Johannes Fehling
Johannes Fehling (born November 18, 1835 in Lübeck ; † November 19, 1893 ibid) was a German businessman and senator from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Fehling received his commercial training in Hanseatic style and classically in Altona , Bremen , Bordeaux and Glasgow . In 1859 he became a partner in the company of his father Johannes Christoph Fehling († 1882) in Lübeck , which from then on was called Johs. Fehling & Sohn operated. In 1861 he became a partner in the Lübeck company Charles Petit & Son . From 1866 he represented the interests of the Austrian Empire as consul in Lübeck. In 1876 Fehling became a member of Lübeck's citizenship. He was an honorary commercial judge and a member of the Maritime Commission in Berlin at the Reich level. In 1878 he was elected to the city's Senate, where he initially represented shipping interests in the Commission for Trade and Shipping, of which he was President from 1892 until his death. He continued to work for the seafaring school and was a commissioner for the sea control . Fehling was chairman of the board of directors of the general hospital (1880-1893) and has made a name for himself in the construction of the Lübeck hospital and its administrative reform. He was also a member of the city's finance department and was a member of the Senate's Commission for Imperial and Foreign Affairs from 1884 to 1893.
family
He was married to Henriette Charlotte ( Tottie , born April 1, 1840 in Lübeck; † November 19, 1929 ibid), b. Harms, a daughter of the wine merchant and consul Johann Heinrich Harms (1810–1893) and his wife Charlotte, b. Leithoff (1819-1903). Of the five sons and three daughters of the couple's daughter married Adele in 1890 to the ranks of the second Hanseatic Infantry Regiment standing second lieutenant Bernhard von Hindenburg .
With his death he cleared the place for his younger brother, the later mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling , in the Senate according to Lübeck's constitutional law .
Company owner of the Petit company
Petit house from 1876 on the corner of An der Untertrave 3 / Kleine Altefähre in Lübeck's old town
Fehling's urn grave in the Burgtorfriedhof
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 1011
- Gerhard Ahrens : Fehling, Johannes (Hans) , in: Alken Bruns: Lübeck CVs. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , p. 125
- Gerhard Ahrens : Hindenburg's brother lies in the Burgtorfriedhof. In: Lübeckische Blätter 2010, pp. 390–391.
- Harry von Rège : List of officers of the Infantry Regiment No. 76 ; 1902, number 160, page 127/128
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehling, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fehling, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1893 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |