Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller ( born January 21, 1805 in Hamburg, † October 10, 1876 ibid ) was a lawyer and Senator and Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Family
The Jewish Family Haller moved under the reign of Frederick William, the Great Elector (1640-1688) from Vienna coming, first to Halle an der Saale, later to Hamburg. In 1814 the protection Jew Mendel Joseph Haller in Altona, was married to Elisabeth Gottschalk from Hannover, displayed by his elders, because he had not circumcised his son Nicolaus Ferdinand, shortly after he settled and the family baptized as a Christian and took the name Martin Joseph Haller on. In later years, Martin Joseph Haller judges and was the founder of a banking and goods business in Hamburg. From the Bankhaus Haller, Söhle & Co. developed in 1797.
Nicolaus Ferdinand's aunt, Amalie Gottschalk was married to Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz, founder of the banking house of Stieglitz & Co. in St. Petersburg.
Nicolaus Ferdinand's older sister Auguste married Johann Christian Söhle (1801-1871) who was a partner of the bank since 1830.
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller was with Phillipine Adele Oppenheimer (1807-1873) married a sister of Georg Friedrich Ludwig Oppenheimer. Phillipine Adele Oppenheimer, was born as the daughter of the Hamburg businessman and co-owner of the bank Heckscher & Co. Jacob Amschel Oppenheimer (1778-1845) and his wife Esther, born Heckscher, an aunt of Johann Gustav Heckscher. From Phillipine Adele's sisters married Anna Emilie (1803-1885) Johann Christoph Fehling; they were the parents of later Mayor of Lübeck Emil Ferdinand Fehling, Henriette Wilhelmine married the lawyer and later Hamburg Senator John Arning ( 1786-1862 ).
His son, Martin Emil Ferdinand Haller, was a well-known hamburger builder and architect who was, among other things involved in the planning of major Hamburger buildings, such as the Town Hall and the Music Hall.
Haller was a cousin of the mother of the painter Max Liebermann.
Professional career
After the jurisprudential studies at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen Haller had since 1827, first as a lawyer ( attorney ) in Hamburg down, where he was mainly active in commercial matters.
1844 Haller was a member of the Hamburg Senate. In this context, also participated in the deliberations for the Hamburg Constitutional. After the Senate reform of 1861 Haller was senator and was in the new Hamburg Senate next church Pauer one of the most influential personalities.
Haller was initially from 1860 Hamburg finance minister and then multiply
In 1876 he left the Senate and died in the same year.
Hallerstraße
The Haller Strasse in Hamburg is named after Nicolaus son Ferdinand Haller and not to his (now well known ). In the Third Reich, it was - as well as the corresponding U -Bahn station - in Ostmarkstraße renamed (1936 ), as Haller was of Jewish descent. 1945 both received their original names.
The Haller street forms the border between the districts of Rother tree and Harvestehude.