August Lattmann
Johannes August Lattmann (born October 5, 1858 in Hamburg ; † January 19, 1936 there ) was a German businessman, banker and Hamburg senator.
Life
Lattmann completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked for several years in Spain and Portugal before he got a position at G. Amsinck & Co. in New York City in 1881 . Lattmann was related to the Amsincks in many ways, his mother was born Amsinck.
After working for G. Amsinck & Co. for four years, he became a partner. Lattmann was very successful as a merchand banker in New York, he left as a partner in 1901 and returned to Hamburg after becoming very wealthy. In Hamburg Lattmann lived on his fortune and volunteered for several welfare institutions. For example, he was chairman of the child protection association, member of the board of directors for the asylum for the homeless and district head of orphan care.
On June 5, 1912, Lattmann was elected to the Senate as successor to the resigned William Henry O'Swald . He worked in the Senate as president of the poor institution, the authority for public youth welfare and the advanced education system. On March 27, 1919, Lattmann resigned along with the rest of the senators.
During the First World War , Lattmann built up the Hamburg War Aid, a private charity. He also headed the private charity society . This society gave rise to the idea of founding the Social Women's School and the Social Pedagogical Institute, which were realized in 1916. Lattmann headed the board of trustees of the facility and in this capacity appointed Gertrud Bäumer and Marie Baum to head the facility. In 1921 Lattmann resigned from these offices.
From 1920 Lattmann returned to work as a banker, as Max Warburg and Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy appointed him to the board of the newly founded Deutsche Warentreuhand AG , which was founded on Warburg's initiative. Lattmann was active on the board of directors until 1928 and switched to the supervisory board in 1929, to which he belonged until 1934. In 1933 Lattmann became chairman of the supervisory board for the retired Felix Warburg .
Johannes August Lattmann married Fanny Schlüter (* 1864) in 1885, a daughter of the Hamburg merchant Julius David Schlüter . He was buried in the family grave of Carl Gustav Adolf Lattmann in the old Niendorf cemetery in Hamburg.
literature
- Anton F. Guhl: Johannes August Lattmann: Social and Liberal in the pre-democratic Hamburg Senate. Hamburg: Hamburg Univ. Press, 2nd edition 2014 (patrons for science) ISBN 978-3-943423-08-2
swell
- Article: Senator a. D. Lattmann 70 years old. Hamburg Foreign Gazette, No. 276 of October 4, 1928
Web links
- Newspaper article about August Lattmann in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ According to Rudolf Martin (ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), Berlin 1912; Hamburg Teil, p. 40 Lattmann is said to have had a fortune of 1.6 million Reichsmarks in 1912
- ↑ See the annual report of Deutschewarentreuhand AG for the years 1920 to 1934
- ↑ Bernhard Koerner: Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien, a German gender book . tape 18 . Starke, Görlitz 1910, p. 384 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lattmann, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lattmann, Johannes August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hamburg senator and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1936 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |