Julius Hüniken (1824-1891)

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Family coat of arms on the Weitendorf manor
Vogelsang manor house
Kaarz Castle
Mausoleum in the Kaarz estate park

Julius Hüniken , also Hünicken (born December 10, 1824 in Oker am Harz , † October 9, 1891 in Kaarz , today part of Weitendorf ; full name: Julius Johann Wilhelm Moritz Hüni (c) ken ) was a German merchant, shipowner and landowner .

Live and act

Hüniken went as a businessman, on behalf of his relative Georg Friedrich Vorwerk , from Hamburg to Valparaíso , where he and Otto Uhde built up the Uhde & Hünicken company from 1847 , later Hünicken, Bahr & Co. , which was very successful in overseas trade. After his brother-in-law Adolph and Friedrich Vorwerk took over the company in 1860, he returned to Hamburg as a wealthy man. From 1864 to 1869 he was the owner of the JJWM Hünicken shipping company , which operated the three-masted iron barque Flottbek built in 1865 in South America.

Hüniken was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1868 to 1872 .

In 1869, Hünicken decided to become a private landowner in Mecklenburg. On June 6, 1872, he acquired the Kaarz estate, which at that time comprised 821.3 hectares, for 373,500 gold marks . He bought several estates and leaseholds, including 1873 Weitendorf (454.3 hectares), 1875 Kölpin near Crivitz (789.9 hectares), now part of Demen , and 1884 Vogelsang (572.9 hectares), now part of Lalendorf . Contemporary literature points out with appreciation that he converted almost all of his acquisitions into valuable property through extensive land improvements and stately buildings . Since the mid-1870s a member of the Mecklenburg Forestry Management Association , he had extensive reforestation measures carried out in Kaarzer Holz . He also had exotic tree varieties planted, such as the sequoia trees that have survived to this day in the Kölpiner Forest , near the Demen district of Venzkow (district of Kölpin), which were popularly named Adam and Eva .

From his Mecklenburg possessions, Hüniken founded a family entrepre- neurship in 1886 . After his death, according to the foundation, the lot decided on the administration of the individual goods. Georg (Julius) Hüniken received Vogelsang, Erwin (Julius) Weitendorf and Kölpin and (Wilhelm) Julius Kaarz, whereby the latter two were not yet of legal age and were represented by guardians.

Hüniken was buried in the mausoleum built for him in Kaarz and now a listed building on the road to Weitendorf.

family

Hüniken married Sarah Vorwerk (1836–1930), a daughter of Georg Friedrich Vorwerk , who was a cousin of his father.

literature

  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Between Hamburg and Chile: Hochgreve & Vorwerk, Hamburg, Vorwerk & Co., Chile, Vorwerk Gebr. & Co., Hamburg, Vorwerk y Cía. SA, Chile. Hamburg 1995
  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Julius Hüniken (1824-1891): from merchant to lord of the castle. In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter 14 (2003), pp. 283–289 ISSN  0931-0185

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Joachim Schröder: The brothers Augustus Friedrich and Gustav Adolph Vorwerk. Two Hamburg merchants. Hamburg: Hamburg Scientific Foundation 2007 ( [1] ), p. 28f.
  2. ↑ Information on Flottbek . The ship was sold to Ferdinand Laeisz in 1869 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Raabe; Gustav Quade: Mecklenburg Fatherland Studies. 2nd Edition. Volume 1. Wismar: Hinstorff 1893, p. 1115
  4. ↑ The nature in Kaarz ( Memento of the original of April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the German Forest Youth  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kaarz.dwj-puenktchen.de
  5. ↑ Adam and Eve , Around Crivitz: Mammutbaum ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rund-um-crivitz.de
  6. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Official supplement. No. 25 (1892), p. 130
  7. ↑ List of historical monuments for the Sternberger Seenlandschaft department ( memento of the original from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 48 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bks-mv.de
  8. ↑ Short Chronicle on schlosskaarz.de
  9. ↑ Gustav Adolph Vorwerk: Ein Hamburger Ambiente , private printing, Hamburg 1991 p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Hüniken, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hünicken, Julius; Hüniken, Julius Johann Wilhelm Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, shipowner and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Oker am Harz
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1891
Place of death Kaarz Castle , Weitendorf (near Brüel)