Walter Beckhoff

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Walter Beckhoff (born December 9, 1648 in Hamburg ; † June 24, 1727 there ) was a German politician and from 1698 to 1727 Senator of Hamburg. In 1694 and 1695 he was President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

Life

Walter Beckhoff came as the son of the Bremen merchant Johannes Beckhoff and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Walther de Hertoghe and Maria geb. de Hasendonck, born in Hamburg. He attended a public school and was taught business skills such as arithmetic and business studies by his father. In addition to Latin, he spoke several living languages. In 1683 Beckhoff went on business to Belgium and England, two years later he traveled to French Brabant and through Germany.

Back in Hamburg, Beckhoff continued his business as a businessman. On April 20, 1686 he married Catharina Elisabeth Boeschart († July 28, 1719), daughter of the merchant Dietrich Boeschart and Agathe von Overbeke. The marriage resulted in four living children: Agathe (* 1687, married 1712 to Peter Peinhorst), Johannes Dietrich (* 1689, married 1715 to Sara Boeschart), Elisabeth (* 1690, married 1715 to Andreas Beckhoff) and Walther (* 1693 , married to Sara Elisabeth Schroder in 1716).

Beckhoff was involved in various offices in the city government of Hamburg. He was chairman of the merchants' assembly, deputy for warfare and wages, and an assessor at the lower court . He was a member and from May 1694 to July 1695 President of the Commerzdeputation (Chamber of Commerce). On April 5, 1698, he was elected to the Senate. In addition to the areas of responsibility for the military, land and shipping, he was particularly active in the Scholarchat (municipal supervisory authority for the Hamburg school system). In 1705 he led the praetur . In total, he was Hamburg Senator for almost 29 years.

On February 15, 1727 Beckhoff suffered a stroke , which he survived, but memory loss forced him to give up his job. He died a few months later at the age of 78.

The Hamburg district of Waltershof was probably named after Walter Beckhoff in 1788 . However, it is also possible that the landowner Nicolaus Berens, who grouped the two Elbwerder Rugenbergen and Griesenwerder under the name Waltershof, referred to his son Walter Johann.

literature

  • Michael Richey: The Mourning of the Fatherland: Walther Beckhof. Verlag Conrad Königs, Hamburg 1727 ( online ), translated from Latin by Christoph W. Büsch, 2007, and transcribed by Claudio Stoltz, 2008 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Richey: The grief of the fatherland: Walther Beckhof. Translation, pp. 1-2.
  2. ↑ Michael Richey: The grief of the fatherland: Walther Beckhof. Translation, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Hamburg State Archives: Weddings of Hamburg Wedde 1712, 1715, 1716
  4. ↑ The contemporary obituary by Michael Richey dates the stroke to 1723, but this is doubted because of the further description.
  5. ↑ The district series: Waltershof. In: Hamburger Abendblatt August 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Beckhoff, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and Senator from Hamburg (1698–1727)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1727
Place of death Hamburg