Abraham Nottebohm

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Abraham Nottebohm

Johann Abraham Nottebohm (born August 25, 1748 in Lippstadt , † August 7, 1814 in Brackwede ) was a German wholesale merchant and operator of a copper hammer.

Life

Nottebohm was the son of the doctor and electoral Mainz physician Johann Dietrich Nottebohm (1685–1758) and attended the French Gardelange commercial school in Hanau . Then did a commercial apprenticeship at the Metzler bank in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked as an employee in the Netherlands . He went into business for himself with another partner and founded the trading house Jahn Kruse & Co., based in Amsterdam .

In 1773 he married Johanna Eleonore (1754–1823), the daughter of the copper industrialist Johann Theodor Möller (1705–1763). With this he had three sons. Abraham (1783–1866) was a merchant in Rotterdam , Wilhelm (1787–1871) was the Danish consul general and Carl (1798–1870) was a merchant in Hamburg .

After Möller's death, Nottebohm also took over the management of the copper hammer near Brackwede. He also held the majority of the shares. The family initially continued to live mainly in Amsterdam. The copper hammer was not very profitable, so wholesale was the most important part of Nottebohm's business. He traded all kinds of goods, but especially linen from Bielefeld . His business relationships extended to North America and Asia. In addition, Nottebohm began importing copper and refined sugar from England in 1780. Nottebohm was highly regarded in the international business world and was considered creditworthy. He also began to get into the banking business and granted loans to the population around Bielefeld. He sold his shares in the copper hammer in 1806 to his brother-in-law and son-in-law Theodor Adolf Möller (1762–1847). He focused on trade with the Orient and Austria.

Nottebohm had a high reputation in the Brackwede region. During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia , he was therefore from 1808 to 1811 a member of the electoral college of the Weser Department and, as a landowner, between 1808 and 1813, a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia .

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SURNAME Nottebohm, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nottebohm, Johann Abraham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wholesale merchant and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1814
Place of death Brackwede