Wilhelm Amsinck (politician)

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Wilhelm Amsinck
The Amsink stone in Finkenwerder is reminiscent of the former “landlord”.
Collective grave plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery

Wilhelm Amsinck (born January 5, 1752 in Hamburg ; † June 21, 1831 there ) was a German politician, Hamburg senator and mayor .

Life

The son of businessman and combing councilor Paul Amsinck (1714-1777) visited the Johanneum and the Academic High School in Hamburg and studied from 1771 to 1774 in Leipzig and Göttingen, where he became licentiate received his doctorate of rights. He then went on an educational trip , was elected judge at the lower court in 1795 and then settled as a lawyer.

On January 17, 1786, he was elected to the Hamburg Council and initially worked primarily in the diplomatic field: He represented his hometown at the Rastatt Congress , which advised on the consequences of the cession of the left bank of the Rhine to France. From 1800 to 1802 Amsinck was the landlord for Bill- and Ochsenwerder and wrote a detailed report about this time, which gives a detailed insight into the living conditions in the Hamburg rural area at that time and is considered an important historical source. Amsinck was also involved in the acquisition of the Elbe islands of Peute and Müggenburg (now part of Finkenwerder ), as a memorial stone on the Finkenwerder Elbe dike commemorates.

On October 23, 1802 Amsinck was elected mayor . During his term of office the negotiations about the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the imposition of the continental blockade in 1806, which seriously damaged the commercial interests of Hamburg, and the French occupation of Hamburg in the same year. When the city was finally incorporated into the newly formed department of the Elbe estuary by Napoleon in 1811 , Amsinck turned down the offer to head a new French city government and withdrew into private life. New Maire was meanwhile Amandus Augustus Abendroth , the Amsinck should follow after his death again as mayor.

After the liberation of Hamburg in 1814, Amsinck returned to office and in the following years campaigned for high reparation claims against France, he also advocated a policy of foreign policy neutrality (demolition of the city's fortifications ) and independence for Hamburg. He was skeptical of domestic political reforms.

Amsinck was honored for his services to the establishment of the Botanical Garden in 1831 by naming a predatory leaf plant called Amsinckia .

Wilhelm Amsinck was buried in a cemetery in Hamburg that no longer exists today. Later his bones were transferred to the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery , a special facility within the Ohlsdorf cemetery (collective grave for the mayor ).

family

In 1785 he married Elisabeth Schuback (* October 28, 1764; † March 13, 1794), the only daughter of the businessman Johannes Schuback . The couple had six children, including the later Senate Syndic Wilhelm Amsinck (1793–1874, married to Maria von Schwartz (1805–1877)).

Fonts

  • Records of the Senator and Landlord Lict. Wilhelm Amsinck on his administration of the land lordship of Bill and Ochsenwärder 1800–1801 , ed. by Johann Friedrich Voigt , Hamburg 1911. ( digitized version )
  • Materials for the Correct Assessment of the Most Essential Legal Relationships between Hamburg and France (1815)
  • Rejection of certain blasphemous judgments concerning the Commerz tract between France and Hamburg (1803)
  • A free German man's bold reflections on martial rules for the inhibition of trade and their pernicious consequences (1801)
  • De Impugnatione Resignationis Ex Iure Hamburgensi Dissertatio Inauguralis . Dissertation, Göttingen 1774. ( digitized version )

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Hamburg. 1st edition. Alabasta Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938778-10-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Amsinck, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Hamburg senator and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1831
Place of death Hamburg