August Heinrich Peter Wohlert

August Heinrich Peter Wohlert (born May 8, 1824 in Lübeck ; † March 1, 1900 there ) was a German merchant and member of the Lübeck citizenship.

Life

Engelsgrube 58, residential and commercial building from August Heinrich Peter Wohlert

Wohlert came from a Lübeck merchant family who had been based in Engelsgrube 58 (old house number: lower Engelsgrube MMQ 623), an old brewery, and traded in Scandinavia since 1781 .

In 1838 he joined Schlick & Eckmann's business as an apprentice , owned by Consul Weber. He later worked for the business as a clerk and as a traveling agent. In 1853 he acquired the iron and haberdashery dealership from Grotjan & Co. , which he managed under the company Grotjan & Co. successor until 1869 together with HW Dittmer and then as sole owner. In 1846 he was in St. Petersburg , later he occasionally undertook short trips through Germany and as far as Switzerland. From 1847 on, his business trips took him almost every year to Denmark , where he exported iron and steel goods from the Ruhr area .

In 1853 he was accepted into the College of Skåne drivers; in the same year he became a founding member of the Lübeck merchants' association. Together with other merchants, he petitioned the Senate early on for Lübeck to join the German Customs Union , which took place on August 11, 1868.

In 1868 Wohlert was elected to the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce , which at that time formed the executive board of the merchants' association. He was a member of it for a total of 24 years: from 1868 to 1873, 1876 to 1881, 1885 to 1890 and 1893 to 1898 and was active in various committees, such as the Treasury Committee, the Committees for Bureau, Library and Archive, for the Dröge , the Holzwrake, the annual report, the administration of the wills and drafts and the customs matters, in the commissions for the establishment of a merchant widow's cash register, for the consultation of the export statistics and from 1877 to 1881 as the second deputy of the chairman.

From 1869 to 1881 Wohlert was a member of the Lübeck citizenship and was also a member of the citizens' committee from 1874 to 1876 . He was a commoner deputy at the Department of indirect taxes from 1872 to parish council member of St. Jakobi -Kirchengemeinde, 1876 to a member of the building deputation, 1885 at the Central-arms-deputation from 1893 to the head of the of Brömbsen wills (Carstens Armengang, Illhorns Armengang, Krusen Armengang) and from 1894 to the savings and loan fund .

He was married to Berta, b. Deecke (1834–1902), a daughter of Ernst Deecke , sister of Wilhelm Deecke and half-sister of Hermann Deecke . The couple had two sons and two daughters, including the librarian Heinrich Wohlert and the educator Käthe Wohlert.

He did not succeed in handing his business over to younger hands. His nephew, the geologist Wilhelm Deecke, summed up in his autobiography :

“Peter Heinrich Wohlert was a very hard-working, solid businessman of the old style, but not very suitable and inclined to accept changes in circumstances, so that the business finally closed while he was still alive ... With worries, Wohlert became more and more tyrannical in the family and split up with the children. "

- Wilhelm Deecke

literature

• Heinrich Wohlert : In memory of AHP Wohlert. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter 1900 ( digitized version ), Col. 73–76

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV mainly based on the obituary (lit.)
2. ↑ For the family background, see Kai Deecke: Mein Elternhaus: Memories of Wilhelmine Wendt. In: Der Wagen 2018, pp. 206–225
3. ↑ Sylvina Zander: Little desire to sew, otherwise a good child--: Education for girls and women in Lübeck , Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1996, p. 212 ff.
4. ^ Kai Deecke: My parents' house: Memories of Wilhelmine Wendt. In: Der Wagen 2018, pp. 206-225, here p. 208