Mutzenbecher (Hamburg)
Mutzenbecher is the name of a Hanseatic family from which one line was raised to the baron rank.
history
The lineage begins with Lorenz Mutzenbecher, who became a citizen of Kiel in 1640 . His son Matthias Mutzenbecher (1653–1735) moved to Hamburg in 1669 and became a senator there in 1710 (see Matthias Mutzenbecher's biography ). His nephew Johann Baptista Mutzenbecher (1691–1759) became Senate Syndicate of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg in 1723 , but gave up this office in 1725 after marrying the wealthy Hanseatic daughter Christiane Moller vom Baum . In 1727 he acquired the Horst estate with Rensdorf and Gehrum (today part of Boizenburg / Elbe ) in Mecklenburg, was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood and in 1755 was one of the signatories of theLand constitutional inheritance comparison .
A branch derived from the Hamburg merchant Johann Hinrich Mutzenbecher (1700–1757) gained importance in the Duchy of Oldenburg , later the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. His youngest son Esdras Heinrich Mutzenbecher (1744–1801) became general superintendent in Oldenburg, his son Friedrich Mutzenbecher (1781–1855) Grand Ducal Oldenburg Privy Councilor and President of the Government College. His sons were August Mutzenbecher (1826–1897), Grand Ducal Oldenburg State Councilor, Wilhelm Mutzenbecher (1832–1878), Grand Ducal Oldenburg Privy Councilor, Minister of Justice and Culture as well as the Federal Councilor and Adolf Mutzenbecher (1834–1896), Grand Ducal State Councilor and Privy Councilor of Oldenburg District President in Eutin .
Johannes Eduard Mutzenbecher (1822–1903) became wealthy with the guano trade and became a Prussian baron with a diploma on January 18, 1875. He returned his Hamburg citizen letter (cf. “ Hanseatic Nobles ”) and ended his life as a squire on Miekenhagen in Mecklenburg. His son Johannes Freiherr von Mutzenbecher (* 1854) was the extraordinary envoy and authorized minister, another son Kurt von Mutzenbecher became director of the court theater in Wiesbaden .
Hermann Franz Matthias Mutzenbecher (1855–1932) was the founder and director of the " Albingia Insurance Company " and the " Hamburg-Mannheimer " Insurance Company. In 1900 he had a brick building - today's Villa Mutzenbecher - built in the Niendorfer Gehege as a private retreat.
Adela Mutzenbecher (1885–1978) married the first lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Hamburg" Egmont Baron Ardenne and became the mother of the researcher Manfred von Ardenne .
Possessions
- Horst with Rensdorf and Gehrum 1727–1818
- Miekenhagen 1873-1903
- Klein Flottbek, Villa de Freitas until 1903
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a branch placed diagonally to the right, which drives a leaf upwards and two roses downwards.
The baronial coat of arms: In silver, a crumpled, brown trunk lying obliquely to the right, from which three green leaves sprout at the top and two five-petaled red roses with golden clusters at the bottom.
literature
- Johanna-Luise Brockmann: Esdras Heinrich Mutzenbecher (1744-1801) , Oldenburg 1959.
- German Gender Book , Volume 19, Second Hamburg Volume, "Mutzenbecher" series, p. 256.
- EHWMutzenbecher: Contributions to the history of the Mutzenbecher family , Wildeshausen 1911.
- Geert-Ulrich Mutzenbecher: The Mutzenbechers: Novel of a Hanseatic family from 1619 to today , 2000, ISBN 380421116X .
- Geert-Ulrich Mutzenbecher: The insurers: History of a Hamburg merchant family , 1993, ISBN 3804206387 .
- H. Mutzenbecher: Cécilie Mutzenbecher and Hans von Bülow , Hamburg 1963.
- Heinrich Mutzenbecher: Family tree of the Mutzenbecher family 1636-1971 , Witzhave 1973.
- Hans Joachim Schröder : Hermann Franz Matthias Mutzenbecher: A Hamburg insurance company , ISBN 3937816526 , Hamburg 2008.
- Materials relating to Johann Baptista Mutzenbecher: 1691 - 1759 , 1913.
- Materials relating to the golden wedding of Senator Matthias Mutzenbecher 1732 , Hamburg 1914.
- In memory of Mrs. Magdalena Mutzenbecher, geb. von Ohlendorff o.O. 1897.