She offersn on one CdV photo around1865 from Hanover.

Motive: Woman with a hood.

It is a matter of Sophie Damcke, b. Stechan (*1810), sister ofRevolutionary, master carpenter, local politician, publisher and newspaper editor, pioneer of the labor movement and entrepreneurLudwig Stechan (1816-1875) and sister-in-law the composer, pianist, conductor, music educator and critic as well as newspaper correspondent Berthold Damcke (1812-1875).

Inscribed on the back: "Sophie Stechan, married. Damke, eldest sister of Johann Friedrich Stechan."

Sophia Elisabeth Damcke, b. Stechan was born on the 14th. May 1810 in Hanover as the daughter of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Stechan and Dorothee, née. Detmering born. At the 14th. In October 1838 she married the royal copyist in Hanover. Landdrostei Georg Philipp Damcke (* 18. February 1809 in Hanover as the son of the freight forwarder Berthold Christian Damcke and Friederike, née. Bartels, died. 20. February 1865 in Hanover as Landdrosteikanzlist), a brother of the composer, pianist, conductor, music educator and critic and newspaper correspondent Berthold Damcke (1812-1875).

Her brother Johann Friedrich Stechan, mentioned on the back of the photo, is listed in the 1870 Hanover address book as “brewing manager”. JF Stechan was born around 1822 in Hanover as the son of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Stechan. In 1849 he took the civic oath as a master goldsmith in Hanover. From 1857 to 1866 he was head of the office, then resigned from his position and became brewery manager.

Photographer: Friedrich Wunder (1815-1893), the first and most famous photographer in Hanover.

Format (cardboard): 10.3 x 6.2 cm.

Condition: thin cardboard bent; ins, a bit stained, please also note the pictures!

SW: FM white bag

About her brother Ludwig Stechan, her brother-in-law Berthold Damcke and the photographer Friedrich Wunder, (source: wikipedia):

Gottfried Ludwig Stechan (*26. January 1816 in Hanover; † 17. August 1875 in Edinburgh) was a German master carpenter, local politician, publisher and newspaper editor, pioneer of the labor movement and entrepreneur. The revolutionary was also a co-founder of the North German Workers' Association.

Life: Born in 1816 as the son of the Hanoverian master carpenter Johann Friedrich Stechan in the Kingdom of Hanover, Ludwig Stechan graduated from the age of 14. He was apprenticed to his father until 1833, before he went on a journey. After hiking in Switzerland, Stechan went to France and stayed in Paris in 1836 and 1837, where he came into contact with the ideas of early socialism through Theodor Schuster and Jacob Venedey. While still in Paris, Stechan became a member of "the 'Association of the Outlaws', which emerged from the 'Association of the Righteous' in 1836". At the beginning of 1837 he returned to Hanover because he had been required to serve in the army in 1836.

Meanwhile, after the end of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, Stechan's birthplace became the residence of King Ernst August, who, in the year of his entry into Hanover in 1837, passed the "Basic Law for the Kingdom of Hanover" on January 1, 1837, which had previously been passed without his consent. November 1837 had it repealed.

Ludwig Stechan - after previously traveling to London - returned to this city of Hanover, where industrialization had begun not only in the then suburb of Linden under Georg Egestorff and with the construction of the first Hanover railway in 1843, in 1840, the same year as The League of the Righteous and the League of Outlaws, which had previously been founded in Paris, had formed a league of Germans. These secret, “criminal” connections were the subject of police investigations. After investigations by the Hanover Criminal Police Office, he was arrested on January 19th. Arrested initially on September 19, 1840. He was released on April 8, 1841 after paying bail, and about a year later on April 8th. He was arrested again in April 1842 and, after a total of one and a half years in custody, was finally sentenced to four weeks in prison. His comrades-in-arms from “Hannover”, who had also previously been in Paris, were the mechanic “Neuber” and the bookbinder Hartmann from Hanover, the carpenters Brandes from Hildesheim and Fuhrke from Buchholz near Hanover. As “agents or recruiters” they were sentenced to long prison or workhouse sentences. However, Stechan was only able to convict the accused on the basis of a secondary point, namely the “dissemination of seditious writings”.

After his release, Ludwig Stechan acquired Hanover citizenship in 1844. He was actively involved in the book printing reading association founded by his friend Friedrich Stegen on January 1st. The workers' association in Hanover, which emerged in April 1848, was accepted into the Communist League in August 1850 as a member of Peter Gerhard Roeser.

