Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (ca. 1690 – 23 November 1757) was a German

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Krempe Krempe is a town in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated between Itzehoe and Glückstadt. Krempe is part of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Krempermarsch. Partner towns * Sankt Martin im Sulmtal in der ...

, Klapmeyer presumably learned the trade from his father Johann (Jean) Werner Klapmeyer, who had been a journeyman with

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and was involved, among other things, in the construction of the organ in Wittmund. In 1729, he acquired the

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of Glückstadt and worked there as an ''organ and instrument maker'' On the side, he ran a hostelry with an inn. From 1733 onwards, he was in conflict with his competitors

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and Johann Dietrich Busch, who ran a workshop in Itzehoe. After petitioning the Danish king five times, Klapmeyer received the longed-for organ building concession for life for the area of Schleswig-Holstein in 1735. In the last years of his life he was in poor health and worked in his inn. His journeyman Johann Joachim Maaß took over the organ work. After Klapmeyer's death in 1758, the privilege was transferred to his widow, who commissioned Maaß with the work. In 1763, Maaß received the privilege from her.Vogel: ''Orgeln in Niedersachsen.'' 1997, . A descendant that bore his name, Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1724–1792), possibly a grandson, was based in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) and built and repaired instruments in the and the .

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