August Abendroth (6 October 1796 – 19 March 1867) was a Hamburg jurist, merchant and

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Biography

August Abendroth was the eldest on nine children of the Hamburg senator (and later mayor)

Amandus Augustus Abendroth Amandus Augustus Abendroth (16 October 1767 in Hamburg – 17 December 1842) was a German jurist and mayor of Hamburg. He was the son of Abraham Augustus Abendroth, a lower court procuration from Eisenberg, Saxony. Beginning in 1787, he studie ...

from his marriage to Johanna Magdalena von Reck. August's younger brother would become a Member of the Hamburg Parliament. Like his father, August studied

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and worked as a

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. In 1822 he became one of the 30 founding members of the , the organisation that founded the

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. He also promoted the Home mission. He even participated in promoting railways and building sites. In 1837 he bought the largely unused Uhlenhorst area for 70,000 Bank Marks (106500 Mark Courant) at auction and began work on the drainage and subdivision. This was essential for building the new

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district. After his death, his widow bequeathed a portion of his private book collection to the city library, and a Uhlenhorst street is named after him. One of his daughters, Helene (1827–1911), married the painter Karl Ross, whose art career Abendroth had promoted, encouraging his studies abroad and buying many of his paintings.

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1796 births 1867 deaths Businesspeople from Hamburg Grand burghers of Hamburg {{Germany-noble-stub