Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller
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First Mayor of Hamburg and President of the Hamburg Senate |
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In office 1 January 1863 – 31 December 1864 |
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| Preceded by | Friedrich Sieveking |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Sieveking |
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In office 1 January 1866 – 31 December 1867 |
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| Preceded by | Friedrich Sieveking |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Sieveking |
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In office 1 January 1870 – 31 December 1870 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer |
| Succeeded by | Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer |
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In office 1 January 1873 – 31 December 1873 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Goßler |
| Second Mayor of Hamburg | |
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In office 1 January 1869 – 31 December 1869 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Goßler |
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In office 1 January 1872 – 31 December 1872 |
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| Preceded by | Hermann Goßler |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Goßler |
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In office 1 January 1875 – 31 December 1875 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Weber |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 January 1805 Hamburg |
| Died |
10 October 1876 (aged 71) Hamburg |
| Nationality |
 German
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| Political party | Nonpartisan |
| Alma mater |
Ruperto Carola Georgia Augusta |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller (21 January 1805 in Hamburg – 10 October 1876 in Hamburg) was a jurist, senator and First Mayor of Hamburg and head of state from 1863 to 1864; 1866 to 1867; 1870 to 1873.
The Haller family was one of the 50 Jewish families expelled from Vienna whom the Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg (reign 1640–1688) granted asylum in his realm. The family first settled in Frederick William's Duchy of Magdeburg in the city of Halle upon Saale, whence it adopted its surname. Ferdinand Haller's grandfather Joseph Benjamin Haller died in Halle in 1772. Ferdinand Haller's father later moved to Hamburg.
Ferdinand Haller's parents were Blümchen Gottschalk from Hanover and Mendel Joseph Haller (1770–1852), who was technically a Schutzjude under the more liberal Danish rule in Holsteinian Altona, allowing them to practically work and live in adjacent, but more restrictive Hamburg.
In 1794 Mendel Joseph Haller founded a banking and trading company in Hamburg, from which in 1797 the Bank Haller, Söhle & Co. developed. Ferdinand's elder sister Auguste (1799–1883) married Johann Christian Söhle (1801–1871), the son of their father's partner in the bank. Blümchen Gottschalk's sister Amalie (1777–1838) was married to Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz, court banker of Alexander I of Russia. Mendel Joseph Haller's niece Philippine Haller (1822–1892) was married to the wealthy cotton merchant Louis Liebermann, parents of the painter Max Liebermann.
In early 1805 the elders of Altona's Ashkenazi kehilla sued Haller's father at Altona's Beit Din for not having had Ferdinand Haller circumcised. The Beit Din inflicted the ḥērem on Mendel Joseph Haller and, as was the law, prompted the secular authorities to execute that ban.
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