Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz

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Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz, contemporary portrait

Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz (born June 10, 1815 in Barmstedt , † March 15, 1870 in Altona ) wrote the lyrics for the song Schleswig-Holstein Meerumschlungen in 1844 .

life and work

Chemnitz was born in Barmstedt as the fifth of 14 children of Pastor Johannes Paul Chemnitz in the pastorate "An der Hörn" - the predecessor of today's pastorate at Chemnitzstrasse 9. The composer and organist Nicolaus Bruhns was one of his ancestors .

education

His father was first a catechist, then second compastor at the Holy Spirit Church and taught his son himself up to primary school level. Matthäus Friedrich then went to the Christianeum in Altona, where he graduated from high school in 1835. The father died in 1834. The mother had to move to the preacher's widow's house at Reichenstrasse 16 with her underage children. In 1840 Chemnitz passed his state examination in law in Kiel .

Song text Schleswig-Holstein wrapped around the sea

He then went to Schleswig , where he settled as a public prosecutor and lawyer . There he became a gymnast and soon joined the Schleswiger Liedertafel. His acquaintance with the cantor at St. John's Monastery , Carl Gottlieb Bellmann , led to the creation of the song Schleswig-Holstein Meerumschlungen .

This had its premiere on July 24, 1844 at the "Schleswig Singers Festival", where blue-white-red flags were displayed as a symbol for Schleswig-Holstein. This was followed in June 1845 by the "German People's and Singers Festival" in Eckernförde , the "North German Singers Festival" in Lübeck and in August 1845 by the "Singers Festival in Würzburg", where the blue-white-red flag with the Schleswig-Holstein coat of arms was shown has been.

Refuge in Hamburg and Würzburg

Würzburg, Maulhardgasse 2 / corner Katharinengasse / Kaufhof entrance: memorial plaque to Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz, who wrote the lyrics to the Schleswig-Holstein-Lied.

After the battle of Idstedt on July 25, 1850 , Chemnitz fled to Hamburg, became editor of the Hamburger Nachrichten and worked on Schleswig-Holstein-Scandinavian topics there.

He moved from Hamburg to Würzburg . From 1851 to 1854 he was secretary of the Main Steamship Company, from 1855 to 1864 secretary of the Polytechnic Association, a cultural institute in Würzburg founded in 1806 and commissioned from 1818 with the professional training and further education of craftsmen. There he lived from 1858 to 1864 at Maulhardgasse 2.

Return to Uetersen, Altona

Chemnitz in Altona

After the German-Danish War , Chemnitz returned to Schleswig-Holstein in 1864. First he was district bailiff in Uetersen and after the German War of 1866 from 1867 district judge in the now Prussian Altona. He lived there until his death at the age of less than 54 on March 15, 1870 in Wilhelmstrasse. The house was destroyed in 1943 and replaced by a new building after the war; Wilhelmstrasse was renamed Chemnitzstrasse in 1951. Chemnitz's grave at the Norderreihe cemetery has been preserved. In Barmstedt, too, the street where he was born was renamed Chemnitzstraße.

pronunciation

The Chemnitz family attached great importance to the fact that their name was pronounced true to the sound (i.e. not Kemnitz and not Schemnitz ), although the name Kemnitz was originally written and probably also spoken that way.

Memorials

  • Chemnitz-Bellmann monument (1896) on the Schützenkoppel in Schleswig (at the point where the song was first sung) by Paul Peterich
  • Chemnitz monument in Uetersen from 1908 in Seminarstrasse, opposite the Ludwig Meyn School
  • The street where he was born in Barmstedt was renamed Chemnitzstraße. Permanent exhibition in the Humburg House in Chemnitzstrasse, opposite the house where he was born.
  • Chemnitz monument in Barmstedt
  • Memorial plaque in Würzburg, Maulhardgasse 2 / corner Katharinengasse / entrance Kaufhof.
  • Commemorative plaque from 1936 of the association “Up ewig ungedeelt v. 1895 ”(“ The poet of the Schleswig-Holstein song lived here from 1867 to 1870 ”) at Chemnitzstrasse 75 in Hamburg-Altona.
  • Chemnitz tombstone in the former Norderzeile cemetery , today Wohlers Park, in Hamburg-Altona, near the Johanniskirche. In the immediate vicinity are the graves for the German federal troops 1864–1866 and Militair Gravsted for the tidligere garrison in Altona.
  • Chemnitz-Bellmann-Brunnen (1909) by Hermann Hausmann (1865–1907) and Otto Stichling (1866–1912) on the retaining wall of the Rainvilleterrasse in Hamburg-Ottensen
  • Commemorative plaque in the stairwell of Stadtweg 51 in Schleswig (was formerly outside the house): "In this house MFChemnitz composed the Schleswig-Holstein song in 1844. Donated by the Schleswig Choir in 1899."

literature

  • Mainfränkische Zeitung (Würzburg) of November 11, 1938: memorial plaque for a fatherland singer .
  • Hans Dössel: Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz - draft of a life picture , Verlag Johannes Prange, Barmstedt 1965
  • Gerd Stolz: Schleswig-Holstein, embraced by the sea ... 150 years of the Schleswig-Holstein song . Provincial Insurance, Kiel 1994.

Web links

Commons : Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1226.
  2. ↑ museen-sh.de , flickr.com
personal data
SURNAME Chemnitz, Matthäus Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German song poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1870
Place of death Altona