Albert Schumacher (Consul)

Albert Schumacher (born January 23, 1802 in Bremen , † June 26, 1871 in Baltimore ) was a German / American businessman and from 1839 Consul General of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Baltimore.

biography

Schumacher was the son of a Bremen lawyer, probably Dr. jur. Heinrich Gerhard Schumacher (1763–1845) and Metta Lucia Löning (1776–1818) and consequently the Mayor of Bremen Isak Hermann Albrecht Schumacher (1780–1853) was his uncle. In other sources, the lawyer Gottfried Schumacher is named as the father. Around 1819 he worked as a seaman for the shipping company HH Meier & Co in Bremen. Around 1825 he was employed as an authorized signatory at the von Heineken company in Bremen. The company sent GA Heineken to Boston and Baltimore as their representative; his friend Schumacher followed him and he became his partner.

He first came to New York City in 1826 , then drove a schooner to Veracruz , Mexico on business in 1827 , before moving to Baltimore. There he was very successful as a businessman. In 1839 Bremen and Hamburg appointed him consul general for Maryland in Baltimore. He was in the United States in 1841 president of the German Society of Maryland, and in 1846 a member of the Chamber of Commerce ( Chamber of Commerce ) in Baltimore and was temporarily president of the Chamber of Commerce. From 1858 he was an agent of the Bremen shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd ; In 1859, together with his friend and Lloyd founder Hermann Henrich Meier ( H. H. Meier ), he organized the establishment of a Bremerhaven -Baltimore shipping line with a direct connection to the railroad. He was a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and several local banks. He was also president of the influential church of Zion and its school.
He didn't get married.

Honors

In 1859 he became an honorary citizen of Bremen .

Literature, sources

Albert B. Faust: The Germanness in the United States: In its meaning for American culture. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1912, p. 96.

Individual evidence

^ Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environds), Kentucky, and other States . In: German-American Genealogical Research , Monograph No. 20, Clearfield Company, Baltimore 2004.
^ Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, p. 504, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .
^ Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environds), Kentucky, and other States . In: German-American Genealogical Research , Monograph No. 20, Clearfield Company, Baltimore 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Schumacher, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American businessman, honorary citizen of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1871
Place of death	Baltimore

[1] Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environds), Kentucky, and other States . In: German-American Genealogical Research , Monograph No. 20, Clearfield Company, Baltimore 2004.

[2] Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, p. 504, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .

[3] Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environds), Kentucky, and other States . In: German-American Genealogical Research , Monograph No. 20, Clearfield Company, Baltimore 2004.