Peter Hohmann

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Peter Hohmann around 1710
The Hohmannsche Haus in Katharinenstrasse around 1720

Peter Hohmann (born July 26, 1663 in Cönnern ; † January 2, 1732 in Leipzig ) was a merchant and councilor in Leipzig. When he was raised to the nobility as noble von Hohenthal , he became the progenitor of the noble family von Hohenthal .

Life

Peter Hohmann was the son of a master craftsman in Könnern. At the age of 17 he came to Leipzig as a commercial apprentice. He was a clerk in a trading house that ran goods, freight forwarding and banking. After a few years he became a partner and soon afterwards the sole owner. In 1694 he acquired the citizenship of the city of Leipzig. With his business he quickly made a great fortune. Charles VI's Imperial Army was one of his customers . that he supplied with equipment and food.

For his services as a war supplier, he was raised to the imperial nobility and imperial knighthood in Vienna in 1717 with the predicate "Edler von Hohenthal", but did not make use of it for himself. But he thus became the ancestor of the von Hohenthal family.

From 1715 he was a councilor in Leipzig and also a council builder. He had three baroque town houses built in Leipzig: one on the market, which was later called Aeckerleins Hof and whose property is now included in the “ Marktgalerie ” building complex ; one in Petersstrasse, which was still owned by the von Hohenthal family as Hohmanns Hof in 1931 and on the grounds of which the Messehof was built after its destruction in the Second World War , and finally a third in Katharinenstrasse, where the Museum of Fine Arts is today is located. Peter Hohmann also had properties outside of Leipzig. He bought numerous manors. These included those of Crostewitz , Großdeuben , Großstädteln , Hohenprießnitz , Wallendorf (Luppe) and Lichte-Wallendorf (from 1709). His descendants expanded this property considerably (e.g. Knauthain , Gut Lauer (now in the Cospudener See ), Dölkau and Püchau ) and were thus among the largest landowners in Saxony.

Peter Hohmann was married to Gertrud Sabina, née Koch. They had six sons: Peter ( royal Polish and electoral Saxon secret war council), Johann Friedrich (royal Polish and electoral Saxon higher court assessor), Christian Gottlieb, Carl Ludwig, Theodor August and Georg Wilhelm. In 1733 and 1736, respectively, in Vienna they were raised to the status of imperial barons with the salutation “well-born”. The district chief Peter von Hohenthal was one of his grandchildren.

In his will, drawn up six weeks before his death at the age of 68, Peter Hohmann donated a total of 7,000 thalers to the Almosenamt and the Willigen Almosen (a first systematic organization of secular poor relief in Leipzig).

Honor

Leipzig honored its former citizen in 1898 by naming Hohmannstrasse in the Eutritzsch district .

literature

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Web links

Commons : Peter Hohmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Helbig:  Hohmann, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 494 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Castle Archives
  3. ↑ Albert Brödel: From the Köhlerhütte to the industrial site ... according to official sources 1937–1939 (chapter The origin of the Wallendorf manor) , published by W. Brödel, Kulmbach 1997
  4. ↑ Heinrich Geffcken, Chaim Tykocinski: Foundation Book of the City of Leipzig . Leipzig 1905. pp. 243-244
personal data
SURNAME Hohmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Skills
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1732
Place of death Leipzig