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Hanseaten (English: Hanseatics) are called the First Families of Hamburg conjointly with the equal First Families of the free imperial cities Bremen and Lübeck. The members of these families were the persons in possession of hereditary great burghership of these cities, the mayors (Bürgermeister), the Senatoren and Hauptpastoren.

The cities are named since the Congress of Vienna 1815 the Free and Hanseatic^[1] City (Freie und Hansestadt) Hamburg,^[2] the Free Hanseatic City (Freie Hansestadt) Bremen and the Free and Hanseatic City (Freie und Hansestadt), since 1937^[3] merely the Hanseatic City (Hansestadt) Lübeck.

Hamburg was one of the oldest stringent civic republics,^[4] in which the Hanseatics preserved their constitutional privileges till the German Revolution of 1918.^[5]

[edit] Hanseatic families

A few prominent families are listed here.

[edit] Abendroth

Amandus Augustus Abendroth (1767-1842), mayor of Hamburg
August Abendroth (1796-1876), lawyer
Carl Eduard Abenroth (1804-1885), merchant, member of the Hamburg parliament

[edit] Amsinck

Rudolf Amsinck (1577–1636), senator of Hamburg
Wilhelm Amsinck (1752–1831), mayor of Hamburg

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Fehling

Hermann von Fehling (1812-1885), German chemist
Johann Fehling (1835–1893), Lübeck senator
Emil Ferdinand Fehling (1847–1927), mayor of Lübeck, "Dr. Moritz Hagenström" in Buddenbrooks

[edit] Godeffroy

[edit] Goßler

Hermann Goßler (1802−1877), mayor of Hamburg
John von Berenberg-Gossler (1866−1943), Hamburg senator and banker
Oskar Goßler (1875-1953), German sculler
Gustav Goßler (1879-1940), German sculler

[edit] Hudtwalker

Johann Michael Hudtwalcker (1747-1818), Hamburg merchant
Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker (1787–1865) Hamburg senator
Nicolaus Hudtwalcker (1794–1863), Hamburg insurance broker

[edit] Jauch

Jauch family

Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765-1855), Hamburg merchant and great burgher
Auguste Jauch (1822-1902), Hamburg benefactor to the poor
August Jauch (1861-1930), delegate of the great burghers (Notabelnabgeordneter) to the Hamburg parliament
Hans Jauch (1883-1985), German colonel and Freikorps-leader
Walter Jauch (1888-1976), founder of Aon Jauch & Hübener
Günther Jauch (b. 1956), German television host and producer

[edit] Jencquel

[edit] Lorenz-Meyer

[edit] Mann

Mann family treee

Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (1840-1891), senator of Lübeck, "Thomas Buddenbrook " in Buddenbrooks
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), German novelist
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist
Erika Mann (1905-1969), German actress and writer
Klaus Mann (1906-1949), German novelist
Golo Mann (1909-1994), German historian

[edit] Merck (Hamburg stirps of the Merck family)

Heinrich Johann Merck (1770−1853), Hamburg senator
Carl Hermann Merck (1809-1880), Hamburg privy councillor
Ernst Merck (1811-1863), Baron, Hamburg merchant

[edit] Moller (vom Baum)

Barthold (Bartholomeus) Moller (1605–1667), mayor of Hamburg

[edit] Mutzenbecher

Matthias Mutzenbecher (1653–1735), senator of Hamburg
Johann Baptista Mutzenbecher (1691-1759), privy councillor (Senatssyndicus) of Hamburg

[edit] Nölting

[edit] Overbeck

Johann Daniel Overbeck (1715–1802), theologian and dean of the Katharineum
Christian Adolph Overbeck (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 Overbeck (1789-1869), German painter, head of the Nazarene movement
Christian Theodor Overbeck (1818–1880), senator of Lübeck
Johannes Overbeck (1826-1895), German archaeologist

[edit] Parish

John Parish (1742–1829), Hamburg merchant

[edit] Petersen

Carl Friedrich Petersen (1809–1892), mayor of Hamburg
Carl Wilhelm Petersen (1868–1933), mayor of Hamburg

[edit] Schlüter

[edit] Schröder

Christian Matthias Schröder (1742–1821), mayor of Hamburg
Christian Matthias Schröder (1778–1860), Hamburg senator
Johann Heinrich Schröder (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

