Justus Friedrich Mithoff

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Justus Friedrich Mithoff (born June 29, 1774 in Hanover , † May 24, 1857 ibid) was a German businessman , local politician and senator .

Life

Mithoff was born during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in the Electorate of Hanover as a member of the Mithoff family . He was the son and the oldest of ten children of the Einbeck- born businessman Johann Friedrich Rudolf Mithoff (born March 20, 1742 in Einbeck; † May 5, 1823 in Hanover) and Marie Wilhelmine Mithoff (born February 17, 1751 in Hildesheim, † March 30, 1793 in Hanover and buried in the garden cemetery ), daughter of Senator Bortmann, who worked in Hildesheim. In addition to a small house in Hanover, the father also owned the house at Marktstrasse 54 from the heirs of the late Justice Councilor Ernst Anton Heiligerbought to run his trading business here. There, the young Mithoff completed his own training as a businessman before he took over his father's company in 1809.

On July 19, 1812 Mithoff signed a marriage contract in Verden an der Aller and married Katharina Elisabeth Lüders (* 1792; † September 13, 1843), daughter of the Verden merchant and senator Heinrich Lüders, on the 21st of the same month. The marriage had eight children, but one son died after just eight days.

After the former Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg was elevated to the Kingdom of Hanover on May 4, 1815, Mithoff joined the Johannis Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär in the Orient of Hanover and received the number 395 of the lodge's regular role.

When the sovereign, King George IV , visited the city of Hanover in October 1821 (coming from England), “Mr. Kaufmann JF Mithoff”, at the time still at Marktstrasse 494 , showed the general celebrations and the street decorations on his house “ transparent painting "with Minerva and Mercur, the messenger of the gods, and a sun illuminating the skyline of Hanover with the subtitle" Hanover's happiest day. "

After the union of the old town of Hanover with the Calenberger Neustadt and the introduction of a new city constitution from 1824, Mithoff was elected to the council of citizens . But after only a few years in this office, Mithoff was elected Senator of the city with 19 votes in favor on March 30, 1827 as the successor to the late Heinrich Gerhard Jacob Lutz. Until then, the still active businessman had also performed the duties of the deacon of the market church . On April 24, 1827, City Director Wilhelm Rumann introduced the newly elected Senator to the Magistrate College. As a result, Mithoff was entrusted with the extensive administration of the St. Spiritus Hospital; a task that Mithoff devoted himself to until 1844. From 1833 to 1849, at the same time, he administered the municipal scholarship register; from 1842 to 1850 also the bill of the college of the brewers' guild , for which he also acted as deputy of the magistrate.

During the constitutional conflict under the constitution, Mithoff and his colleagues stood on the side of the law : In the fight for the constitution with King Ernst August , Mithoff was one of the signatories of, among other things, an armored protest to the German Confederation on June 15, 1837 against the one decreed by the king so-called meeting of estates . Similar to City Director Rumann and together with 12 other colleagues, Mithoff was subsequently sentenced to a fourteen-day prison sentence by the judicial office due to “the content that was offensive to the Royal Cabinet” of their petitions to the Federal Assembly.

According to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1849 , Justus Friedrich Mithoff had his domicile at Marktstrasse 54.

When Mithoff's hearing deteriorated for reasons of age, after around three decades of working for the common good, he received his requested release from his honorary offices on November 1, 1850.

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Justus Friedrich Mithoff was buried in the family grave in the garden cemetery. The inscription on the three-part grave slab on a high plinth bears the simple inscription transcribed by Hinrich Hesse “Resting place for Justus Friedrich Mithoff and family”.

Archival material

Archives by and about Justus Friedrich Mithoff can be found, for example

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Mithoffs Mittheilungen , the house acquired by Heiliger was demolished in March 1881 to break through the then newly constructed Grupenstrasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 - 1874. History of the Lodge. By Br. W. Nöldeke. Secular celebration on March 16 and 17, 1874. Appendix. (List of all members of the lodge from March 17th, 1774 to then 1874. - lodge officials - stutistisches.) Manuscript for Bbr. Freemason , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei der Bbr. Jänicke, 1875, p. 20; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ 'Compare the information in the family database of the Verein für Computergenealogie , which indicates the source as of June 28, 2015: "NLF library: E 0173, area 5, family table of the LÜDERS family from Bergen near Celle"
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff : Reports on the Mitthoff family of the bourgeois and ennobled line, with 3 photolithographic replicas [plates] and an engraved family tree (family book printed as typewriter , not commercially available; print: Hannover: Friedrich Culemann), 1881; P. 84, v. a. P. 87 and others; Digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  4. ^ A b c Johann Karl Immanuel Buddeus (Ed.): German State Archives , Volume 2, Jena: Friedrich Frommann, 1841, p. 363f .; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b Bernd Kappelhoff, Jan Lokers (edit.), Mari-Luise Petzold, Christel Lühmann (collabor.): Marriage foundations , in this: Verden court and historical sources (1663 - 1909). List of sources for house, court and family history in the Verden area (= Lower Saxony. Archive administration: Publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration / inventories and smaller publications of the State Archives in Stade , issue 7), [Hanover]: Lower Saxony State Archive - Stade: State Archive, 2006, ISBN 978-3-926948-04-5 and ISBN 3-926948-04-3 , pp. 358-381; here: p. 377; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Heinrich Dittmer : Authentic and complete description of all the ceremonies that took place in the Hanoverian country in the presence of his royal. Majesty George the Fourth during the month of October, 1821. Decorated with the similar portrait of Sr. Königl Majestät, Georg IV., And one and twenty faithful illustrations. In addition to an encore: retrospectives on similar folk festivals of the Hanoverians in the 18th century. Dittmer, Hannover 1822, p. 161 ( archive.org ).
  7. ^ A b Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Rumann, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 638-642.
  8. ↑ Compare the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover , address and housing gazette, section IV: Alphabetical directory of residents , p. 122; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  9. ^ Hinrich Hesse: The grave inscriptions of the garden church yard in Hanover . In: Journal of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony . Vol. 44 (1939), pp. 235–290, compare the information (as a PDF document) with a photograph on the Gartenfriedhof.de page [ undated ], last accessed on June 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mithoff, Justus Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, deacon, local politician and senator
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1857
Place of death Hanover