Michael Jebsen senior

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Michael Jebsen (born September 27, 1835 in Aabenraa , † September 30, 1899 in Berlin ) was a German captain and shipowner , senator , member of the Reichstag and member of the Prussian state parliament and chairman of the Knivsberg Society .

life and work

After his confirmation, Michael Jebsen, son of a captain of the same name from Aabenraa, was for a short time in a sailmaker's apprenticeship . However, he was determined to go to sea. Therefore, at the age of 16, in 1851 he was hired as a cabin boy on the Hamburg full ship "Georg Heinrich", which was under the command of Captain Closter from Loit. After several voyages and a. In the spring of 1853 he returned to South America as a young man in London and returned home. In the following months he attended the navigation school in Loit-Schauby, which the former captain Peter Boysen maintained there, and passed his exam in July of that year with the grade "comfortable". After a short time as a seaman, Jebsen hired the third helmsman on the Apenrader barque “Otto” in 1854 . In 1856, when he was only 21 years old, he got his first command as captain on the Peruvian barque "Joven Emilio", which he led for two years. From 1859 to 1860 he was first officer on the steamship "Antonius Varas". After a short wage as captain of a ship in Valparaíso / Chile, he traveled to Hamburg to work as a captain for various Hamburg sailing ship companies. In 1867 he married the captain's daughter Clara Anna Offersen during a home leave, who accompanied him on the following voyages, which he undertook as skipper and owner of the barques “Ceyphrus” and “Galathea”. In the second half of 1870 Jebsen, his wife and the crew of the Galathea had to take a forced break in Port Townsend (USA) because of the Franco-German War . Son Jacob was born there on December 27, 1870 . In early 1871 the ship sailed to Valparaíso and from there back to Hamburg ; then the young family stayed in Aabenraa until 1873 . From spring to autumn 1873 Michael Jebsen was the captain of the Hamburg steamer "Luxor"; then he dismissed at the age of 38. This was his last voyage as captain.

In 1874 Michael Jebsen got a job as head of the shipping and forwarding company of the industrial tycoon Alfred Krupp , first in Vlissingen , then in Rotterdam . At the same time he founded his own steamship company in 1878, which owned no fewer than 14 steamers in 1897, the areas of operation of which were mainly in East Asia . In addition to his business ventures, Jebsen was also politically active. In 1883 he was elected senator in Aabenraa. From 1890 to 1898 he sat for the National Liberal Party in the German Reichstag . In 1898 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives (XIXth legislative period).

Michael Jebsen's commitment to the purchase and construction of the meeting place for the German part of the population on the Knivsberg was of particular importance for the German minority in North Schleswig . Jebsen was one of the founders of the Knivsberg Society, founded in 1893, and was its first chairman. He was particularly committed to building the Bismarck Tower , the cornerstone of which was laid in 1895. Michael Jebsen did not live to see its inauguration in 1901: he died in Berlin in 1899 at the age of 64. His son Jacob Jebsen became chairman of the Knivsberggesellschaft in 1899 and his successor in the shipping company.

literature

  • Jebsen, Michael . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, Volume 9, p. 887.
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 4, 1900, Reimer, Berlin.
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917
  • Emma von Hassel: Michael Jebsen. The life of the ship owner Michael Jebsen and the chronicle of his ancestors. Self-published, Aabenraa 1953.
  • Adolf von Hänisch: Jebsen & Co. Hong Kong - China trade through the ages 1895–1945. Self-published, Aabenraa 1970.
  • Harboe Kardel : Knivsbergfeste-Knivsbergspiele. 1971.
  • Ernst Hieke:  Jebsen, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 383 ( digitized version ).
  • Nis-Edwin List-Petersen : Jugendhof Knivsberg. Educational facility of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, 1982.
  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, Volume 3).
  • Ole Mørkegaard: Søen, slægten og hjemstavnen. En undersøgelse af livsformer på Åbenråegnen 1700–1900. Etnologisk forum. Udgivet i samarbejde med Aabenraa Museum. Tusculanums Forlag Museum. Københavns University 1993 ( online )
  • 100 years of the Knivsberg Festival . Special supplement. In: Der Nordschleswiger - The German daily newspaper in Denmark , 49th volume, No. 133 from June 11, 1994.
  • Jürgen Ostwald (ed.): The Knivsberg. 100 years of the German meeting place in North Schleswig Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co, Heide, 1994.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1997.
  • Bert Becker: Michael Jebsen 1835-1899. Shipowners and politicians . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 1st edition 2013, ISBN 978-3869351742 (856 pages).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 108.
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 200 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne : Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 463-466.
personal data
SURNAME Jebsen, Michael sen.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jebsen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and shipowner, senator and politician (NLP), MdR and member of the Prussian state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Aabenraa
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1899
Place of death Berlin