August Joseph Schön

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August Joseph Schön (born May 22, 1802 in Hamburg , † July 6, 1870 in Klein Flottbek ) was a German merchant and shipowner .

Life

August Joseph Schön was a son of the Hamburg businessman Samuel Sigismund Schön (1772-1819) and his wife Elisabeth Schleiden (1778-1825). One brother was the physician Johann Matthias Albrecht Schön . August Joseph Schön went to St. Thomas as a young man and became a partner in Overmann & Co., which was renamed Overmann & Schön after he joined. In the 1830s, Carl Heinrich Willink came to St. Thomas and joined the company that was now called AJ Schön & Co. They set up a branch in San Juan , Puerto Rico .

Schön returned to Hamburg in September 1838 and had the company's ships registered there from 1840. In July 1847 he and Willink established the Hamburg branch under the same company. In the same year AJ Schön & Co. was one of the four largest shipping companies in Hamburg. At times it was the most important shipping company on the trade route to the West Indies with twenty sailing ships . Schön's son Gustav Adolf also joined the company in 1857, followed by his eldest son Christian August Wilhelm in 1865.

Schön held the office of consul of the Duchy of Nassau from 1839 to 1866 .

From 1849 to 1853 he was a Commerzdeputer and a citizen of the brokerage regulations. In his capacity as Commerzdeputation he was a member of the shipping and port deputation from 1849 to 1851 and a member of the bank deputation in 1850 and 1851. In 1852 Schön was President and from 1858 to 1870 senior adjunct of the Commerz Deputation in Hamburg. From 1859 to 1864 Schön was a member of the Hamburg citizenship as a member. As a shipowner, the merchants elected him to the commission for the seaman's fund from 1861 to 1865. The citizenship elected him a member of the deputation for trade and shipping for the years 1865 to 1867.

In 1854, Schön was involved in the establishment of the Hamburg-Bremer Feuer-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, which began operations at the beginning of 1855. He was one of the founders of the Garantie-Disconto-Verein, which emerged during the economic crisis of 1857 . Schön was a co-founder of the stock corporation for the establishment of a Zollverein defeat on the Sternschanze , of which he was the first chairman of the board of directors.

August Joseph Schön married Nicoline Elisabeth Gravenhorst Lövenstierne (1807–1883) on January 8, 1825. They had four sons and two daughters, including the entrepreneurs and politicians Gustav Adolf Schön (1834–1889) and Anton Matthias Schön (1837–1922). The lawyer Alexander Schön (1864–1941) was his grandson.

Honors

Since November 1864, Schön was a knight of the Ducal Nassau Military and Civil Service Order, Adolph of Nassau . He was also the holder of the Guelph Order IV class.

In 1869, a street was named after Schön in recognition of his commitment to founding the Zollverein defeat and the associated benefits for the Hamburg trade.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 125-127 .
  • Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . 27th volume. Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 231-233 .
  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 . Hamburg 1984, p. 24 .

Web links

  • August Joseph Schön. In: Hamburg personalities from 801-2013. Museum for Hamburg History and Society Harmony from 1789, accessed on March 16, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Association for German Statistics . Second year. F. Schneider and Comp., Berlin 1848, p. 278 ( online ).
  2. ↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. In: hk24.de. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ In memory of the first fifty years of existence of the Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance Company in Hamburg . Hamburg 1905, p. 1 ( online ).
  4. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1864 . Stein'sche Buchdruckerei, Wiesbaden, p. 31 ( online ).
  5. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1864 . Stein'sche Buchdruckerei, Wiesbaden, p. 64 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fine, August Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1870
Place of death Klein Flottbek