After Ludwig Stechan was elected to the citizens' council by the citizens of Hanover at the end of 1849 and beginning of 1850, he was elected vice president in February 1850 in Leipzig during the General German Workers' Brotherhood. From April 1850 to the beginning of October 1850, Stechan was “responsible for the editorial team” and Wenzel Kohlweck was editor in Hanover, previously of the magazine “Concordia, Magazine of the Cigar Workers” published in Leipzig.

The following year Stechan was from the 4th. January to 28th June 1851 Publisher and editor of the magazine Deutsche Arbeiterhalle, the organ of the “North German Workers' Association”, in which Stechan's contributions were strongly influenced by Marxism. The paper was published by “Verlag Pockwitz”. After Stechan on the 7th He was arrested again in June 1851,Adolf Mensching published the last three issues of the magazine, which were then also distributed in the Kingdom of Prussia. When Peter Nothjung was arrested in 1851, addresses of “agents or advertisers” were found “which extended across the whole of Germany,” including the address of Ludwig Stechan.

On the 11th Stechan was arrested on July 9, 1851. In September 1851 he fled to London, where in January 1852 he and Georg Lochner were elected president of the New Workers' Association, which he had co-founded.[16] As such, he worked sporadically with Karl Marx, who commented on Stechan as follows: "Stechan has something guild-bourgeois solid and petty-masterly wavering about him, but he is capable of education and has great influence in the north of Germany."

At the age of around 40, Ludwig Stechan ended his active involvement in the labor movement when he moved to Edinburgh at the end of 1855 and at the beginning of 1856 and opened a carpentry shop and a tobacco shop there.

After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, Stechan visited the city of Hanover for the first time in 1868 and again in 1871, the year the German Empire was proclaimed. There he appeared as a celebrated speaker at the 25th foundation festival of the Hanover Workers' Association.

Publications

L. St., carpenter: On the distribution of labor among the craftsmen. In the workshop. A monthly magazine for craftsmen. Editor: Georg Schirges. Verlags-Comptoir, Hamburg 1846, issue 4, pp. 171–174.

The Hanoverian townspeople, in relation to the new trade regulations. In the workshop. Hamburg 1847, pp. 103–106.

L. St.: The French workers and the German journeyman. In the workshop. Hamburg 1847, pp. 107–109.

About the Monday party for the journeymen carpenters in Hanover. In the workshop. Hamburg 1847, pp. 133–135.

L. St.: Technical. In the workshop. Hamburg 1847, pp. 143–149.

L. Stechan: The workers' association. In: Annual report of the Hanover Workers' Association. For the 5th Foundation festivals of the association ed. from the board of directors of the same. Hanover 1850, p. 14 ff.

Social letters. In: German Workers' Hall. No. 8 of 22. February 1851.

The situation of refugees in London. In: German Workers' Hall. No. 11 of 15. March 1851.

The revolutionary celebration of social democracy. In: German Workers' Hall. No. 11 of 15. March 1851.

Berthold Damcke (*6. February 1812 in Hanover; † 15. February 1875 in Paris) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, music educator and critic and newspaper correspondent.

Life: Berthold Damcke was born in Hanover during the so-called “French period”. He first studied theology and later music in Frankfurt am Main as a student of Aloys Schmitt[1] - who was appointed court organist and chamber musician to Duke Adolph of Cambridge in Hanover in 1826 - and of Ferdinand Ries. In 1834, Damcke joined the Royal Hanover Court Orchestra in his hometown “[…] probably for a short time” as a viola player, which at the time still performed in the palace opera house in the east wing of the Leine Castle. However, he continued to study playing the piano and organ and also composed his first choral works.

Damcke later moved to Kreuznach, where he conducted the local music club and the Liedertafel and wrote the oratorio Deborah. In 1837 Damcke went to Potsdam, where he conducted the local Philharmonic Society and led the choir for opera music, with whom he performed his Christmas Oratorio in 1840 and the 23rd in 1841. Psalm and an Ave Maria performed. Also in 1841, Berthold Damcke took over the position of conductor in Königsberg, where his opera Käthchen von Heilbronn was premiered there in 1845.

