1 the Descendants of a Danish Pöhls Family
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THE DESCENDANTS OF A DANISH PÖHLS FAMILY (All information on the living was found on the Internet) INTRODUCTION This following is an overview of the descendants of one of the two known Danish PÖHLS families. That family originated in the city of Schönberg in Ratzeburg, part of Mecklenburg-Strehlitz, and moved in stages to Copenhagen, Denmark. The other Danish PÖHLS family originated in the city of Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and moved to Lemvig, Denmark. Ludwig Gottlieb Theodor PÖHLS, baptized and confirmed in Schwerin, founded this family in 1861, when he married Therese Marie GLISTRUP in Lemvig. Family Overview Sometime around 1804, Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the first son of Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (Sr.) and Anna Magdalena (“An Lehn”) STEGMANN of the city of Schönberg. In Copenhagen, he became a citizen of that city and married Karin Kirstine (“Caroline” -- also known as Ida Caroline) NIELSEN in 1804. He was a Bager [baker] and later a Bagermester [master baker in Danish]. Why he, the eldest son of Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (Sr.), a Bäckermeister [master baker in German] and the bakers’ guildmaster in the city of Schönberg, moved to Copenhagen is unknown. Perhaps he wanted to see the big city lights. Perhaps he wished to avoid the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars (Mecklenburg was occupied by the French, Denmark was not). Or perhaps he wished to escape his father’s shadow. Sometime around 1810, Johann Hinrich PÖHLS also moved to Copenhagen. He was the second son of Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (Sr.) and An Lehn STEGMANN. He became a citizen of Copenhagen and married Johanne NIELSEN in October 1810 (no relationship has been established between Karin Kirstine and Johanne). He started out as a Bagermester. With his two surviving older brothers absent in Denmark, the fourth son of Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (Sr.) and An Lehn STEGMANN, Christian Hinrich PÖHLS, inherited his father’s business in Schönberg (the third son, also named Christian Hinrich, died in infancy). He was a Bäckermeister, Rathmann [city alderman], and Kaufmann [businessman] in Schönberg. Christian married Catharina HEIN in 1810, and the couple had eight children: 1. Christian Hartwig PÖHLS (about 1810-1813) 2. Christian Hartwig Gottfried PÖHLS (1812-) 3. Catharina Maria PÖHLS (1814-1895) 4. Johann Christian Hartwig (“Hartwig”) PÖHLS (1817-1855 or later) 5. Ida Carolina Elisabeth PÖHLS (1819-) 6. Catharina Elisabeth Johanna (“Johanna”) PÖHLS (1821-1894) 7. Christian Friedrich Lorenz Joachim PÖHLS (1823-1853 or later) 8. Johann Carl Ludwig PÖHLS (1825-1855 or later) Christian died on 11 September 1829. By 26 April 1829, 14-year-old daughter Catharina Maria PÖHLS was living in Copenhagen. Perhaps she had been sent to her uncles to be looked after (at the time of the 1834 Danish census, she was living with her uncle Johann, not her mother). Soon, her mother and all of her siblings except Christian Hartwig Gottfried PÖHLS appear to have been living in Copenhagen.1 In 1831, Catharina nee HEIN, Christian’s widow, remarried. Her new husband was Joachim Daniel Christoph METHLING, a Copenhagen master baker. With Joachim, Catharina had a son, Herman Joachim Peter METHLING (born in 1832) and a daughter, Caroline Marie METHLING (born in 1833). Both of these children married. The sons of Christian PÖHLS and Catharina nee HEIN appear to have worked primarily in Copenhagen bakeries. After 1855, they can no longer be found in Danish records. Where did they go? Perhaps they decided to return to Germany. When last seen, although all were in their 30s, none had married. The three daughters of Christian PÖHLS and Catharina nee HEIN did not disappear and did marry. The oldest daughter, Catharina Maria PÖHLS, married Christian Kjellerup (“C.K.”) HANSEN (1813-1868) in 1836. C.K. began as an employee of the Danish SUHR family’s company. He liked business and was good at it. Soon, he struck out on his own and he prospered. He founded the C.K. Hansen Co. In addition to being a business success, he was a patron of the arts and an art collector. Catharina and Christian have many living Danish descendants, one living English descendant, and possibly Swedish descendants, as well. The second daughter, Ida Carolina Elisabeth PÖHLS, married Frederik SUHR (1818-1891) in 1844. Frederik was a scion of an old and prosperous Danish mercantile family. In fact, C.K. HANSEN worked for a SUHR family firm before starting his own business. After their marriage, Ida and Frederik moved to Huntley farm in southern Sweden. Huntley is currently a horse farm, and perhaps was a horse farm during the time that Ida and Frederik lived there. Ida and Frederik left the farm in 1875 and returned to Copenhagen. Two others from Huntley, possibly farm staff or servants, also moved to Denmark at the same time. Ida and Frederik did not have any children. The third daughter, Johanna PÖHLS, married Carl Christian (“Christian”) BURMEISTER (1821-1898) in 1847. Christian was an engineer, entrepreneur, and Danish state councilor. He studied at the Polytechnical Institute in Copenhagen from 1836-46. Later, he co-founded Burmeister & Wain, a Danish shipyard and diesel engine manufacturer. Johanna and Christian had four children. They have living Danish descendants. The BURMEISTERs and HANSENs are known to have been close. For example, Johan HANSEN, a grandson of C.K. HANSEN, recalled visits made by his father’s uncle, Christian BURMEISTER, in his memoirs, and one of the baptismal sponsors of Gunnar Robert HANSEN, another descendant of C.K. HANSEN, was Hans Johan Albert BURMEISTER, one of the sons of Christian BURMEISTER. One BURMEISTER granddaughter, Marie Louise EKMAN, married a HANSEN descendant, Willie C. K. HANSEN. 1 No Danish evidence has been found showing that Christian Friedrich Lorenz Joachim PÖHLS ever lived in Copenhagen. However, a clerical survey for Huntley farm in Turag in the Lutheran parish of Hjärnarp in southern Sweden says that he arrived there from Copenhagen in 1848 and returned from there to Copenhagen in 1853. That, of course, does not necessarily mean that he actually lived in Copenhagen. 1 In 1822, Cathrina Dorothea Charlotta PÖHLS, a younger half-sister of Hartwig Lorenz, Johann Hinrich, and Christian Hinrich PÖHLS, had a son out of wedlock. Sometime around 1845, that son, Carl Heinrich Christoph PÖHLS, moved to the Copenhagen area. After arriving, he married Christine Louise MORITZ in 1845. He worked as a low-level baker [Bäckergeselle]. He and his wife had five children, all of whom but one daughter are known to have died young. Christian died in Copenhagen in 1853. His widow has not been found in the records after 1858. (This family is not included in the family tree found below.) Lastly, in the 1860 Danish census, Johanne Caroline Elisabeth PÖHLS, 28 years old, was in the household of Christian BURMEISTER at Overgaden neden Vandet 170- 71 in Copenhagen. She was a granddaughter of Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (Sr.) of Schönberg and his second wife, Dortie Lisch LEMBECKE. Was she just visiting her cousin, Christian’s wife, or had she come to stay? No further information about her has been found in Copenhagen or Schönberg.. PÖHLS Ancestors This family descends from Barthold PÖHLS of Barckhorst in Holstein, their earliest known PÖHLS ancestor, and his wife Catherina as follows: Barthold PÖHLS (-before 1650) & Catharina (about 1566-1666) . Hans PÖHLS/PÖHLSEN (1629-) & Anna SCHMITT (1630-) . Christian PÖLITZ/PÖHLS/PÖHLSEN (about 1659-1701) & (Anna) Dorothea (VON DER) WETTERING (about 1677-) . Frantz Jochim PÖHLS (about 1699-1745) & Anna Lucia ROBRAHN (about 1703-1743) . Frantz Jochim PÖHLS (1729-1796) & Greth Elisabeth KNIP . Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS (1753-1809) & Anna Magdalena (“An Lehn”) STEGMANN (about 1755-1793) Barthold PÖHLS was a peasant smallholder in Barckhorst. Hans PÖHLS/PÖHLSEN moved from Barckhorst to Schossin in Mecklenburg, where he, too, was a peasant. Christian PÖLITZ/PÖHLS/PÖHLSEN moved from Schossin to Gadebusch in Mecklenburg, where he was a blacksmith (his maternal grandfather had been a guildmaster of the smiths on the island of Fehmarn, which is off of the east coast of Holstein). Finally, Frantz Jochim PÖHLS (Sr.) moved from Gadebusch to Schönberg (his occupation was never mentioned in church records). DESCENDANTS Key to the Family Tree b. = born d. = died m. = married dvd. = divorced abt = about * = married more than once & = spouse H. = parish Family Tree Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS b. 1753, Schönberg, Mecklenburg d. 1 Oct 1809, probably in Schönberg & Anna Magdalena (“An Lehn”) STEGMANN b. abt 1755 d. 1793, probably in Schönberg, Mecklenburg m. 13 Oct 1775, Lutheran Church at Schönberg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Hartwig Lorenz PÖHLS b. 1777, Schönberg d. 12 Dec 1859, probably in Copenhagen, Denmark & Karin Kirstine NIELSEN b. abt 1781 d. 22 Jun 1846, probably in Copenhagen, Denmark m. 22 Jun 1804, St. Petri Lutheran Church, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 . Ida Amalia PÖHLS b. 8 Jun 1805, probably in Frederiksberg, Denmark . Johann Hinrich PÖHLS b. 1779, Schönberg d. 18 May 1845, probably in Copenhagen, Denmark & Johanne NIELSEN m. 18 Oct 1810, Lutheran Church at Frederiksberg, Denmark . Christian Hinrich PÖHLS b. ? 1781, Schönberg d. 16 Jun 1781 . Christian Hinrich PÖHLS b. 1782, Schönberg d. 11 Sep 1829, probably in Schönberg & Catharine Sophia HEIN b. abt 1790, Schönberg, Mecklenburg m. 26 Oct 1810, Lutheran Church at Schöberg, Mecklenburg . Christian Hartwig PÖHLS b. abt Jun 1810, probably in Schönberg d. 11 Sep 1813, probably in Schönberg . Christian Hartwig Gottfried PÖHLS b. 18 Jan 1812 . Catharina Maria PÖHLS b. 18 Jan 1814, probably in Schönberg d. 31 Aug 1895, Copenhagen, Denmark & Christian Kjellerup (“CK”) HANSEN b. 13 Jul 1813, Copenhagen, Denmark d. 1 Jun 1868, Haderslev, Denmark m. 2 Dec 1836, St. Petri Lutheran Church, Copenhagen, Denmark . Johan Peter Christian HANSEN b. 6 Feb 1838, Copenhagen, Denmark d.