Peter Godeffroy (businessman)
Peter Godeffroy , also Pierre Godeffroy (born June 4, 1749 in Hamburg ; † May 13, 1822 ibid) was a German merchant from Hamburg.
Life
Peter Godeffroy , son of Cesar Godeffroy (1706–1758) and Catharina Susanne, née Arnal (1717–1753), was born into a Huguenot family as the fourth son of seven children . The parents immigrated to Hamburg, where the father ran a wine trade in the last years of his life. In 1742 his older brother Jean Cesar was the founder of the company "JC Godeffroy & Co", and in 1755 his sister Marguerite (1755–1804) was born. After his mother's death in 1753, Cesar married Cathérine Gautier (1718–1776) a year later and died in 1758 when Peter was four years old. In 1780 his sister married Peter Texier . He was the founder of the company "Peter Godeffroy Sons & Comp" (1799–1813).
Like his father and brother, he became a businessman and was one of the most respected Hamburg merchants. He lived on Jungfernstieg .
When Hamburg was taken back, the family of his son-in-law Richard Parish went back to England.
progeny
His marriage to Catharina Thornton on May 27, 1777 resulted in 10 children, 8 of whom survived the death of their mother on April 20, 1800:
- Emilie Catherine, b. May 9, 1778
- Peter (Pierre) (January 1, 1782–1835) oo August 28, 1812 Susette von Oertzen - Roggow (1793–1826)
- Jean (Jacques), b. August 21, 1784
- Susette, b. September 8, 1785 oo September 5, 1804 Richard Parish (1776–1860), son of the Hamburg merchant John Parish
- Karl (Charles), b. June 14, 1787
- Friederike (Frederique), b. 4th July 1789
- Charlotte, b. April 13, 1791
- Richard, b. September 3, 1798
Country house P. Godeffroy
Like his brother, the country house JC Godeffroy in Dockenhuden from 1789 , he had a modern summer house built by the royal Danish architect Christian Frederik Hansen on the property acquired by the heirs of the Counselor C. Matthiessen's heirs a little further west of the Mühlenberger Valley , the White House on the Elbchaussee 547. Hansen furnished the house with plaster casts of ancient statues, busts, vases and bas-reliefs. The furnishings came from a collection acquired in Rome for the Prussian court in Berlin , with which the transport ship was shipwrecked on the Elbe. Peter Godeffroy created an English landscape garden here . He and his brother had recently inherited a rich inheritance. The villa was taken over by the tanker shipping company John T. Essberger in the 1930s , and later by his daughter Liselotte von Rantzau-Essberger .
literature
- Peter Godeffroy, George Parish: Letters from 1813 and 1814, communicated by Hans Nirrnheim , Journal of the Association for Hamburg History (ZHG) 1914, p. 115 ( online )
- A. Leesenberg-Penzlin: Genealogy of the Godeffroy family in Hamburg . In: Herold Association in Berlin (ed.): The German Herold . Magazine for coat of arms, seal and Family studies. tape X , 1882, ZDB -ID 2752233-7 , p. 270–283, 277 ( digitized version - probably the first printed list for genealogy).
Web links
- Nienstedten citizens' association
- Svante Domizlaff: The Secret of the White House . The world . February 11, 2001. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godeffroy, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Godeffroy, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1822 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |