Hanseaten (class)
Encyclopedia
The Hanseaten is a collective term for the heirachy group (so called First Families) consisting of elite individuals and families of prestigious rank who constituted the ruling class
of the free imperial city
of Hamburg
, conjointly with the equal First Families of the free imperial cities Bremen
and Lübeck
. The members of these First Families were the persons in possession of hereditary great burghership
(German: Großbürgerschaft) of these cities, including the mayor
s (Bürgermeister), the senators (Senatoren) and the senior pastors (Hauptpastoren).
The three cities since the Congress of Vienna
1815 are each officially named the "Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg" (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), the "Free Hanseatic City Bremen" (Freie Hansestadt Bremen) and the "Free and Hanseatic City Lübeck" (Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck), since 1937 merely the "Hanseatic City Lübeck" (Hansestadt Lübeck).
Hamburg was one of the oldest stringent civic republics, in which the Hanseatics preserved their constitution
al privileges granted in 1189 by Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
until the German Revolution of 1918–19 and the Weimar Constitution
.
Ruling class
The term ruling class refers to the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society's political policy - assuming there is one such particular class in the given society....
of the free imperial city
Free Imperial City
In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops...
of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, conjointly with the equal First Families of the free imperial cities Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
and Lübeck
Lübeck
The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World...
. The members of these First Families were the persons in possession of hereditary great burghership
Great burgher
Great Burgher is a specific title and legally defined "order of citizenship", a higher ranking type of citizen and social order, a formally defined social class of wealthy high status individuals and families in medieval German-speaking cities and towns under the Holy...
(German: Großbürgerschaft) of these cities, including the mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
s (Bürgermeister), the senators (Senatoren) and the senior pastors (Hauptpastoren).
The three cities since the Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars,...
1815 are each officially named the "Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg" (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), the "Free Hanseatic City Bremen" (Freie Hansestadt Bremen) and the "Free and Hanseatic City Lübeck" (Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck), since 1937 merely the "Hanseatic City Lübeck" (Hansestadt Lübeck).
Hamburg was one of the oldest stringent civic republics, in which the Hanseatics preserved their constitution
Constitution
A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is...
al privileges granted in 1189 by Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I Barbarossa was a German Holy Roman Emperor. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155, and two years later in 1157 the term...
until the German Revolution of 1918–19 and the Weimar Constitution
Weimar constitution
The Constitution of the German Reich , usually known as the Weimar Constitution was the constitution that governed Germany during the Weimar Republic...
.
Abendroth
- Amandus Augustus AbendrothAmandus Augustus AbendrothAmandus Augustus Abendroth was a German jurist and mayor of Hamburg.He was the son of Abraham Augustus Abendroth, a lower court procuraton from Eisenberg, Saxony. Beginning in 1787, he studied law in Erlangen and Göttingen, where he was awarded a doctorate on 30 March 1790. He married in Venice...
(1767–1842), mayor of Hamburg - August Abendroth (1796–1876), lawyer
- Carl Eduard Abenroth (1804–1885), merchant, member of the Hamburg parliament
Albers
- Johann Christoph Albers (1741–1800), merchant representative of Bremen
- Johann Heinrich Albers (1775–1800), merchant of Bremen/London, art collector
- Anton Albers der Ältere (1765–1844), merchant of Bremen/Lausanne, painter
Amsinck
- Rudolf Amsinck (1577–1636), senator of Hamburg
- Wilhelm Amsinck (1752–1831), mayor of Hamburg
Burchard
- Johann Heinrich Burchard (1852–1912), mayor of Hamburg
- Johannes Leopold Burchard (1857–1925), Hamburg lawyer
- Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz (1878–1963), mayor of Hamburg
de Chapeaurouge
- Frédéric de Chapeaurouge (1813–1867), senator of Hamburg
- Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge (1830–1897), senator of Hamburg
- Paul de Chapeaurouge (1876–1952), senator of Hamburg
- Alfred de Chapeaurouge (1907–1993), German politician
Fehling
- Hermann von FehlingHermann von FehlingHermann von Fehling was a German chemist, famous as the developer of Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar.-Biography:...
