Johann Heinrich Burchard (26 July 1852 – 6 September 1912) was a
Hamburg
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lawyer and politician who served as
senator (from 1885 until his death) and
First Mayor and President of the
Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (in 1903, 1906, 1908–1909 and from 1 January 1912 until his death).
Burchard was born in
Bremen, a member of the
Hanseatic
The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=German language, Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Norther ...
Burchard family, the son of banker Friedrich Wilhelm Burchard (1824–92) and Marianne
Gossler (1830–1908), a granddaughter of Senator and banker
Johann Heinrich Gossler
Johann Heinrich Gossler (born 28 March 1775, died 3 April 1842) was a Hamburg banker and grand burgher, a member of the Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty, a co-owner (from 1798) of the Berenberg Bank and a senator of Hamburg from 1821. He ...
and a great-granddaughter of
Johann Hinrich Gossler
Johann Hinrich Gossler (born 18 August 1738 in Hamburg, died 31 August 1790 in Hamburg) was a German banker and grand burgher of Hamburg, a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler banking dynasty and the owner and head of the firm Joh. Beren ...
and
Elisabeth Berenberg
Elisabeth Berenberg (2 December 1749 – 16 January 1822) was a Hamburg heiress, merchant banker and a member of the Berenberg family. She was the last male line member of the Flemish-origined Hanseatic Berenberg banking family in Hamburg, and anc ...
. His father was a merchant in Bremen, who in 1853 became a partner of the
Berenberg Bank (Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co.) owned by his wife's family. The family then relocated to Hamburg,
where, after taking part in the
Franco-Prussian War as a volunteer, he completed his
abitur at the
Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
The ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' ( ''Academic School of the Johanneum'', short: Johanneum) is a Gymnasium (or Grammar School ) in Hamburg, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen. The school's f ...
before studying law at the Universities of
Leipzig
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,
Heidelberg
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and
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911.
General information
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As a typical Hanseat, he rejected noble titles and any form of awards.
A portrait of Burchard by
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...
is displayed at Hamburg's representation (embassy) in Berlin.
In 1877, he married Emily Henriette
Amsinck (1858–1931), a daughter of Wilhelm Amsinck (1821–1909). His oldest son,
Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz
Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz (born 4 July 1878 in Hamburg, died 13 January 1963 in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and national-liberal politician. He served as Senator for Trade, Shipping and Industry of Hamburg from 1925 to 1933 and as Second May ...
, was also a Hamburg senator and Second Mayor.
Heinrich Burchard died in
Hamburg
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, aged 60.
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Leipzig University alumni
Heidelberg University alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
People educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
Mayors of Hamburg
Senators of Hamburg (before 1919)
Grand burghers of Hamburg
1852 births
1912 deaths