In 1845 Damcke went to St. Petersburg as a piano teacher, where he also developed a wealth of work as a sensitive music critic and wrote detailed articles (under the code "24") for the German-language St. Petersburgische Zeitung (founded in 1727). In 1855 he moved to Brussels. From 1859 Damcke lived and worked in Paris, where he worked as a correspondent for various German and Russian magazines. He also worked as a teacher at the Conservatoire. Berthold Damcke was friends with Hector Berlioz, whom he supported and whom he had already met in 1847 on the occasion of his guest performance in St. Petersburg. In Paris he also taught the later patron Fanny Pelletan, who conceptually developed the complete edition of the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck suggested by Berlioz and presented its first three volumes, on which Damcke worked.

Friedrich Karl Wunder (*27. October 1815 in Bayreuth; † 30. December 1893 in Hanover) was a German lithographer and the first and most famous photographer in Hanover in the 19th century. Century. He left behind numerous portraits of well-known personalities and important topographical image documents on Hanover's city history.

During his lifetime he was known as “Nestor the Elder”.he German photographer"

Family: Friedrich Karl Wunder's grandfather was Friedrich Wilhelm Wunder (1742–1828), a well-known painter, draftsman and natural scientist. His father Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wunder (1778–1842) was “chamber registrar and overseer of the natural history collection” at the Margrave's court in Bayreuth. He was also probably a lawyer, as he is also referred to as “accounts commissioner and district judge in Müncheberg” in the family tree.

With his wife Sophie Luise Margarete, the daughter of the lithographer, printer and publisher Friedrich Baumgarte, whom he married in 1842, Friedrich Wunder had six children: The first to arrive were the two twin daughters Ida and Dora Wunder (* 24. August 1842 in Hanover). The second-born son Otto Wunder (1844–1921) later opened his own photo studio in Hanover; first in 1870 on Schillerstrasse, most recently on Königstrasse. With Carl Ludolph Ferdinand Wunder came on the 8th. Another son was born in November 1849, who also became a photographer. The son Karl Friedrich Wunder took over his father's business in 1875 and had the Wunder House built in 1878/79, a new residential and commercial building on Friedrichstrasse (today: Friedrichswall). The youngest son Hermann Wunder (* 1853) also became a photographer and emigrated to Philadelphia at the age of 20.

Life: Little is known about Friedrich Wunder's childhood; one assumes training with an artistic focus. He probably completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer, because from 1835 he worked as such in Baumgart's printing company. After its owner G. Fr. After Baumgarte died, Friedrich Wunder took over management of the company in 1840,

On the 21st November 1841, Friedrich Wunder acquired civil rights in the city of Hanover and left on November 22nd. In January 1842 she married Louise Baumgarte.

From 1841, Wunder made his first attempts in the field of daguerreotypes and in 1844 opened a photographic studio in a print shop in the old town (Marktstrasse 440, changed house number from 1845: No. 24). In 1846 he printed the “Plan of the Royal Residence City of Hanover” by Andreas Christoph Friedrich Sohnrey with the newly built main train station and the Ernst August City.

At 6. In January 1852, Wunder joined the Johannis Freemason Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bear in the Orient of Hanover. In 1854, Wunder took part in the industrial exhibition in the Glass Palace in Munich. In 1856 Wunder acquired the house Billet No. 3 on Neuer Weg. In 1859 the printing company was sold.

Shortly after the Berlin Photographic Association was founded in 1863, Wunder was a member from 1864 to 1868. In 1868 he received a medal for his work, which he had submitted to the second exhibition of photographic works in Hamburg.

Friedrich Wunder and his wife were buried in a family grave in the Engesohder cemetery that had been purchased in 1869, later followed by their sons Karl and Otto.Werke

His most famous images include:

a daguerreotype by the 16-year-old Wilhelm Busch from 1848 (original in the possession of the German Museum for Caricature and Drawing Art Wilhelm Busch) in Hanover

two business card portraits of Karl Marx from 1867. One, as Marx wrote, “full-faced”, the other a profile shot. Both photographs were taken at the end of April 1867, when Marx read the first proof sheets of Capital with his friends, the gynecologist Louis Kugelmann and his wife Gertrud Kugelmann, in Hanover.

a photograph by Louis Kugelmann.

two photos by Franziska Kugelmann that were long mistaken for photos of Karl Marx's daughter Jenny.

Awards

In 1868, Friedrich Wunder received the bronze medal at a photo exhibition in Hamburg.