Alexander Kähler (entrepreneur)

Alexander Kähler (born May 17, 1832 in Hamburg , † October 10, 1907 in Wilstorf ) was an entrepreneur, military and Hamburg senator.

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Alexander Kähler family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Kähler came from a wealthy family; his father, a merchant of the same name, came from Altona. Kähler's father had acquired the Hohenbuchen estate (today in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel ) in 1849 , where he operated an oil mill and began producing soap .

Kähler himself founded the Alexander Kähler company in 1857 , which ran the oil refinery and production of soap on the territory of Hamburg. Kähler belonged to the civil military and in 1866 was major of the general staff . In 1870 he became a judge at the lower court . The Hamburg Parliament belonged to Kähler since 1871, he joined there the Group of privileges. He took on a number of offices, was President of the Upper Elbe Arbitration Court in 1884 , previously President of the Seemannskasse ; he also worked on the cholera commission. Kähler was at times a member of the finance deputation and the deputation for trade and shipping. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

On August 24, 1888, Kähler left the citizenry because he was elected to the Senate . There, too, he was active in various deputations, especially in the social and ecclesiastical field. For example, he was also a member of a Senate Commission that was supposed to reach a compromise proposal in 1896 to resolve the negotiations between striking dockworkers and entrepreneurs during the Hamburg dockworkers strike in 1896/97 . For reasons of age, Kähler left the Senate on July 30, 1907; his successor was Adolf Leberecht Strack . Kähler died in the Senatorium of Dr. Pfannkuch in Wilsdorf suffered from pneumonia and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grid square Q 25 (north of the water tower ).

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Obituary in Hamburg Foreign Gazette No. 230 of October 11, 1907

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel - Portrait of a district. 2003, p. 102.
^ With Frank M. Hintz: Planning and financing of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg. Publication of the Hamburg working group for regional history (HAR) Vol. 7, 2000, p. 112: it is described that Kähler operated a soap factory in the Dutch row in the demolition area (warehouse district), this before 1888. In his obituary 1907 there is the note: originally Owner of the soap factory and oil refinery on Winterhuder Weg , later the GHG Binder company .

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SURNAME	Kähler, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1907
Place of death	Hamburg-Wilstorf

[1] Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel - Portrait of a district. 2003, p. 102.

[2] With Frank M. Hintz: Planning and financing of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg. Publication of the Hamburg working group for regional history (HAR) Vol. 7, 2000, p. 112: it is described that Kähler operated a soap factory in the Dutch row in the demolition area (warehouse district), this before 1888. In his obituary 1907 there is the note: originally Owner of the soap factory and oil refinery on Winterhuder Weg , later the GHG Binder company .