Anton Daniel Albers
Anton Daniel Albers (born April 30, 1774 in Bremen ; † February 9, 1841 there ) was a businessman and Senator from Bremen .
biography
Albers was the son of the merchant Dietrich Albers (1745–1809) and Catharina Dorothea Albers, b. Lürmann. The Albers family had lived in Bremen since 1738:
he was married to the merchant's daughter Margarethe Marie Runge (1777–1812); both had six children. In 1814 he married the pastor's daughter Metta Rebecca Lürmann; they too had six children.
He completed a business apprenticeship and then worked in Spain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland from 1794 to 1800. In 1800 he took over his father's trading company for linen and yarn. In 1807 he became an honorary deacon and builder at the Bremen Cathedral . In 1816 he became a senior man (spokesman for the merchants).
In 1825 he succeeded Bremen Senator . Johann Mathias Lameyer (1752-1825). He left office on his death. His successor was the businessman Arnold Duckwitz (1802-1881). The Senator Georg Wilhelm Albers (1800–1876) was his nephew.
See also
literature
- Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albers, Anton Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen businessman and senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1841 |
| Place of death | Bremen |