[edit] Schuback

Nicolaus Schuback (1700-1783), mayor of Hamburg

[edit] Siemers

Edmund Siemers (1840–1918), Hamburg ship-owner
Kurt Siemers (1873–1944), Hamburg ship-owner and banker
Kurt Hartwig Siemers (1907–1988), Hamburg banker

[edit] Sieveking

Georg Heinrich Sieveking (1751-1791), Hamburg merchant
Edward Henry Sieveking (1816-1904), Sir, physician
Kurt Sieveking (1897-1986), mayor of Hamburg

[edit] Sillem

Garlieb Sillem 1717-1732 mayor of Hamburg

[edit] Sloman

Robert Miles Sloman (1783–1867), Hamburg ship-owner
Henry Brarens Sloman (1848–1931), Hamburg ship-owner

[edit] Tesdopf

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

[edit] See also

List of mayors of Hamburg - Hanseatics being those since approximately 1650, Hanseatic families are normally those of the mayors until 1918.

[edit] References

^ The Hanseatic League ended about mid of the 17th century. J. Werdenhagen, De Rebus Publicis Hanseaticis Tractatus, Frankfurt 1641, was the first to use the term "Hanseatic", characterizing the Union between Hamburg, Bremen und Lübeck, created between 1630 and 1650 in lieu of the perished Hanse. Gerhard Ahrens, Hanseatisch, in: Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck-Lexikon, 2006, with reference to: Rainer Postel: Hanseaten, Zur politischen Kultur Hamburgs, Bremens und Lübecks., in: Der Bürger im Staat 34 (1984), 153-158; Herbert Schwarzwälder, Hanseaten, hanseatisch, in: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X
^ Subsequent to the Greater Hamburg Act namend since 1938 Hanseatic City (Hansestadt) Hamburg, since the constitution of 6 June 1952 again Free and Hanseatic City (Freie und Hansestadt), beeing as city a State of Germany
^ Greater Hamburg Act; Lübeck lost in the "Lübeck-decision" (de:Lübeck-Urteil) on 5 December 1956 before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in its attempt to reconstitute its statehood
^ Nobles where banned since 1276 from living inside the city wall – Renate Hauschild-Thiessen, Adel und Bürgertum in Hamburg, in: Hamburgisches Geschlechterbuch, volume 14, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. XXII
^ The historical science assumes a timocratic or oligarchic character of Hamburg's constitution, beeing the reason why Hamburg at the Congress of Vienna was accepted by the princes of the German states as a member of the German Confederation – Peter Borowsky, Vertritt die „Bürgerschaft“ die Bürgerschaft? Verfassungs-, Bürger- und Wahlrecht in Hamburg von 1814 bis 1914, in: Schlaglichter historischer Forschung. Studien zur deutschen Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Hamburg, p. 93)

[0] The Hanseatic League ended about mid of the 17th century. J. Werdenhagen, De Rebus Publicis Hanseaticis Tractatus, Frankfurt 1641, was the first to use the term "Hanseatic", characterizing the Union between Hamburg, Bremen und Lübeck, created between 1630 and 1650 in lieu of the perished Hanse. Gerhard Ahrens, Hanseatisch, in: Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck-Lexikon, 2006, with reference to: Rainer Postel: Hanseaten, Zur politischen Kultur Hamburgs, Bremens und Lübecks., in: Der Bürger im Staat 34 (1984), 153-158; Herbert Schwarzwälder, Hanseaten, hanseatisch, in: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X

[1] Subsequent to the Greater Hamburg Act namend since 1938 Hanseatic City (Hansestadt) Hamburg, since the constitution of 6 June 1952 again Free and Hanseatic City (Freie und Hansestadt), beeing as city a State of Germany

[2] Greater Hamburg Act; Lübeck lost in the "Lübeck-decision" (de:Lübeck-Urteil) on 5 December 1956 before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in its attempt to reconstitute its statehood

[3] Nobles where banned since 1276 from living inside the city wall – Renate Hauschild-Thiessen, Adel und Bürgertum in Hamburg, in: Hamburgisches Geschlechterbuch, volume 14, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. XXII

[4] The historical science assumes a timocratic or oligarchic character of Hamburg's constitution, beeing the reason why Hamburg at the Congress of Vienna was accepted by the princes of the German states as a member of the German Confederation – Peter Borowsky, Vertritt die „Bürgerschaft“ die Bürgerschaft? Verfassungs-, Bürger- und Wahlrecht in Hamburg von 1814 bis 1914, in: Schlaglichter historischer Forschung. Studien zur deutschen Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Hamburg, p. 93)

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