Piter Poel

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Piter Poel (baptized name probably Peter, also Pieter Poel ; born June 17, 1760 in Arkhangelsk , † October 3, 1837 in Altona ) was a diplomat and editor of the Altona Mercury . He was the godchild of Grand Duke Peter, later Tsar Peter III.

Life

Poel came from a Dutch merchant family ( Jacobus Poel and Magdalena née von Brienen) who moved from Arkhangelsk to Hamburg in 1762 . His mother died shortly after arrival and Piter grew up between the ages of 3 and 6, together with his sister Magdalena, who was 3 years older , in a French boarding school for girls and then received private lessons.

From 1776 to 1778 he did a commercial apprenticeship in Bordeaux at the request of his father and then went to Geneva until 1780 . From 1780 to 1783 he studied law , political science and history at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen he became a member of the influential ZN student order in 1781 and had to temporarily leave the university in the same year because of a duel . After completing his studies, Poel was employed from 1783 to 1784 in the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in Saint Petersburg as a captain's secretary . He had influential relationships through his maternal uncle, Abraham van Brienen.

Poel then asked for a leave of absence from work and left Russia. From 1784 to 1785 he stayed in Stockholm to get a job in the Swedish service. Despite the advocacy of influential relatives, however, he did not get a job because his Reformed denomination was considered a hindrance in strictly Lutheran Sweden.

Poel first returned to Hamburg and became a close friend of Caspar Voght , with whom he traveled to Paris and London in the spring of 1786 . Voght gave him access to the circle around the businessman Georg Heinrich Sieveking and the doctor Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus . It was there that Poel met his wife Friederike Elisabeth Büsch , a daughter of the scholar Johann Georg Büsch , whom he married in 1787. Also thanks to Voght's mediation, Poel obtained a royal privilege to publish the Altonaischer Mercurius , the most important German-language newspaper in the north of the time, as well as the state calendar . In Altona Poel owned a town house in the Große Freiheit "between de Valory and the Brethren" from 1789 and later lived in the summer on the Neumühlen country estate , which he had acquired in November 1793 together with Sieveking and Conrad Johann Matthiessen (1751-1822) and which developed into a meeting place for the educated, cosmopolitan bourgeois elite, known far beyond Hamburg. After Sieveking's death in 1799, Poel moved to the center of this “Neumühlen Circle” and was considered the soul of the circle. After the country estate had to be sold in 1811 for economic reasons (consequences of the continental barrier imposed by Napoleon ), Poel first spent the summers in Teufelsbrück and from 1816 to 1822 in Flottbek with Caspar Voght .

Poel's business and private relationships extended almost across Europe. He was a supporter of the French Revolution , but later disappointed in Napoleon's policies. Among other things, he appeared as an advisor to his cousin Claes Bartholomeus Peyron , Swedish Minister-Resident at the Lower Saxony District in Hamburg since 1792 , and was dispatched to negotiations with the Crown Prince of Sweden, Marshal Bernadotte , during the wars of liberation by the Altona President Conrad Daniel von Blücher . Poel was involved as secretary of the Altona Association to support French emigrants and published various political publications and magazines. After the end of the French era , he was committed to reforming the poor system and establishing savings banks .

Piter Poel died in Altona on October 3, 1837 (death register of the Reformed Church in Altona: age 77 years 3 months 15 days) and was buried in the hereditary funeral in the north cemetery in Altona on October 6, 1837. Piter and Friederike Poel had eleven children. His son Ernst took over the publication of the Altonaer Mercur .

Honors

The Poelsweg in the Hamburg district of Hamm has been named after Piter Poel since 1929 .

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  • Hamburg citizens in the spring of 1813 , in: In Ferdinand Stiller's Schleswig-Holstein non-profit Allmanach, to the year 1815 , Altona 1815
  • Via savings banks (1819)
  • Memories of an old man. In: Altonaer Mercurius 1835–37.
  • Pictures from bygone times, according to information from largely unprinted family papers . [Ed. and introduced by Gustav Poel ],
    • Part 1. Pictures from Piter Poels and his friends' lives. 1760-1787 . Hamburg 1884, ( digitized version )

literature

  • W. Sillem:  Poel, Piter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 87-95.
  • Alfred Aust: I had a fine lot. Love and friendship in the life of Baron Caspar von Voght . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1972.
  • Susanne Woelk: The stranger among friends. Biographical studies on Caspar von Vogth. Weidmann, Hamburg 2000.
  • Hans-Werner Engels: Poel, Piter . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 299-300 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN Order , in: Einst und Jetzt . 1974 yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, pp. 30–54 (No. 117).
  2. ↑ cf. P. Poel's correspondence with the Swedish Chancellery President Graf Creutz and Graf Oxenstierna in: 1) Uppsala University, (F 491, Gustavianska saml. Quart 17 No. 121); 2) the Stockholm Imperial Archives (Kanslipres. Arkiv, letters received 1785 - 1790, P; Kanslipres. Koncepter 1786).
  3. ↑ She was born on September 23, 1768 in Hamburg and died on October 18, 1821 in Flottbek, buried in the cemetery in Nienstedten .
  4. ^ Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , Eduard Alberti , 1868, p. 211
  5. ^ [Piter Poel:] Pictures from the past, according to information from largely unprinted family papers . P. 46 footnote
personal data
SURNAME Poel, Piter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poel, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Godchild of Grand Duke Peter, later Tsar Peter III.
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkhangelsk
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1837
Place of death Altona district