Vollrath Zingelmann

Vollrath Johann Jacob Zingelmann (born August 19, 1808 in Teterow , † February 7, 1866 in New York City ) was a German carpenter and politician.

Life

Vollrath Zingelmann was the son of the baker Michael Zingelmann. After his apprenticeship as a carpenter and a stay in Copenhagen in 1829 , he became a citizen of Teterow as a carpenter in 1830. Here he is proven in 1831 as the landowner of a larger property. He was the senior man of the carpenter in Teterow, long-time mayor in Teterow and played a key role in the awarding of honorary citizenship to Johann Heinrich von Thünen by the city of Teterow in 1848. Zingelmann was a member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives for the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 73. He was surprised in November 1850 by Gottfried Kinkel with his escape helpers Carl Schurz and Karl Petermann on his spectacular escape from the Spandau Citadel to England and equipped them with a new team for the another trip to the port of Rostock .

In 1851 he sold his property in Teterow, where it was last recorded in 1854, and in the mid-1850s he emigrated to America, where he worked as an architect in New York and died in 1866.

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 11205 .

Web links

• Literature about Vollrath Zingelmann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto-A. Peters ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.