August Dubbers

Johann Gerhard August Dubbers , also J. G. August Dubbers , (born October 19, 1873 , † December 11, 1959 ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur . He was the owner of the Bremen commercial forwarding company JH Bachmann and the Danish honorary consul in Bremen.

biography

The former headquarters of JH Bachmann an der Schlachte in Bremen (right, created in 1913, reconstruction in 1948)

Dubbers belonged to the Bremen merchant family Bachmann / Dubbers, which has been owned by the Bremen forwarding and trading company J.H. since the company was founded in 1775. Bachmann (JHB) was. In Bremen he married Dora Frieda Lahusen (1888–1956) on February 5, 1918, who came from the Bremen merchant family Lahusen.

From 1909, in the fourth generation, he was the sole owner of the freight forwarding and wine trading company JH Bachmann and also took over the management of the company for almost five decades, until 1937 in sole management. In the early days of his company ownership, among other things, he built his own office building on the Bremen Schlachte in 1913, which Dubbers had built for JHB according to plans by the Berlin architects Bielenberg & Moser (see also The Bachmann House on the Bremer Schlachte ), as well as After the First World War, the company started over from “the smallest of beginnings”.

During the First World War was Dubbers at several farms in the German-occupied Belgium as official receiver used, as with the company Filature & Filteries Réunies (in Brussels and Alost ), Compagnie Fermière de l'établissement thermal de Vichy and North British Rubber & Co. (both in Brussels) and at Filterie de Buggenhout (in Buggenhout ).

In 1937 his nephew, the Bremen freight forwarder Eduard Nebelthau (1902–1971), became a partner in the family company JH Bachmann and joined the company management alongside Dubbers. Nebelthau had completed a commercial apprenticeship in his uncle's company from 1921, after which he undertook several study trips abroad and then started in 1931 as an authorized signatory at JHB. Under their joint management “the company survived the losses during the Second World War and successfully mastered the reconstruction in the post-war period ”. Among other things, in 1948 the headquarters on the Schlachte, which had been destroyed in the war in air raids, were rebuilt in its old form, the (re) commissioning of most of the facilities at all seaport locations and the expansion of the company into an international forwarding company. In 1950, Dubbers and Nebelthau entered the growing airfreight business with the establishment of JH Bachmann Luftfracht GmbH .

Further memberships and offices

Sign of the Danish consulate at the entrance portal of the "Bachmann House" in Bremen. The old company name JH Bachmann is still above the portal . (2011)

Dubbers was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1906 to 1911 . He was later appointed Danish Honorary Consul or Consul General in Bremen. The Danish consulate in Bremen was (and is) located in the Bremer Kontorhaus of the commercial forwarding company JH Bachmann, whose owner family "Dubbers" has traditionally been the consular representation of Denmark in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen since 1865 . The consular district of Dubbers extended in addition to Bremen with its then national territory and the Weser ports also to the Oldenburg region of Oldenburg .

Among other things, he was a member of the board of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and of various supervisory boards , such as at DDG “Hansa” and other shipping companies , Deschimag and Norddeutsche Kreditbank . In addition, Dubbers was a member of the board of directors of "Weserflug" . After the Second World War he was a member and at times also chairman of the supervisory board of Bremer Großwerft AG Weser . In 1949 he resigned from all offices.

Further developments

After Dubbers' death, his nephew Eduard Nebelthau continued to run the JH Bachmann company alone. Later the daughter of August and Dora Dubbers, the clerk Rita Dubbers-Albrecht (born December 15, 1928 in Bremen), joined the company and took over the management of the company in the sixth generation. The family business was sold by her in 1996, continued the traditional company name under changing owners until the end of 2006 and was merged with the Danish logistics group DSV A / S in 2006/07 .

The Kunsthalle Bremen received a painting by the French painter and representative of Symbolism , Maurice Denis ( Girl with Doll , 1896) from the Dubbers legacy .

Honors

In 2002 , August-Dubbers-Strasse in the Bremen- Neustadt district was named after him in Bremen .

literature

• Farewell to Consul General August Dubbers. In: Weserlotse. Bremen Economic and Port Service , Volume 13, 1960, No. 1, Guardian, ISSN  0043-2857 , p. 22.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Information on JH Bachmann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Employee and customer magazine Imperial News , No. 1/2000, pp. 4–9; PDF file, 3.94 MB, accessed June 5, 2011.  
2. ^ Local family books - Bremen and Vegesack. In: ortsfamilienbuecher.de. Retrieved July 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Peter Kuckuk (ed.): Bremen large shipyards in the Third Reich. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-86108-203-9 , pp. 44, 112 ( contributions to the social history of Bremen , vol. 15; online at Google books ).
4. ↑ Charles Henry Huberich (ed.): German legislation for the occupied territories of Belgium. Official texts, Volume 4. Verlag M. Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1916, pp. 33, 78 (English, German; Belgium. Territory under German occupation, 1914-1918 ; online at Google books).
5. ↑ Duitsche wetgeving in het gebied bezette of Belgium. Issues 56–89. Verlag M. Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1916, p. 2 (Dutch, German, French; Belgium. Territory under German occupation, 1914-1918 ; online at Google books).
6. ↑ The namesake ( memento of the original from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the Nebelthau-Gymnasium Friedehorst Foundation , Bremen; Retrieved June 5, 2011.  
7. ↑ Notes: The Danish consulate in Bremen is still located in the former office building of the former freight forwarding and trading company JH Bachmann on the Bremen Schlachte ; The acting Danish honorary consul has been the Bremen entrepreneur Eduard Dubbers-Albrecht since 2000 as consular successor to his mother, Rita Dubbers-Albrecht, who - as the daughter of August Dubbers - had represented the Kingdom of Denmark since 1972, succeeding Eduard Nebelthau .
   See press release of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on July 6, 2000; Retrieved June 5, 2011.
8. ^ Reich Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Handbook for the German Reich 1936. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1936, p. 77 ( online at Google books).
9. ^ Historical Society of Bremen , Bremen State Archives (ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Bremen 1969, p. 122. (Quoted from: Peter Müller: Seebeckwerft 1933–1945 →  information on August Dubbers ( Memento from June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )) [(see, inter alia, Notes, No. 111) ]. On: Internet platform Werften & Stadtgeschichte Bremerhaven .
10. ↑ Peter Kuckuk (ed.): The AG "Weser" in the post-war period (1945–1953). Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2005, ISBN 3-86108-546-1 , pp. 13, 124, 127 ( contributions to the social history of Bremen , vol. 24; online at Google books).
11. ↑ Corinna Laubach: "For us, Bremen is the center of the world" . In: Die Welt from August 17, 2000; Retrieved June 5, 2011.
12. ↑ Collection. List of paintings from C to D →  August Denis ( Memento of October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). On: website of the Kunsthalle Bremen ; Retrieved June 5, 2011.