August Ludwig Bruns

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August Ludwig Bruns (* 1790 ; † 1858 ) was a German entrepreneur , senator and life insurance founder.

Life

Wrapping paper for chewing tobacco from AL Bruns & Sons

August Ludwig Bruns was born at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1790. After the so-called " French era " and the elevation of the electorate to the Kingdom of Hanover , the factory owner and finance senator wanted to set up an insurance company based on the model of the Gothaer life insurance bank . Even before the beginning of the industrial revolution , Bruns founded the “Rauch-, Schnupf-, Kautaback- und Cigarren” factory AL Bruns in Hanover in 1820 .

Together with Carl Ahles , Franz Krohne and Friedrich Kromcke, the factory owner first founded an " Association for the establishment of a general, mutual life insurance company for the Kingdom of Hanover", the purpose of which was to prepare the insurance to be set up. Finally, the sovereign, King George IV , who ruled in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , granted the necessary approval through which Bruns was able to found the “ General Life Insurance Establishment for the Kingdom of Hanover ” in 1829 .

The address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1847 recorded Bruns with residence at Breite Straße 27 as a merchant, deacon at the Aegidienkirche , tobacco manufacturer, general agent of the Leipzig fire insurance institute and general director of the Hanoverian general life insurance institute.

At the 22nd general assembly of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover on March 3, 1850 in the Hanstein Hall, "Senator Bruns" took an active part as a board member of the Hanover provincial association.

Bruns established a foundation , through whose performances among the confirmands of the parochial school Hanover, the later Bürgererschule 1/2, "honorary bonuses to the two best computers and the two best calligraphers " of the institution should be distributed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Peter Koche: History of the insurance industry in Germany , Karlsruhe: Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89952-371-3 , p. 69; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Karl Karmarsch , Theodor Oldekop (Red.): Mittheilungen des Gewerbevereins for the Kingdom of Hanover , born 1842–1843 or delivery 28–43, Hanover: in commission of the Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1843, column 375f .; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ Kurt Pohl: The beginnings of the German life insurance system , philosophical dissertation at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1913, p. 21; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1847, section I: Address and housing gazette , 4: Alphabetical list of residents , p. 74; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  5. ^ Karl Karmarsch , Wilhelm August von Rudloff (Red.): Mittheilungen des Gewerbevereins for the Kingdom of Hanover , born 1848–1851 or delivery 56–63, Hanover: in commission of the Hahnschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1851, column 150; Digitized via Google books
  6. ^ Foundations , in: Administrative report of the magistrate of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover. 1906-07 , Hanover: printed by Aug. Eberlein & Co., 1908, pp. 240-241
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, August Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, founder and first chairman of Concordia
DATE OF BIRTH 1790
DATE OF DEATH 1858