Max Theodor Hayn

Max Theodor Hayn (born September 12, 1809 in Breslau ; † June 21, 1888 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and Senator from Hamburg, who also served as the city's second mayor in 1887 .

87 cm high bust of Senator Hayn - carved by Aloys Denoth in 1888 - in the orphanage of Hamburg's town hall

Life

Hayn did a commercial apprenticeship and came to Hamburg in 1833. He soon became a partner of Robert Kayser and a partner in the trading company Kayser, Hayn & Co. and worked for them very successfully in Mazatlán for the next 10 years . He also worked as a Prussian consul in Mexico. Kayser, Hayn & Co. was liquidated in 1843 and the company Kunhardt, Kayser & Hayn was founded in Valparaíso . Having become wealthy, he returned to Hamburg and in 1844 was granted upper citizenship in Hamburg . Hayn continued to work commercially in Hamburg, for example in the company Kunhardt, Kayser & Hayn, which was founded in Hamburg in 1846 , from which Hayn left in 1854. In 1849 Kunhardt, Kayser & Hayn in Valparaíso was dissolved. Hayn was also involved in the Hamburg local government. Due to this commitment, Hayn was co-opted to the Hamburg Rath on March 16, 1857 as the successor to the deceased Johann Martin Jenisch . Hayn, whose attitude was considered liberal, advocated the reform of the council to the Senate , which took place in 1860-61 and was an essential pillar of the Senate in the following years . He held comparatively important offices for a commercial senator: for some time he headed the building deputation, worked as president of the finance deputation during the frequent absence of Octavio Schroeder due to illness . In addition, he served for a long time as chairman of the military commission and in this connection often had with the commander of the IX. Army Corps to do. He also maintained an unusually close relationship with the Prussian ambassador in Hamburg Emil von Richthofen at the time . In the last years of his term of office, Hayn worked primarily in the orphanage administration before he was elected 2nd mayor within the Senate after the death of Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer . Hayn held this office from March 14th to December 31st, 1887. It was extremely unusual and a great honor that he achieved this office as the longest-serving commercial senator. The extraordinary situation arose above all from the fact that Kirchenpauer and Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber had just passed away, Carl Friedrich Petersen was not allowed to take over an office because he had just been in office for 2 years and Johannes Versmann had become First Mayor . The remaining legal senators were either too inexperienced or unavailable in their offices.

Senator Hayn was the patron of the Hamburg orphanages. This is why the figure carved from a single block of oak by Aloys Denoth in memory of the deceased Hayn in 1888 is in the so-called orphanage of the Hamburg town hall .

Others

As a born Prussian in Hamburg, Hayn was considered an outsider for a long time, as contrary to custom, he married a woman from Breslau in 1846. It took great effort for him and his wife to gain access to the leading social circles and to establish themselves there in the first place. With his wealth of resources, Hayn was able to build a house and thereby represented the Senate in the most dignified manner. Every senior official, judge, officer who visited him was sure to be invited (...)

literature

• Hakim Raffat: Eppendorf and its parks. 2004

Web links

Commons : Max Theodor Hayn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estate database of the Federal Archives , accessed on May 29, 2013
2. ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950, p. 35, Hamburg 1984
3. ↑ Raffat, Hakim: Eppendorf and his parks, p. 100
4. ^ Susanne von Bargen / Michael Zapf "The Hamburg City Hall", Hamburg 2012, pp. 80/81
5. ↑ Raffat, Hakim: Eppendorf and his parks, p. 97
6. ^ Hauschild-Thiessen, Renate: Mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923356-26-9 , p. 81