Theodor Timmermann

Theodor Timmermann (born August 11, 1627 in Hochemmerich ; † January 13, 1700 in Magdeburg ) was a pharmacist , mayor of Mannheim and mayor of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg.

Palatinate pharmacy

Life

Theodor Timmermann came from a pastor family. His father was born in Bremen and was a preacher in Hochemmerich, today a district of Duisburg , where Theodor Timmermann was born. Nothing is known about his youth and his apprenticeship as a pharmacist. Timmermann was married to the Huguenot Coqui (* around 1630, † around 1663), his second marriage to Elisabeth De Racher (* around 1640), who was also a Huguenot. At least four children are known from Timmermann's second marriage. Timmermann first found the focus of his life in Mannheim and, after its destruction, in the Palatinate colony in Magdeburg.

Public activity

Timmermann appeared publicly as a pharmacist and councilor in Mannheim as early as 1662. He later became mayor of this very young city. Religious refugees from northern France and Flanders had settled in Mannheim, which had been reformed since 1561, very early on.

During his time as Mayor of Mannheim, as part of the War of the Palatinate Succession , the French siege and conquest of the city in spring 1689. When the French occupiers began to systematically destroy the city, the population moved under the leadership of the French Reformed preacher Salomon Péricard , via Hanau and Frankfurt am Main to Magdeburg. Mayor Timmermann initially stayed in nearby Heidelberg with part of the city council . From here he tried to get help for the reconstruction of his city Mannheim through petitions and petitions to the emperor and German princes. When war and destruction reached Heidelberg in 1693, Timmermann moved to Magdeburg to the Mannheim citizens.

As early as 1689, Elector Friedrich III. von Brandenburg founded the Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg for the new citizens coming from Mannheim , which he endowed with numerous privileges (including its own administration, civil guard and jurisdiction). The colony was under his personal protection. Timmermann was soon after his arrival in Magdeburg in 1694 by Elector Friedrich III. appointed " Consul honorarius " and received permission, as in Mannheim, to set up a pharmacy. The elector also helped him with the procurement of the property at Alter Markt 13, “Zur Königsburg”. There Timmermann's “fish pharmacy” found its place. It later fell to Timmermann's son-in-law Georg Sandrart , after his son Theodor (* November 23, 1664, † around 1705), and then to his son-in-law Erhardt Christian Dohlhoff (* around 1694 in Harzgerode, † October 26, 1765 in Magdeburg) and finally to Georg Philipp Dohlhoff , who ran it at the same location until 1794.

In 1695 Theodor Timmermann became mayor of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg and remained so until his death in 1700. This period also marked the beginning of the laborious convergence of three intertwined, but independent communities: the Reformed Palatinate Colony, the Huguenot French Colony and the Lutheran old town of Magdeburg. Only with the dissolution of the two colonies by Jérôme Bonaparte in 1808 did the city of Magdeburg become a unit again. Until then, however, Theodor Timmermann followed in the office of mayor of the Palatinate Colony, apart from his son-in-law Georg Sandrart , his brother Peter Sandrart and 2 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren of Timmermann; for the latter are the names Johann Georg Sandrart (* around 1690, † 1763 in Magdeburg), Johann Philipp Riquet (* around 1734), Georg Philipp Dohlhoff and Georg Philipp Sandrart (* around 1738, † after 1788). The Schwartz family , who are related to Timmermanns, also provided 4 mayors of the colony in the course of history.

literature

• Johannes Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 1939
• Henri Tollin: History of the French Colony of Magdeburg, Halle 1886
• Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries , de Gruyter , Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016560-0
• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Volume B VI, page 311, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1964

Web links

• War of the Palatinate Succession on landesgeschichte-online