Johann Schweffel III.

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Johann Schweffel III.

Johann Schweffel III. (* July 28, 1796 in Kiel ; † April 14, 1865 ibid) was a Kiel entrepreneur and politician of the 19th century.

Origin and family

Schweffel was born as the younger son and one of ten children of the Kiel-based businessman Johann Hinrich Schweffel II (1751-1808) and his wife Lucia Christiana Struve (1756-1805). He had taken over the trading business in Kiel and also the Schweffelhaus built by his father, the councilor Johann Schweffel I (1720–1792), who had moved to Kiel from Meldorf .

Johann Schweffel III. Was married twice:

  • November 5, 1820 with Caroline Grube (1798–1834) from Kiel and
  • May 21, 1844 with Mariane Amalie Jacobine Mathilde Thiele (1814–1893) from Eutin.

The marriages have ten children.

Career

Johann Schweffel III. became an orphan at the age of twelve. In 1819 he took over the business inherited from his father and was elected to the city council of Kiel in 1821, to which he belonged until 1864.

In 1835/36 he was a member of the first assembly of the Holstein estates in Itzehoe. He was involved in the construction of the Altona-Kiel Railway and in the fleet committee from 1848 to 1850.

He built his first machine factory in Kiel in 1825 on Rosenwiese, today's Kaistraße. As a shipowner he had three sailing ships and the steamship Löven, which went to Denmark.

Schweffel & Howaldt around 1850 on the Kleiner Kiel

In 1838 he founded a mechanical engineering company and an iron foundry together with August Howaldt under the name Schweffel & Howaldt . After a short time, the company had 120 employees. These foundations were the first contributions to the later industrialization of Kiel in the 19th century. In addition to agricultural machinery, Germany’s first submarine , the Brandtaucher, emerged from the factory . The first ship propulsion system built in Kiel was for the gunboat Von der Tann of the Schleswig-Holstein Navy. After his death, the workers in his companies erected a memorial near the iron foundry on the Kleiner Kiel, which was very popular in Kiel and which was destroyed in the Second World War. His son Johann Schweffel IV. (1825–1910) joined the Schweffel & Howaldt company in 1854. After the founders' departure in 1879, Schweffel & Howaldt was continued by August Howaldt's sons as the "Howaldt Brothers" and later merged with the shipyard of August's son Georg Howaldt to form Howaldt's works .

literature

  • Hedwig Sievert: Schweffel - merchant family in Kiel in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Biographical lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 1, Neumünster 1970, pp. 244-246.
  • Christian Ostersehlte: From Howaldt to HDW. Kiel / Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0916-8 , pp. 24-38.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Kaistraße. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Schweffel, Johann III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweffel, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kiel entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1865
Place of death Kiel