page_title: Jauch family
section_title: Grand Burghers of Hamburg
hierarchical_section_title: Jauch family / Overview / Hanseatics / Grand Burghers of Hamburg
caption_attribution_description: Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765-1855)
context_page_description: The Jauch family of Germany is a Hanseatic family which can be traced back till the Late Middle Ages. At the end of the 17th century the family showed up in the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The members of the family acted as long-distance merchants. They became hereditary grand burghers of Hamburg and were Lords of Wellingsbüttel Manor – nowadays a quarter of Hamburg.
  The Jauch have brought forth some notable lineal descendants, both patrilineal and matrilineal. They can trace the nearer cognatic kinship of the issue of the progenitor Johann Christian Jauch the Elder in the following centuries to a number of renowned contemporaries.
context_section_description: The trading firm was relocated in the middle of the 18th century by Carl Daniel Jauch (1714–1794) from the falling back Lüneburg to Hamburg, the ″Queen of the cities″. Since the 17th century Hamburg played a special role in Germany's economic history because thanks to its fortifications it came out of the Thirty Years' War as the wealthiest and most populous of all German cities.
  Hamburg was a strictly bourgeois mercantile republic in which neither nobility existed, which was exiled since 1276, nor patricians in the strict sense of the formally defined class of governing elites found within the other free imperial cities. In contrast to the mediatised burgesses in the towns located in monarchies which were governed by authoritarianism Hamburg was characterized by its free citizens tied to the culture of England. Although a republic the town was not a democracy moreover an oligarchy because it was governed solely by the Hanseaten. They formed the small in Hamburg and Bremen purely bourgeois upper class of society in the sovereign and republican states Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck.
  These three cities built up between 1630 and 1650 the Hanseatic Community (German: Hanseatische Gemeinschaft). It was formed after the Hanseatic League became informally extinct in the beginning of the 17th century. Therefore, it has to be differentiated between the earlier Hanseatic merchants (German: Hansekaufmann) of the former Hanseatic League and the later Hanseaten as a class of the three cities which built the Hanseatic Community.
  Since the end of the 18th century the family belongs to the Hanseaten. Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765–1855) who is the last common ancestor of today's Jauch, gained at the end of the 18th century the citizenship (German: Bürgerrecht) of the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and subsequently the hereditary grand burghership (German: Großbürgerrecht). Rittmeister (English: captain of the cavalry) August Jauch (1848–1930) was for almost twenty years till 1915 – when he volunteered regardless of his age for military service in the Landwehr cavalry - one of the last members of the Hamburg Parliament, who were delegated as representatives of the grand burghers (German: Notabelnabgeordneter) and not contesting an election by the burghers.
  In the German Revolution of 1918–19 the workers' and soldiers' councils put the city administrations under their control ending the reign of the Hanseaten also in Hamburg.
caption: Johann Christian Jauch
  (1765–1855)
  Grand Burgher of the
   Free and Hanseatic City
   of Hamburg
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