Wohlien
Wohlien is the name of a well-known family of organ builders with their own workshop in Altona .
family members
Generation I.
- Balthasar Wohlien (* 1745 in Wilster , † 1804 in Hamburg ), organ builder
Generation II
- Johann Heinrich Wohlien (1779–1842), organ builder, brother of Lorenz Rudolph W.
- Lorenz Rudolph Wohlien (1789–1834), organ and piano builder, brother of Johann Heinrich W.
Generation III
- Johann Conrad Rudolph Wohlien (1808–1866), organ builder
- Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869), painter and lithographer, son of Johann Heinrich W.
Generation IV
- Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien (* 1843 in Altona ; † 1871 there), organ builder; Son of Johann Conrad Wohlien, the company goes out on his death
literature
- Gustav Fock : Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38, 1939, pp. 289–373 ( Wohlien p.369 )