Karl Sieveking

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Karl Sieveking, lithograph by Otto Speckter

Karl Sieveking (born November 1, 1787 in Hamburg ; † June 30, 1847 ibid) was a Hamburg Senate syndicate , diplomat, politician, art patron and philanthropist . Although never mayor or senator, he was one of the most influential personalities in Hamburg in the first half of the 19th century. The many traces he left in his hometown include: a. the Rauhe Haus , the art association and the former Hammer Park estate .

Life

The Sieveking family originally came from Westphalia and had been a merchant family based in Hamburg since the middle of the 18th century . The son of the businessman Georg Heinrich Sieveking was originally supposed to also become a businessman, according to the father's wishes. The mother Johanna Margaretha Sieveking , daughter of the scholar Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus , on the other hand, promoted the musical and artistic interests of her son at an early age and, after the death of his father, sent him to the Katharineum in Lübeck , the learned school of the Johanneum and the academic high school in Hamburg . At the graduation ceremony, he and August Neander (with whom he remained lifelong friends) gave speeches in Latin.

He then studied law and political science in Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1806 to 1810 . After a brief spell as secretary to his uncle Karl Friedrich Reinhard , Minister at the court of King of Westphalia , Sieveking first went back to Göttingen where he is on the "History of the Platonic Academy in Florence" habilitated . During the Wars of Liberation he helped to build up the Hamburg Civil Guard and entered Paris in 1815 in the wake of Wellington .

In 1819 Sieveking was appointed representative of the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen in St. Petersburg , and a year later he was appointed syndic of the Hamburg Senate. In this office, too, Sieveking primarily worked in the field of Hamburg's foreign relations: he was involved in the drafting of the Elbe Shipping Act on duty-free trade on the Elbe. In 1827, in Rio de Janeiro, he negotiated a trade agreement with Brazil, which had just become independent, and opened up the lucrative South American market for Hamburg merchants.

From 1830 he represented his hometown as envoy to the Bundestag of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main.

In addition to his diplomatic and political work, Sieveking worked, among other things, as a sponsor of numerous artists of his time, as well as the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 and was one of the committed members of the art association . He also made it possible to found the Rauhen Haus for neglected children by letting Johann Hinrich Wichern property from his private property.

Sieveking Mausoleum in the Old Hammer Cemetery

Karl Sieveking and his wife Caroline Henriette de Chapeaurouge were buried in the Alten Hammer Friedhof at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Hamburg-Hamm in the mausoleum commissioned by him and designed by the architect Alexis de Chateauneuf , the oldest mausoleum in Hamburg ( location ). His cousin Amalie Sieveking was also buried here. The grave of Johann Hinrich Wichern is also nearby .

Johannes Hermann Sieveking was his son, Karl Sieveking (1863–1932), Georg Herman Sieveking (1867–1954) and Heinrich Sieveking (1871–1945) were his grandchildren.

Honors

In 1841 he received the Bene Merenti commemorative coin, the highest award in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The Sievekingsallee and the Sievekingdamm in Hamburg-Hamm were named after Karl Sieveking .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Sieveking  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Joist Grolle: Sieveking, Karl . In: Hamburg biography . Vol. 3, Göttingen 2006, pp. 361–363, here: p. 361.
  2. ^ Karl Sieveking and David Mendel: Duo oratiunculae: held when leaving the Johanneum in 1805 = two Latin speeches . Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1956.
  3. ↑ Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City), 1827.17. November . In: Diplomatic Archive for Contemporary and State History . tape  18 . JG Cotta, ZDB -ID 2792887-1 , p. 341 ( google.de ).
  4. ↑ Walter Kresse: The effects of the trade agreements of the Hanseatic cities with American states on Hamburg shipping . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . tape 60 , 1974, pp. 141 ( uni-hamburg.de [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Uwe M. Schneede: A public for art - The beginnings of the art association in Hamburg (and elsewhere) . In: Uwe Fleckner, Uwe M. Schneede (ed.): Bourgeois avant-garde - 200 years of the art association in Hamburg . Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4374-7 , pp. 14 .
personal data
SURNAME Sieveking, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1847
Place of death Hamburg