(1812–1885), German chemist - Johann Fehling (1835–1893), Lübeck senator
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling (1847–1927), mayor of Lübeck, "Dr. Moritz Hagenström" in BuddenbrooksBuddenbrooksBuddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany....
Goßler
- Hermann Goßler (1802−1877), mayor of Hamburg
- John von Berenberg-Gossler (1866−1943), Hamburg senator and banker
- Oskar GoßlerOskar GoßlerOskar Goßler was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the German boat Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours final B.-External links:*...
(1875–1953), German sculler - Gustav GoßlerGustav GoßlerGustav Ludvig Goßler was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the German boat Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours final B.-External links:*...
(1879–1940), German sculler
Hudtwalker
- Johann Michael Hudtwalcker (1747–1818), Hamburg merchant
- Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker (1787–1865) Hamburg senator
- Nicolaus Hudtwalcker (1794–1863), Hamburg insurance broker
Jauch
- Jauch familyJauch familyThe Jauch family of Germany is a Hanseatic family, originating from Bergsulza in Thuringia and for the first time documented in the 15th century...
- Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765–1855), Hamburg merchant and Great BurgherGreat burgherGreat Burgher is a specific title and legally defined "order of citizenship", a higher ranking type of citizen and social order, a formally defined social class of wealthy high status individuals and families in medieval German-speaking cities and towns under the Holy...
- Auguste Jauch (1822–1902), Hamburg benefactor to the poor
- Carl Jauch (1828-1888), Great Burgher, Lord of WellingsbüttelWellingsbüttel ManorWellingsbüttel Manor is a former manor with a baroque manor house in Hamburg, Germany, which once enjoyed imperial immediacy . Wellingsbüttel was documented for the first time on 10 October 1296...
and Cavalry Lieutenant in the Hamburg Citizen MilitiaHamburg Citizen MilitiaThe Hamburg Citizen Militia or Hanseatic Citizen Guard was a citizen militia of the free cities and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, formed from conscripted citizens and inhabitants of the city. It was formed in 1814 and dissolved in 1868.... - August Jauch (1861–1930), delegate of the great burghers (Notabelnabgeordneter) to the Hamburg parliament
- Hans Jauch (1883–1985), German colonel and FreikorpsFreikorpsFreikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...
-leader - Walter Jauch (1888–1976), founder of Aon Jauch & Hübener
- Günther JauchGünther JauchGünther Johannes Jauch is a German television host. He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea Jauch and his four children.- Biography :...
(b. 1956), German television host and producer
Mann
- Mann family treeDohm-Mann family treeThe Dohm-Mann family tree contains a number of famous writers, musicians and actors. This family tree is not complete but is focused on showing the relationship of the well-known members of the family....
- Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (1840–1891), senator of Lübeck, "Thomas Buddenbrook " in BuddenbrooksBuddenbrooksBuddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany....
- Heinrich MannHeinrich MannLuiz Heinrich Mann was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War II German society led to his exile in 1933.-Life and work:Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann...
(1871–1950), German novelist - Thomas MannThomas MannThomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
(1875–1955), German novelist - Erika MannErika MannErika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.-Life:...
(1905–1969), German actress and writer - Klaus MannKlaus Mann- Life and work :Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a...
(1906–1949), German novelist - Golo MannGolo MannGolo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:...
(1909–1994), German historian
Merck (Hamburg stirps of the Merck family)
- Heinrich Johann Merck (1770−1853), Hamburg senator
- Carl Hermann Merck (1809–1880), Hamburg privy councillor
- Ernst MerckErnst MerckFreiherr Ernst Merck was a German businessman and politician.Merck, born in Hamburg, was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament for a year from 1848 to 1849....
