Löbbecke (family)

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Coat of arms of the Löbbecke

The Löbbecke family was a long-established merchant family from Iserlohn , whose family tree goes back to the 14th century. Various councilors and mayors of Iserlohn come from the family. From around 17/18 In the 19th century, many members embarked on business or military careers. The Löbbecke banking house was founded in Braunschweig . In the 19th century many, mostly resident members of the family were raised to the Prussian nobility .

Most of the Löbbeckes have belonged to the Iserlohn Reformed Community since it was founded in the 17th century. Since the municipality was held in high regard by the sovereigns, this favored the political and economic influence of the family.

14th to 18th century

From the 14th century onwards, several Löbbeckes are named as councilors or mayors in chronicles:

  • 1310/13 Gerhard Löbbecke was mayor.
  • Hinrich Lobbeke appears in a document on October 21, 1418
  • In 1459 Hermann Löbbecke was mentioned in a document as the mayor of Iserlohn
  • Hermann Löbbecke was mayor from 1611 to 1620. Hermann Löbbecke had a daughter Anna Elisabeth (1638–1726), who was married to the pastor of Dortmund's Nikolaikirche, Arnold Baack.
  • from 1636 to 1670 Hermann Löbbecke appears in a document as councilor and mayor of Iserlohn. The safe trunk row begins with him
  • From 1660 to 1681 Caspar Löbbecke was mayor eleven times, Melchior junior held this office a total of 13 times.

Towards the end of the 17th century, the Löbbeckes founded commercial enterprises. One of the first was Johann Anton Löbbecke (1683-1730), who set up a trading shop for brass articles in 1729.

  • Johann Anton Löbbecke was married to Anna Sophia Leusmann and had five sons:
    • The eldest son Johann Heinrich Löbbecke (1711–1757) married Anna Theresia Pütter, with whom he had three children. The eldest daughter Theresia Maria was nine years old (1742–1751), two other children died earlier. Johann Heinrich was Hofiskal, third mayor (1738) and lawyer.
    • Friedrich Karl Löbbecke (1716–1761) had six children with his wife Charlotte Bernhardine from Deutecom. With Simeon Henrich Kloeber, a former employee of his father, he founded the company Kloeber & Löbbecke .
    • The third son Johann Anton Löbbecke (1718–1764) was a pastor in Wiblingwerde and unmarried.
    • The two youngest sons were Johann Hermann Löbbecke (1727–1793) and Johann Melchior Löbbecke (1728–1783), who founded Gebr. Löbbecke & Co. in Iserlohn in 1761 , see below.

Entrepreneur in the 18th and 19th centuries

The Braunschweig branch: trading house and banking house Löbbecke

Carl Friedrich Löbbecke

Johann Hermann Löbbecke (1727–1793) founded the commercial business Gebr. Löbbecke & Co. von Iserlohn together with his brother Johann Melchior Löbbecke (1728–1783 ) in 1761 . In 1763 a branch was opened in Braunschweig . While Johann Hermann stayed in Iserlohn, Johann Melchior ran the business in Braunschweig. Johann Melchior had five children with Anna Dorothea Krause.

After Johann Melchior's death, his eldest son Carl Friedrich Löbbecke (1768–1839) took over the business in Braunschweig from 1783. In 1792 Karl Heinrich Löbbecke (1768–1832) got into the business. In 1795 a branch ( Löbbecke and Hollmann ) was opened in Breslau. In 1812 Carl Friedrich and Karl Heinrich retired from the business. While Karl Heinrich went back to the Sauerland and acquired several manors in Hemer (Edelburg, Klusenstein, Apricke), which went to his son Rudolf (1815–1849) in 1839, Carl Friedrich's son Carl Löbbecke (1809–1869) took over the business in Braunschweig. From the trading house was Bankhaus Löbbecke Brothers & Co. .

Luise Löbbecke, honorary citizen of the city of Braunschweig

Luise Löbbecke (1808-1892) became increasingly involved in the social field in Braunschweig and became an honorary citizen. The Löbbecke banking house has been run by the family for generations. Further bankers were in particular Alfred Löbbecke (around 1880), Rudolf Löbbecke (during the Second World War), and until the sale of the bank in 1983, Carl-Friedrich Löbbecke.

The Iserlohn branch: Wilhelm Friedrich Löbbecke & Co. and Gut Schleddenhof

The youngest son of the co-founder of the bank, Johann Hermann, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Löbbecke (1783–1835), trained as a businessman from 1797 to 1803 at the Löbbeckescher Handelshaus in Braunschweig. In 1805 he founded Wilhelm Friedrich Löbbecke & Co. in Iserlohn and, together with the merchant Striebeck, a factory for riding harness and a wool and cloth business.

