Johann Metelmann

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John and Emma Metelmann and their children, ca.1880

Johann Friedrich Carl Heinrich Metelmann , also Mettelman (n) , in the USA John H. Metelmann (born December 6, 1814 in Hohenkirchen , † November 20, 1883 in Biddleborn, Lenzburg Township , St. Clair County , Illinois ) was a German American educator, Protestant clergyman and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives .

Life

Johann Metelmann was a son of the mill master and hereditary miller of Hohenkirchen, Christopher Dettloff Metelmann (1776–1834) and his wife Sophia Christina Catharina, born. Boberz. Her father Johann Boberz was a Kruger in Hohenkirchen.

Johann Metelmann was trained as a teacher at the Ludwigslust teacher training college. From 1839 to 1848 he was cantor and teacher at the Dobbertin school , which was run and financed by the monastery office. At the Landtag zu Sternberg on November 13, 1839, the monastery leaders applied for a second teaching position to expand and organize the school in Dobbertin, with the recommendation of employing a second teacher for the first or higher class of the school under no conditions to drop an individual who has undertaken academic studies . From 1844 to 1846 John Brinckman was tutor in the Dobbertin monastery under the monastery captain Johann Carl Peter Baron von le Fort . Presumably there were personal contacts between Johann Metelmann and John Brinckman during these years, because John Brinckman was already in America from 1839 to 1842 and then a private teacher in Goldberg from 1846 to 1849 . As the second chairman of the Goldberg Reform Association, he had a say in the intellectual content of the Reform Association and, together with Johann Metelmann, worked for and in the revolution beyond Goldberg. They were both co-signers of a Goldberger petition with seven specific demands to the Grand Duke in Schwerin. After Brinckman had to leave Goldberg because of his political activities, Johann Metelmann applied as a former cantor and teacher to Dobbertin for the position there. On November 3, 1850, he wrote to the council: A highly commendable magistrate in Goldberg would usually allow me to set up the private school described above and to settle with my family in the city of Goldberg for this purpose. As early as November 6, 1850, the Goldberg mayor rejected his request because of unexplained Heymath relationships . Even after a lapel of the Dobbertin monastery office and the 45 collected signatures of Goldberg citizens and craftsmen, the magistrate refused to accept his admission to Goldberg on January 8, 1851.

In the election held after the revolution in Mecklenburg on October 3, 1848, he was elected to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin constituency 50: Dobbertin as a member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives. Here he joined the faction of the reform associations, the left and became a member of the committee for the school system .

After the collapse of the democratic movement as a result of the Freienwalder arbitration award , Metelmann was "out of office and in need because of these things" , as Theodor Kliefoth put it in 1858. Kliefoth advised him to emigrate , and so Metelmann emigrated to the USA in 1857. He initially worked as a teacher in the Trinity Congregation in St. Louis , a congregation of the Missouri Synod , but resigned this office on July 30, 1862. As a freelance pastor , he now looked after German Protestant congregations, from Easter 1867 to April 1879 the German Protestant congregation in Highland , Illinois , today Evangelical UCC . In October 1879 he became the first pastor of the newly founded German Protestant community in Lenzburg (today St. Peter's UCC ). At the same time he also looked after the Trinity Church (today Trinity UCC) in neighboring Biddleborn; on January 1, 1881, he resigned his office in Lenzburg and moved entirely to Biddleborn, where he stayed until the end of his life. He was buried in the Biddleborn cemetery.

Johann Metelmann was married twice. His first wife was Anna, geb. Hampke (1815-1845). In 1856 he married Emma, ​​b. Carlsburg (1839-1917). From his first marriage only the daughter Maria (Mary) survived, who married the machinist Jacob Busch from Keokuk , Iowa . He had five children with his second wife: Louise (married William Popp in Lenzburg), Paul Andrew (married Johanna Juenger in Lenzburg), Martin (married Margarethe Schaefferle in Lenzburg and became a business owner in Darmstadt, St. Clair County), Augusta (married Andreas Moes) and William.

literature

  • Portrait and Biographical Record of St. Clair County, Illinois: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens Together With Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Chapman 1892, pp. 503f.
  • Elsa E. Schmidt, Martha Mae Schmidt: History, church records, and cemetery burials of St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Lenzburg, IL 62255, 1878–1978. Marissa, Ill .: MM Schmidt 1977, p. IV

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Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 2.21-4 / 4 population, birth, confirmation, marriage and death lists.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-9 / 7 District Office Schönberg. No. 3706 Buildings on the farmer's hoof No. 4 of Mrs. Heiden, tenant Kurt Metelmann in Hohenkirchen, demolition of the mill with photos 1936–1944.
  • State Church Archive Schwerin
    • State superintendent of Wismar, parish archive Hohenkirchen.
  • Goldberg City Archives, Former Cantor Metelmann files 1850–1851.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book Hohenkirchen, directory in the congregation born, died, confidante and confirmed 1789-1918.
  2. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Grand Duchy), Census Office. 1819 Census. LHAS 2.21-4 / 4 Population, Birth, Confirmation, Marriage, and Death Lists, accessed on ancestry.com on January 21, 2014
  3. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin , 3.7 Klosterkasse, main register of income and expenditure 1839–1849 No. 1267–1278.
  4. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag protocols and Landtag committee 1839 Dobbertin Monastery No. 14.
  5. ^ Günter Rehwagen: The year 1848 in the country town of Goldberg. In: 1848 - the revolutionary events in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Güstrow 1998 pp. 65-67.
  6. ^ Stadtarchiv Goldberg: Former Cantor Metelmann files , regarding his settlement in the city of Goldberg 1850–1851.
  7. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical representation, 1850, pp. 64, 77
  8. ^ Mecklenburgisches Kirchenblatt No. 10, Ludwigslust, September 11, 1858, quoted from Mecklenburg in the USA
  9. ^ O. Hanser: History of Trinity. , Concordia Historical Institute
  10. ↑ Our History ( Memento of February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Diamond Jubilee of the Evangelical Church - Highland, Ill., September 17th, AD 1925, 1850-1925. 1925, p. 8
  11. ↑ 75th Anniversary, St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Lenzburg, Illinois, 1878-1953. 1953, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Metelmann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metelmann, John H .; Metelmann, Johann Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American pedagogue, Protestant clergyman and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenkirchen (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1883
Place of death Biddleborn, Lenzburg Township , St. Clair County, Illinois