August Humplmayr

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August Humplmayr (* 1829 ; † April 10, 1885 ) was a German entrepreneur in Munich.

In 1859 August Humplmayr acquired the Wimmer Gallery . In August 1869 August Humplmayr acquired from Ilka von Wrede (March 30, 1838 - February 21, 1913) for 106,000 guilders the property at Brienner Strasse 7, which had been offered in 1867 for 135,000.

In 1868 Karl von Eichthal founded the association of the liberal middle class party in Munich . In 1869, Humplmayr, together with the merchants Max Huber and Angelo Knorr (* 1820, † 1872) and the landowner Edmund Hetzner, were appointed municipal representatives in Munich. August Humplmayr sat on the supervisory board of Hackerbräu AG from 1881 to 1885 . August Humplmayr was married to Philomena Humplmayr (* 1844; † 1921) and their son was August Humplmayr Junior (* April 5, 1864).

August Humplmayr Junior

August Humplmayr Junior invested in the Partnach electricity company in 1893, which is why the Humplmayr-Weg in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was dedicated to him. August Humplmayr Junior was elected Prince Gustl I by 500 members of the Munich Carnival Society in Kil's Colosseum on the evening of January 30, 1894 and was deputy consul of the German Empire in Monrovia from 1898 to 1902, replacing the previous consul Jäger. In 1897 the government of William D. Coleman granted August Humplmayr Junior the concession as an employment agency in Liberia . Humplmayr brokered mainly to Fernão do Pó , which Wilhelm II (German Empire) tried to acquire from the government of José Luciano de Castro . With Hans Haag, Humpelmayr owned the Liberian Coffe Plantation Co. Ltd.

In the old southern cemetery in Munich a tomb bears: two bronze figures: an angel sitting on a sarcophagus, hugging a wingless being, the inscription Humplmayr crypt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Kamp, Marie Rau, Brienner Straße 7 - The story of a Munich palace, p. 55, p. 67
  2. ^ List of members of the liberal middle party Munich 1868
  3. ↑ Stefanie Michels, Black German Colonial Soldiers : Ambiguous Representation Rooms and Early Cosmopolitanism in Africa, 2009 - 262 pp
personal data
SURNAME Humplmayr, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH 1829
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1885
Place of death Munich