(1811–1863), Baron, Hamburg merchant
Mutzenbecher
- Matthias Mutzenbecher (1653–1735), senator of Hamburg
- Johann Baptista Mutzenbecher (1691–1759), privy councillor (Senatssyndicus) of Hamburg
Overbeck
- Johann Daniel Overbeck (1715–1802), theologian and dean of the Katharineum
- Christian Adolph OverbeckChristian Adolph OverbeckChristian Adolph Overbeck was a German poet, and the Burgomaster of Lübeck.- Family :...
(1755–1821), mayor of Lübeck, novelist - Christian Gerhard Overbeck (1784–1846), judge at the High Court of Appeal of the four free cities
- Johann Friedrich OverbeckJohann Friedrich OverbeckJohann Friedrich Overbeck , was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. He also made four etchings.-Biography:...
(1789–1869), German painter, head of the Nazarene movement - Christian Theodor Overbeck (1818–1880), senator of Lübeck
- Johannes OverbeckJohannes OverbeckJohannes Adolph Overbeck was a German archaeologist and art historian.-Biography:Overbeck was born in Antwerp. He was son-in-law to zoologist Georg August Goldfuss , and was father-in-law to anthropologist Emil Ludwig Schmidt . His uncle was famed painter Friedrich Overbeck .In 1848 Overbeck...
(1826–1895), German archaeologist
Petersen
- Carl Friedrich Petersen (1809–1892), mayor of Hamburg
- Carl Wilhelm PetersenCarl Wilhelm PetersenCarl Wilhelm Petersen was a German lawyer, politician for the German Democratic Party and First Mayor of Hamburg .-External links:...
(1868–1933), mayor of Hamburg - Rudolf PetersenRudolf PetersenRudolf Hieronymus Petersen was a German businessman, politician and First Mayor of Hamburg ....
(1878–1962), mayor of Hamburg
Schröder
- Christian Matthias Schröder (1742–1821), mayor of Hamburg
- Christian Mathias Schröder (1778–1860), Hamburg senator
- Johann Heinrich SchröderJohann Heinrich SchröderJohann Heinrich Schröder was the founder of Schroders, one of the United Kingdom's largest investment banks.-Career:Having been admitted to his older brother's firm, J. F...
(Freiherr John Henry Schröder) (1784–1883), Baron, Hamburg banker - Carl August Schröder (1821–1902), Hamburg judge and member of parliament
- Carl August Schröder (1855–1945), mayor of Hamburg
Siemers
- Edmund Siemers (1840–1918), Hamburg ship-owner
- Kurt Siemers (1873–1944), Hamburg ship-owner and banker
- Kurt Hartwig Siemers (1907–1988), Hamburg banker
Sieveking
- Georg Heinrich SievekingGeorg Heinrich SievekingGeorg Heinrich Sieveking was a German merchant and follower of the Enlightenment. Together with his friend and business partner, Caspar Voght, he led one of the largest trading firms in the Hanseatic League during the second half of the 18th century...
(1751–1791), Hamburg merchant - Edward Henry SievekingEdward Henry SievekingEdward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841.For much of...
(1816–1904), Sir, physician - Kurt SievekingKurt Sieveking-External links:...
(1897–1986), mayor of Hamburg
Sloman
- Robert Miles SlomanRobert Miles SlomanRobert Miles Sloman was an English-German shipbuilder and ship owner.-Shipping:...
(1783–1867), Hamburg ship-owner - Henry Brarens Sloman (1848–1931), Hamburg ship-owner
Tesdorpf
- Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1648–1723), mayor of Lübeck
- Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1751–1832), mayor of Lübeck
- Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf (1749–1824), mayor of Lübeck
- Adolph Tesdorpf (1811–1887), Hamburg senator
- Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920), Hamburg illustrator and aquarellist
See also
- List of mayors of Hamburg - Hanseatics being those since approximately 1650, Hanseatic families are normally those of the mayors until 1918.