Johanna Margaretha Sieveking

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Hannchen Sieveking, painting by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1784)

Johanna Margaretha Sieveking b. Reimarus, called Hannchen (born November 20, 1760 in Hamburg ; † June 12, 1832 ibid) was the wife of the Hamburg merchant Georg Heinrich Sieveking and the center of an enlightening circle in Hamburg.

Life

Portrait of Friedrich Carl Gröger (1822)

After the early death of her mother, the daughter of the doctor and scholar Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus grew up with her aunt Elise Reimarus , who was considered one of the most educated women in Hamburg at the time, was friends with important enlighteners such as Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and was also an author herself was active. After her father married Sophie , the sister of the enlightener August Hennings, in 1770 , his house became a center of intellectual and literary life in Hamburg. It was there that “Hannchen”, as she was commonly known, also met her future husband, whom she married in 1782.

Joh. Marg. Sieveking family grave complex in Ohlsdorf cemetery
Plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

When he bought a country house in Neumühlen (on the site of today's Donners Park ) together with his friends Conrad Johann Matthiessen and Piter Poel in 1793 , Johanna Sieveking, together with Poel's wife Friederike, became host and center of a growing cosmopolitan and art-loving society “from the European Rank". Every Sunday up to 80 people were guests in Neumühlen, including business partners and friends from Hamburg, but also traveling scholars and writers such as Karl August Böttiger , Wilhelm von Humboldt , Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , Johann Georg Rist and Henrich Steffens . Johanna Sieveking had a particularly close and lifelong friendship with Caspar Voght , who also became the godfather of her son Karl Sieveking .

After the sudden death of Georg Heinrich Sieveking in 1799, Johanna not only ran the Neumühlen country estate, but also continued her husband's trading house together with the partners Jean François Bertheau and Friedrich Joachim Schlueter . She also enabled her five children, including the later Senate Syndicus Karl Sieveking and the mayor Friedrich Sieveking , a proper education. When the trading house had to file for bankruptcy as a result of the continental blockade imposed by Napoleon in 1811, Johanna had the Neumühlen country estate auctioned and moved back to her parents' house in Hamburg's Fuhlentwiete, where she maintained hospitality, albeit more modest, into old age.

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square S 25 / S 26 (area between Waldstraße and Kapellenstraße), there is a stele-like tombstone for Johanna Margaretha Sieveking (upper area) and son Friedrich Sieveking ( lower area) in the Sieveking family grave complex . Her husband Georg Heinrich Sieveking, who died in 1799, was buried in the family grave in the church of St. Nikolai and in 1810 was transferred to the burial place of the same name . His name is not engraved on the stele.
In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Outstanding Women are remembered on the collective grave (together with Caroline Perthes and Emilie Wüstenfeld ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch: Sieveking, Georg Heinrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 291-292 . , here p. 292.
  2. ^ Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt: the tombs of the upper class on the old burial grounds in Hamburg. Issue No. 17 of workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. Verlag Christians, 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , p. 127, column Friedrich Sieveking
personal data
SURNAME Sieveking, Johanna Margaretha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieveking, Hannchen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg salonnière in the age of enlightenment
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1832
Place of death Hamburg