Adolph Godeffroy

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Adolph Godeffroy , Carte Cabinet , E. Bieber , Hamburg around 1890

Adolph Godeffroy (born November 28, 1814 in Hamburg ; † December 13, 1893 there ) was a Hamburg merchant, member of the Hamburg Parliament , co-founder of Hapag and its first director.

Godeffroy around 1860

Life

Adolph Godeffroy attended the Citizens' School of the Katharineum in Lübeck and at times a school in Switzerland . He made his commercial training at Parish & Co . The owner Richard Parish (1776-1860) was married to Susanne Godeffroy, daughter of Peter Godeffroy , a brother of his grandfather. Adolph was born in 1837 by his father Johan Cesar Godeffroy (1781–1845) for his father's company Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son sent to Havana to set up a branch there under the name Godeffroy & Son . There he was mainly involved in buying sugar and coffee . He worked in Cuba until his father's death in 1845 and then returned to Hamburg. His older brother Cesar (1813–1885) had already taken over the management of his father's company. His younger brother Gustav (1817–1893) had also become a partner in the company. Adolph Godeffroy obtained in 1845 for Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn procuration, but did not become a partner.

Through his experiences in America, Adolph Godeffroy realized that there was a need for regular shipping connections to North America . Therefore, together with other Hamburg merchants, on May 27, 1847 he founded the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft . He was elected its first director and ran the company for the next 33 years.

Adolph Godeffroy was married to his second cousin Antonine Emelie Godeffroy (1816–1877) for the first time. In 1879 he married the widow Harriet Milberg, b. Schröder (1836–1899), a daughter of Johann Heinrich Schröder .

He worked for several years as a deacon of the French Reformed congregation in Hamburg.

In the civil military he was a member of the cavalry , from July 7, 1853 as first lieutenant, in 1855 as Rittmeister .

From 1852 Adolph Godeffroy was a member of the Commerzdeputation , which he headed as President in 1858. In addition, he volunteered in various deputations. From 1859 to 1867 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Adolph Godeffroy was president of the Hamburg racing club from 1854 to 1868.

The grave of Adolph Godeffroy is today in the old Niendorf cemetery in Hamburg. However, he was reburied from another cemetery.

literature

  • Claus Gossler: Godeffroy, Adolph . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 136-138 .
  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 , p. 41, Hamburg 1984
  • Kurt Himer, 75 years of the Hamburg-America line. Part 1: Adolph Godeffroy and his successors until 1886. Gustav Petermann, Hamburg 1922
  • Ernst Baasch: The Association for Freedom of Commerce in Hamburg 1848–1868 , in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 24, Johann August Meissner, Hamburg 1921, p. 32 ff., (Re. A. Godeffroy's activities in the “Association for Freedom of Commerce ", Online )

Representations

  • Adolph Godeffroy (half figure to the right) by E. Piani (?) Oil on canvas, 87.2 × 68.9 cm, 1839, in Gisela Jaacks : Faces and Personalities , Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, 1992, p. 168.
  • Adolph Godeffroy (knee to right) by Carl Johann Lasch (1822–1888), oil on canvas, 121.7 × 101.7 cm, 1882, in Gisela Jaacks, Faces and Personalities , Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, 1992, p 143.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Officier-Wahlen in Bürger-Militair . In: Hamburger Nachrichten , August 2, 1853, page 3
  2. ↑ German Gender Book, Volume 27 (Hamburger Volume 5), 1914, p. 29
  3. ↑ Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer: Der Friedhofsführer - Walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Godeffroy, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdHB, businessman and director of HAPAG
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1893
Place of death Hamburg