Johann Overlach

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Johann Overlach (also: Johannes Overlach ; born September 15, 1625 in Hanover ; died May 8, 1690 ibid) was a German businessman , local politician , city ​​governor , city ​​treasurer and senior . Due to multiple mentions in the correspondence of his contemporary and fellow citizen Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , the name of the Hanover city governor is now part of the world heritage of UNESCO .

Life

Johann Overlach was born during the Thirty Years' War in 1625 as the son of the Hanoverian citizen and businessman Jürgen Overlach and his wife Lucia Horstmann. His parents, who had other sons and daughters, had him baptized as a Protestant , some of them taught their child themselves, but mostly sent him to the city ​​school and also had him taught by “ preceptors ” and prepared for university. Then, however, they promoted the young person's career aspiration to become a businessman and had him mainly teach writing and arithmetic and finally undergo a business apprenticeship. Overlach was able to open his own trading business in 1646 at the age of 21 - just grown up. Soon the old town shopkeeper was - by a considerable margin from the merchant Johann Duve - the second most important Hanoverian supplier for the administration and the court of the royal seat of the Guelphs .

In 1648 Overlach was married for 42 years until his death.

Partially gilded portal with the coat of arms and the name of Johann Overlach and Anna Little on which the Lavesstraße 82 translocated so-called " Overlach'schen House "

Similar to his contemporary Nicolaus Förster , the so-called “Mercator Overlak” in the Leibniz correspondence lived in the “ Köbelingstraße ” before he and Anna Kleine built the so-called Overlach's house designed by the sculptor Adrian Siemerding in 1663 right next to the Marktkirche was built, which today represents the only fully preserved stone facade of bourgeois architecture in the style of the Renaissance in the Lower Saxony state capital.

In 1672 Overlach was elected to the local council of the city of Hanover and gradually held various offices from his council chair. In 1685 he was elected captain by the jury . His duties included, among other things, the combing , through which he on the one hand fame, but on the other hand also "ingratitude, bad gossip and vexation" negotiated.

Overlach died after receiving the Lord's Supper and surrounded by relatives in his own home after a short illness in the early morning of May 8, 1890 at the age of 67. He was buried in his hereditary funeral in the market church of St. Georgii et Jacobi on the 22nd of the same month .

family

On August 22, 1648 Overlach married the maid Anna Kleine , eldest daughter of the Hanoverian merchant Johann Kleinen and godfather of the clergyman Georg Hilmar Ising . The marriage resulted in 14 children; 8 sons and 6 daughters, of whom 3 sons and 4 daughters did not survive their father.

The brothers who survived their father were Johann (junior), Moritz Rüderig, Ludowig, Conrad Heinrich IUL and Christoph Barthold Overlach. The two surviving daughters were married to princely servants: Anna Elisabeth Overlach married the then Princely Osnabrück- Braunschweig-Lüneburg Hofrat and envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg, Christoph Weselow . Margareta Elisabeth Overlach married the Chamber Secretary of the Hereditary Prince Johann Joachim Zeuner .

According to another account, another surviving daughter, Anna Sophia Overlach (1680–1753), widow of postmaster Wolfgang Pollich in Braunschweig, married the physician, city physicist of Wolfenbüttel and botanist Johann Heinrich Burckhardt in Braunschweig in 1711 .

By the time of his death, Johann Overlach had 21 grandchildren, most of whom survived their grandfather.

literature

  • Georg Hilmar Ising , Joh. Rodigerus Weselovius, Daniel Barthold Weselau, Nicolaus Förster, Johann Overlach, Johann Christoph Klein, Christoph Weselau, NG Freund: Bliss / the righteous who died prematurely: Except the 1st and 2nd verses of the 57th chapter Esaiae Bey ... funeral of ... Hn. Johann Overlach Senioris, well-merited Camerarii and city chief of the praiseworthy city of Hanover / Alß the same on May 8th / Anno 1690 ... passed away / And on the 22nd of the same month in his hereditary funeral to SS. Jac. and Georgii bey was set , Rinteln: printed Godfried Caspar Wächter, 1690; Digital version of the SBB

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Overlach, Johann as a personal data set together with cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on July 25, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Georg Hilmar Ising, Joh. Rodigerus Weselovius, Daniel Barthold Weselau, Nicolaus Förster, Johann Overlach, Johann Christoph Klein, Christoph Weselau, NG Freund: Glückseligkeit / der righteous who died prematurely: Except the 1st and 2. Versicul of the 57th chapter Esaiae Bey ... Funeral of ... Hn. Johann Overlach Senioris, well-merited Camerarii and city chief of the praiseworthy city of Hanover / Alß the same on May 8th / Anno 1690 ... passed away / And on the 22nd of the same month in his hereditary funeral to SS. Jac. and Georgii bey was set , Rinteln: printed Godfried Caspar Wächter, 1690; Digitized version of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
  3. ↑ Information in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition
  4. ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Die Residenzstadt , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Volume 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , Schlütersche publishing house and printing house, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 137ff .; here: p. 182; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters , ed. of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, first row: General political and historical correspondence , volume twentieth: June 1701 - March 1702 , revised. by Malte Ludol Babin, Gerd van den Heuvel , Rita Widmaier, ed. from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , Hanover 2006, p. 37; as a PDF document from gwlb.de
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Lavesstraße 82 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 165–166
  7. ^ Hermann Ziegenspeck : Burckhardt, Johann Heinrich , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 3 (1957). P. 40f .; Digitized version of the German biography
personal data
SURNAME Overlach, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overlach, Johannes; Overlak, Johann; Overlag, Johann; Overlak, Mercator
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, local politician, city governor, city treasurer and senior
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1690
Place of death Hanover