Arnold Duckwitz
Arnold Duck joke ( born January 27, 1802 in Bremen, † March 19, 1881 in Bremen) was a businessman and senator as Mayor of the Hanseatic city of Bremen. As Hanseatic statesman he was from 1848 to 1849 Minister of Trade and Navy in the Provisional Government of the German Confederation.
Life
Businessman and Senator
Duck joke grew up in Bremen and completed a commercial apprenticeship. As a merchant, he spent several years in England and the Netherlands, where he imported animal skins from North America. In 1829 he settled in his native city, where he earned merits particular by improving the Weser shipping and introduction of steam navigation. He was with John Rösing spokesman of the liberal merchants in Bremen, marked by the July Revolution of 1830.
In 1837 he joined with the writing of the ratio of the free Hanseatic City of Bremen with the German Zollverein (Bremen ) for the German customs union. He was elected in 1840 in the College of parent people of the merchant ( head of the merchants ). Since 1841 Member of the Bremen Senate, he graduated in 1845 with the Kingdom of Hanover contracts for the construction of a railroad between Hannover and Bremen and the navigability of the river Weser in Bremen below for seagoing vessels. At the same time negotiating a connection between the Zollverein and the North Sea neighbors, the beginning of April 1847 led to the conclusion of a trade and navigation federal, but was never carried out began. Duck joke wrote to the German magazine Der trade and shipping covenant.
On Duck joke ' suggestion, a German -American steamship line was established. In the spring of 1847 he completed about with the American Postal Administration from a favorable contract.
1848: Minister
Duck joke involved from the early to mid 1848 as an expert in the economic committee of the National Assembly in Frankfurt. As Commissioner of Bremen in advising on the German trade relations, he wrote a memorandum to the Tariffs and Trade Constitution of Germany concerning. Subsequently, he was appointed in July 1848 Minister for Trade of the all-German government and later took over also the minister for naval affairs. He also strove for the creation of a German Empire fleet, which he published in 1849 a memorandum. In the turmoil of revolution and counter-revolution Duck joke succeeded in a short time creating a Reichsseewehr that could hold its own in German -Danish War on June 4, 1849 against the superior Danish fleet. After the failure of the Frankfurt National Assembly, he returned to the resignation of the liberal empire Prime Minister Heinrich von Gagern on May 10, 1849 back to Bremen.
From 1849 re Senator and Mayor
Duck joke was Senator in Bremen again. The 1856 between Bremen and the Zollverein trade agreement completed was mainly his work.
Between 1857 and 1863, Duck joke Bremen's mayor, succeeding the conservative, legendary Johann Smidt. He was so 200 years back, the first merchant in this post. Between 1866 and 1869 he took over the mayor's office a second time.
After his work as mayor, he remained as a senator in office until he retired in 1875. In 1877, he published his memoirs. He welcomed the creation of the German Empire.
Duck joke was on the Rien Berger Cemetery in Bremen buried ( grave situation 97/98/218/219 V, coordinates: 53 ° 5 ' 37.4 " N, 8 ° 51' 36.6 " O53.0937333333338.8601694444444 ).
Senator Richard Duck joke (1886-1972) was a grandson of Arnold Duck joke.
Honors
- The Duck joke street in Bremen -Neustadt in 1902 was named after him.
Works
- The ratio of the free Hanseatic City of Bremen with the German Zollverein. Bremen 1837.
- Fragments of my life. Bremen 1842.
- The German trade and shipping covenant. Bremen 1847.
- About the founding of the German Navy. Bremen 1849.
- Memoirs of my public life in 1841 bis 1866. Bremen 1877.