Wilhelm Madelung

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Wilhelm Madelung (* 1774 ; † 1855 ) was a German banker and entrepreneur in Gotha .

Life

The Madelung family came from Madelungen near Eisenach . Wilhelm Madelung grew up in Gotha as the son of the local merchant and senator Johann August Wilhelm Madelung (1749–1822) and his wife Dorothea, b. Mevius, in Gotha. His younger siblings were the later Privy Councilor and official advocate Karl Ernst August Madelung (1776–1849) and Johanna Friederike Madelung (1779–1859). The family was one of the richest in the city of Gotha and owned, among other things, the bank "Madelung & Sons" and the "Gothaische Zeitung" .

After his father's death in 1822, Wilhelm took over management of the bank. He was also the director of Gothaer Feuerversicherung, founded by Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi in 1820, and on the revision committee of the first German life insurance company founded in 1827 . He was in close contact with Duke Ernst I , to whom he presented a poem of homage when he took office in 1826 together with the insurance salesman Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi . Friedrich Christoph Perthes , whose daughter had married Madelung's son Moritz in 1831, referred to Madelung & Sons as "his bankers" in 1836 .

The now demolished Villa Madelung around 1996

From 1836 to 1837, Wilhelm Madelung had the court architect Gustav Eberhard built a spacious house, the Villa Madelung , for his family .

After the great fire in Hamburg in 1842, Madelung immediately traveled to Hamburg to personally take care of the claims settlement of the houses insured by Gothaer fire insurance. He had 250,000 thalers sent to Hamburg immediately. With a total of 1,392,580 thalers, some of which was raised by a one-off additional payment by bank members, he was able to achieve full settlement by July 27, 1842, thus making a significant contribution to the good reputation of Gothaer Versicherung. His brother, Hofrat Karl Ernst, who, together with 5 other Gotha dignitaries, also looked for help for Hamburg by appealing for donations, was awarded the Saxon-Ernestine Cross of Merit by Ernst II (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) on October 25, 1847 .

Trivia

As a student at the grammar school in Gotha, Wilhelm Madelung fell victim to a catheter bloom from the grammar school director Galletti :

"There is another restless person sitting there, but I don't want to name him, his name is Madelung with the first letter."

- Gallettiana, No. 375

Descendants

Moritz Madelung (1802–1877) ∞ Eleonore Perthes, daughter of Friedrich Christoph Perthes
Hermann Otto Madelung (1837–1866)
Otto Wilhelm Madelung (1846–1926), physician, ∞ Hedwig b. king
Walter Madelung (1879–1963), chemist
Erwin Madelung (1881–1972), physicist
Otfried Madelung (1922–2017), physicist
Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972) aircraft engineer
Gero Madelung (1928–2018), board member of Messerschmitt AG , Panavia Aircraft GmbH and MBB-GmbH, professor of aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Munich , ∞ Eva Bosch
Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (* 1930), Professor of Oriental Studies at Oxford University
Agnes Madelung, ∞ Leopold Braun (1812–1882)

literature

  • Uwe Jens Wandel: "... so deeply felt than respectful thanks ..." Addresses of artistic thanks from Hamburg after the Great Fire in 1842 using examples from Thuringia. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History (ZVHG) , 85 (1999), p. 35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The glorious and eternally memorable November days for the inhabitants of the Gotha land through the solemn entry of the Most Serene Duke, Mr. Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henningsche Buchhandlung, Gotha 1826
  2. ^ Friedrich Pethes: Letter to Rein from January 12, 1836, UFB Gotha Chart. A 2126 (3) fol. 114.
  3. ↑ Request to charitable people , in: Gothaische Zeitung of May 14, 1841 and Government and Intelligence Gazette of May 20, 1842
  4. ^ Ministry of State Dep. C Loc. I Tit. 6 No. 44 pp. 102-104; State Ministry Dep. C Loc. I Tit. 6 No. 133 Vol. 3 Bl. 132; State Ministry Dep. I Loc. 11 No. 65 Bl. 165/166; State Ministry Dep. I Loc. 11 No. 71 pp. 27/28. Gotha
  5. ^ Descendants of Moritz Madelung at KML
personal data
SURNAME Madelung, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1774
DATE OF DEATH 1855