Rudolf Amsinck

Rudolf Amsinck, painting by David Kindt (1604)

Amsinck's wife Isabeau de Hertoghe, painting by David Kindt (1604)

Rudolf Amsinck (born November 9, 1577 in Hamburg ; † December 1, 1636 there ) was a German merchant and a Hamburg councilor .

Life

The son of Willem Amsinck , a cloth merchant who immigrated from the Spanish Netherlands , took over the father 's business together with his brother Arnold after his father's death in 1618 . Maritime insurance business and a wire mill for the manufacture of copper and brass wire, which developed into a lucrative export business and remained in the possession of the Amsincks for around 200 years , were added to the cloth trade .

Like his father, Rudolf Amsinck was a Jurat at St. Petri and was elected one of the first two “bank citizens” when the Hamburger Bank was founded in 1619. In the same year he was elected to the council , where he held various civil and military offices over the years: In the Thirty Years' War , which had just broken out , he was initially head of the fortress artillery as "artillery lord" (a bastion of the newly built Hamburgers was built in his honor Wall systems baptized with the name "Rudolfus") and as "Colonellherr" head of the vigilante group in the parish of St. Jacobi , from 1626 in St. Katharinen . In 1623 he was also first court lord ( praetor ), 1625 deputy of the council on the board of directors of the factory and penitentiary , 1625 building yard lord , 1628 deputy in the council of war and 1633 “banker” (head of the bank deputation).

Between 1625 and 1635, Amsinck also took on several embassies, including in the Netherlands, at the Hanseatic League in Lübeck in 1627 and with the Danish King in 1634.

Amsinck was married to Isebeau (Isabella) de Hertoghe (* 1583 in Antwerp , † 1662 in Hamburg), who came from a very wealthy Dutch immigrant family , since 1601 . The marriage resulted in 14 children. The family had lived in a house on Rödingsmarkt since 1628 , and Amsinck also owned several farms in Curslack and Billwerder . In 1624, together with his brother Arnold, he acquired extensive land on what was then the island of Strand , which, however, was largely lost again in the Burchardi flood in 1634. Today only the name of the Hamburg Hallig still reminds of the owners of the former "Amsinck- Koog ".

literature

• Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Amsinck, Rudolf . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 21-22 .
• Cesar Amsinck: The Amsinck family from the Netherlands and Hamburg. An attempt at a family history. Vol. 1, Hamburg 1886. Digitized

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