Adolf Ahlers
Nicolaus Emil Hermann Adolf Ahlers (* 1864 in Hamburg ; † 1943 there ) was a German businessman and honorary consul .
Ahlers was initially a businessman in the leather industry in Germany.
He became a naturalized British citizen in 1905 and three of his 14 children were born in Sunderland. Ahlers ran a leather goods store on St. Thomas Street in Sunderland .
Ahlers, meanwhile a British citizen, was German honorary consul in Sunderland at the beginning of the First World War and was sentenced to death in the first instance for high treason against the British crown because at the beginning of the First World War he got two Germans who were compulsory military service on neutral ships passage home had paid. He was acquitted on appeal, but then continued to be detained. His wife took her own life because of these events. Ahlers returned to Germany in 1919.
The case attracted international attention, even the New York Times and Reuters reported on it.
One son was the politician Conrad Ahlers .
Web links
- biography
- Newspaper article about Adolf Ahlers in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Article in the mirror
- "The homecoming of a German martyr", in Hamburg Foreign Gazette No. 223 of May 3, 1919
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b sunderlandecho.com , accessed August 4, 2016.
- ^ Official war dispatches based on reports from the Wolff Telegr.bureau , 1915.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahlers, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahlers, Nicolaus Emil Hermann Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and honorary consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |