Abraham Ludwig Muhl

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Abraham Ludwig Muhl (born January 5, 1768 in Danzig , Polish Prussia , † November 26, 1835 in Uhlkau near Danzig, Province of Prussia ) was a German merchant and senator in Danzig.

Life

The mother Johanna

On his father's side, Abraham Muhl came from a German merchant family who immigrated to Danzig in 1717. The father Friedrich Muhl was a wealthy businessman and councilor, the mother Johanna Florentine was the daughter of the Polish priest and author Paul Świetlicki (Schwidlitzki). Abraham Muhl attended a business school in Hamburg , where his ancestors lived, from 1782 to 1788 and then worked in his father's company in Danzig.

After his death in 1797 he took over the company and became one of the most influential personalities in the city. In 1799 he took part in a group of shareholders around Jacob Kabrun , which financed the construction of the new theater on the Kohlenmarkt .

In 1808 Muhl became a senator in Danzig after it became a free city under French rule. That year he was a member of the delegation in Hamburg that negotiated the city's reparation payments to Napoleon.

Abraham Muhl traded mainly in grain and wine. He owned two merchant ships as well as some houses and goods in and around Gdansk. In 1813, a considerable part of its holdings on the Speicherinsel burned up due to acts of war.

Abraham Muhl took over a large part of the French claims for compensation from Danzig. After the city came back under Prussian sovereignty in 1814, he became a member of the Prussian Chamber of Commerce.

In 1819 the trading company AL Muhl & Co. went bankrupt. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer , his mother Johanna and other believers lost a considerable part of their invested fortune.

Abraham Muhl retired to his estate in Uhlkau , where he died in 1835.

literature

  • John Muhl : The Senator Abraham Ludwig Muhl. In: Communications of the West Prussian History Association. 14. 1915. pp. 8-16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Muhl : The register of Senator Abraham Ludwig Muhl (1782–1789). In: Communications of the West Prussian History Association. 14, 1915, pp. 73-76.
  2. ^ John Muhl: The Danzig councilor Friedrich Muhl 1732-1797. In: Communications of the West Prussian History Association. 17, 1918, pp. 61-67.
  3. ^ Jerzy Marian Michalak: Contributions to the music and theater history of Danzig from the 17th to the 20th century. Berlin 2012. p. 85
  4. ^ Karlheinz Muscheler: The Schopenhauer-Marquet trials and Prussian law. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1996. p. 5 f.
personal data
SURNAME Muhl, Abraham Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhl, Abraham (short form); AL Muhl & Co. (company name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and senator in Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdansk , Polish Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1835
Place of death Uhlkau near Danzig, Province of Prussia