With the work on the canal and in the drainage system, Holler achieved an achievement that reached far beyond Zimmerer of his time. In the modern sense, he worked here as an engineer.

After the canal construction was completed in 1784, the timber trade was the most important division of the Holler brothers. As Rendsburg was on the canal, they were able to procure wood from Scandinavia with their own ships. After Johann Holler passed away, Hartwig Holler took over the sole management. In 1817 it was taken over by his son Markus Hartwig , who later turned the business into the Büdelsdorfer Carlshütte .

family

Holler married Margaretha Lühr (* 1755 in Wilster; † 16 September 1797 in Rendsburg) in Wilster on November 17, 1774. Her father Michael Lühr worked as a brewer and was married to Engelke, nee Eggen. The Hollers had three sons and four daughters. The son of Marc (Max) (born August 17, 1775 in Wilster; † June 30, 1814 in Rendsburg) worked in Rendsburg as a merchant. The daughter Friderica Margaretha (born January 8, 1789) was the second wife of the War Commissioner Georg Ferdinand von Mechlenburg.

literature

• Hans Rohde: Holler, Johann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 126-127.