Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller

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Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller (born January 21, 1805 in Hamburg; † October 10, 1876 ​​there ) was a lawyer as well as a senator and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

family

Stele for Elisabeth and Martin Joseph Haller , Martin Haller family grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

During the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm , the Great Elector (1640–1688), the Jewish Haller family moved from Vienna , first to Halle an der Saale , and later to Hamburg. In 1814, the guardian Jew Mendel Joseph Haller in Altona , who was married to Elisabeth Gottschalk from Hanover , was reported by his community elders for not having his son Nicolaus Ferdinand circumcised.Shortly afterwards he had himself and the family baptized Christian and took the name Martin Joseph Haller . In later years Martin Joseph Haller became a judge and was the founder of a bank and goods store in Hamburg. From which the Haller, Söhle & Co. bank developed in 1797 .

Nicolaus Ferdinand's aunt, Amalie Gottschalk was married to Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz , the founder of the Stieglitz & Co. banking house in St. Petersburg.

Nicolaus Ferdinand's older sister Auguste married Johann Christian Söhle (1801–1871) who had been a partner in the bank since 1830.

Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller was married to Phillipine Adele Oppenheimer (1807–1873), a sister of Georg Friedrich Ludwig Oppenheimer . Phillipine Adele Oppenheimer was born as the daughter of the Hamburg businessman and partner in the banking house Heckscher & Co. Jacob Amschel Oppenheimer (1778–1845) and his wife Esther, nee. Heckscher, an aunt of Johann Gustav Heckscher , was born. Of Phillipine Adele's sisters, Anna Emilie (1803–1885) married Johann Christoph Fehling; they became the parents of future mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling of Lübeck , Henriette Wilhelmine married the lawyer and later Hamburg senator Johann Arning (1786–1862).

His son, Martin Emil Ferdinand Haller , was a well-known Hamburg builder and architect who was involved in the planning of important Hamburg buildings, such as the town hall and the music hall .

Haller was a cousin of the mother of the painter Max Liebermann .

Professional background

ID card of the Hamburg citizen military 1827

After studying law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Haller first settled in Hamburg as an attorney (attorney) in 1827 , where he mainly worked in commercial law matters. On June 28, 1827, he also joined the Hamburg citizen military .

In 1844 Haller became a member of the Hamburg Senate. In this context he also took part in the deliberations on the Hamburg constitution. After the Senate reform of 1861, Haller remained a senator and was one of the defining personalities in the new Hamburg Senate alongside Kirchenpauer .

Haller was Hamburg Senator for Finance from 1860 and then several times

1st Mayor : 1863, 1864, 1866, 1867, 1870 and 1873
2nd Mayor: 1869, 1872, 1875.

In 1876 he left the Senate and died that same year.

Hallerstrasse

The Hallerstraße in Hamburg (more well-known today) named son after Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller and not to his. During the Third Reich, it was renamed Ostmarkstraße (1936), as was the subway station belonging to it , as Haller was of Jewish descent. In 1945 both were given their original names again.

Hallerstrasse forms the border between the districts of Rotherbaum and Harvestehude .

literature

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  1. ^ Gaby Zürn: The Altona Jewish Community (1611-1873). Lit Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4533-8 , p. 150.
  2. ↑ Hans Juergend Brandt:  Haller, Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 553 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Letter from Max Liebermann of March 24, 1911 to Gustav Pauli
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Nicolaus Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, Senator and Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1876
Place of death Hamburg