Wilhelm Eberhard Capelle

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Wilhelm Eberhard Capelle (born March 4, 1785 in Detmold ; † August 28, 1822 in Hanover ) was a German merchant and court materialist.

Life

Capelle married Maria Magdalene Burckhardt from Celle during the " French era " in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . The couple had four children, including Marie Emilie Capelle (born August 17, 1817 in Hanover), the later married Emilie Wüstenfeld , the elder of two sisters.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Wilhelm Eberhard Capelle ran a spice and material goods store in Schmiedestrasse 31 . The Royal British-Hanoverian State Calendar for 1821 recorded Capelle in the list of “court shopkeepers and the like” as a court materialist.

In the following year, 1822, Capelle died and was buried in the garden cemetery.

The widow Capelle continued to run the court materialist's company together with a managing director, including her daughters in all household affairs. As mid February 1843 Prince George of Hanover , the Crown Princess Marie of Altenburg in of the reorganized residence of married the Kingdom of Hanover, had the thriving company to the festivities "the house of Hofmaterialisten Wilh. Eberh. Capelle ”in Schmiedestraße 31 had a special reception frame built as a gate of honor in front of its facade and adorned with over 700 colored lanterns, which displayed numerous allegorical attributes in addition to the name“ G M ”.

Tomb in the garden cemetery

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The monument-protected tomb in the garden cemetery, carved from a block of sandstone , bears the inscriptions:

“Here lies the mortal shell of the Weiland merchant
and court materialist in Hanover Wilhelm Eberhard Capelle.
He was born on March 4th 1785 married
Maria Magdalene geb. Burckhardt on November 6th, 1812 and died
on August 28th, 1822 deeply mourned by his
widow and children. Seed sown by God on the day of
the sheaves to ripen, We will meet again.

Good to you! Rest in peace! You have lived
your run down below
, dear fellow.
Good to you! Ancestor quietly
What in silent circles
you wrought and done.
But we, yours,
stand at the grave and weep:
That the good parted so early!
You, so loving and sociable
you, pleasing to word and deed, are
now withered in the coffin!
We parted tearfully from within
But we often come and think
Oh! a happy reunion! "

Web links

  • H.-G. Vogt: Photo of the gravestone with a copy of the inscription after Hesse

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hinrich Hesse : The grave inscriptions of the garden church courtyard in Hanover . In: Journal of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony . Vol. 44 (1939), pp. 235-290
  2. ↑ a b Inge Grolle : The free-thinking women. Charlotte Paulsen, Johanna Goldschmidt, Emilie Wüstenfeld (= Hamburgische Lebensbilder , Vol. 16), Bremen: Edition Temmen; Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History, 2000, ISBN 978-3-86108-770-0 and ISBN 3-86108-770-7 (Ed.Temmen) as well as ISBN 978-3-923356-91-1 and ISBN 3-923356- 91-9 , p. 93; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Hannoversches Adressbuch (ABH) for the year 1821, section II: Alphabetical list of the local residents with comments on their business, the streets in which they live and the house number , p. 28; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ Royal Great Britain-Hanover State Calendar to the year 1821 , Nienburg (Weser): Berenbergsche Buchdruckerei, p. 87; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ Compare the photo by H.-G. Vogt from March 2015
  6. ↑ Michael Bergeest: Emilie Wüstenfeld (1817–1874), in ders .: Education between Commerz and Emancipation. Adult education in the Hamburg region of the 18th and 19th centuries (= international university publications ), also dissertation 1995 at the University of Bamberg, Münster; New York: Waxmann, 1995, ISBN 978-3-89325-313-5 and ISBN 3-89325-313-0 , pp. 335f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Wilhelm Schröder (edit.): The wedding ceremony of Sr. Königl. Highness of Crown Prince Georg of Hanover with the most straightforward Princess Marie of Altenburg, Duchess of Saxony. Edited from authentic sources and published with the highest approval by Sr. Majesty the King and Sr. Royal Highness of the Crown Prince , Hanover: Druck und Verlag von AL Pockwitz, 1843, p. 28; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Capelle, Wilhelm Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and royal Hanoverian court materialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1822
Place of death Hanover