Alexander Löbbecke

Johann Wilhelm Friedrich was married to Caroline Dorothea Brune, with whom he had five children, including Alexander Löbbecke (1812–1867) and Friedrich Hermann Löbbecke (1817–1882). These two sons took over the father's business. Alexander got out in 1842 and bought the company JH Schmidt Söhne , which he ran with his brother-in-law Wilhelm Schmidt. He also made a military career (one of the main characters of the so-called Iserlohn Uprising in 1849 ) and was a member of the Iserlohn Citizens' Rifle Club .

Friedrich Hermann acquired two brass factories in what is now Hemer and, in 1864, the Schleddenhof estate as his residence, which was located in the area of ​​today's intersection of Mendener Strasse and Seilerseestrasse. An area of ​​400 acres , around 100 hectares , belonged to Gut Schleddenhof . To the east of the Schleddenhof was the 285 m high Hengstenberg, which was renamed Löbbeckenkopf and is still called that today. The building of the former estate existed at Mendener Straße 150 until a few years ago.

In the second half of the 19th century, all Löbbecke's companies ran into economic problems and were either closed or sold. Friedrich Hermann's brass works were bequeathed to his son Karl (Carl) (1848–1914) in 1882. After his death these works were also sold.

Others

Ennoblement

Nobilitations to the Prussian nobility took place on

  • October 15, 1840 (diploma February 1, 1858) for the Prussian Secret Commerce Councilor Eduard Löbbecke in Mahlen, Trebnitz district
  • May 5, 1888 for Oskar Löbbecke in Marienborn, Haldensleben district
  • May 18, 1889 for Premier Lieutenant Gustav Löbbecke in Marzhausen, Witzenhausen district
  • September 14, 1889 for Prime Lieutenant Robert Löbbecke in Dorstadt, Goslar district
  • July 26, 1896 for the Prussian Rittmeister of the Landwehr Eduard Löbbecke on Nachrodt, Altena district
  • May 2, 1897 for his brother Dr. jur. Otto Löbbecke
  • May 30, 1901 (Braunschweig nobility) for the Prussian major Bernhard Löbbecke, entrant on Groß-Thinking near Wolfenbüttel
  • October 21, 1901 for Richard Löbbecke in Glöthe, Calbe district

The sex association founded in 1864 (Löbbecke and von Löbbecke) holds family days every three years.

Coat of arms of the Löbbecke in the coat of arms and manual of the Silesian (including Upper Lusatia) land-based nobility

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) black shields in gold. On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers an open flight , gold on the right, black on the left .

family tree

  • Gerhard Löbbecke (around 1313)
  • Hermann Löbbecke (around 1611)
  • Caspar Löbbecke (around 1680)
  • Melchior junior
  1. Johann Anton Löbbecke (1683–1730) ∞ Anna Sophia Leusmann
    1. Johann Heinrich Löbbecke (1711–1757) ∞ Anna Theresia Pütter
    2. Friedrich Karl Löbbecke (1716–1761) ∞ Charlotte Bernhardine from Deutecom
    3. Johann Anton Löbbecke (1718–1764), unmarried
    4. Johann Hermann Löbbecke (1727–1793) ∞ Marie Anna Katharina Pöppinghaus (from 1764 to 1765), then with Helene Milchsack
      1. several children
      2. Youngest son: Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Löbbecke (1783–1835) ∞ Caroline Dorothea Brune
        1. Emma Löbbecke (1807–1880) ∞ Eduard Schmidt (1802–1842)
        2. Hedwig Löbbecke (1809–1862) ∞ Wilhelm Schmidt (1806–1864)
        3. Alexander Löbbecke (1812–1867)
        4. Johann Hermann Löbbecke († 1816)
        5. Friedrich Hermann Löbbecke (1817–1882) ∞ Emilie Milchsack (1817–1898)
          1. five daughters, two of whom died in childhood
          2. Wilhelm Löbbecke (1839–1881)
          3. Hermann Löbbecke (1840–1900)
          4. Karl (Carl) Löbbecke (1848–1914) ∞ Ida Wangemann
          5. Rudolf Löbbecke (1850-1884)
          6. three more sons
    5. Johann Melchior Löbbecke (1728–1783) ∞ Anna Dorothea Krause
      1. Carl Friedrich Löbbecke (1768–1839)
        1. Carl Löbbecke (1809–1869)
      2. 4 more children

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1907. First year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 490.
  2. ↑ Telling Iserlohn street names. P. 25.
  3. ↑ State Archives Münster, Dep. House of Hemer
  4. ↑ Iserlohn City Archives
  5. ↑ Portraits of an Iserlohn merchant family , p. 31
  6. ↑ Tell Iserlohn Street Names , p. 25
  7. ↑ The nobility of the Glatzer country. ( County Glatz )