August Sartori (shipowner)

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August Anton Heinrich Sartori

August Anton Heinrich Sartori (born June 16, 1837 in Lübeck , † October 15, 1903 in Kiel ) was a German shipbroker , shipowner and local politician .

Old store by Satori & Berger in Kiel around 1890
The former office building of the largest shipping company in Kiel, Sartori & Berger, has housed both the State Office for Monument Preservation and the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in the Sartori warehouse on the Wall since 2002/2003 .

Life and family

Sartori was a son of the Lübeck light founder Franz Wilhelm Martin Sartori (1800–1869) and his wife Metta Margarete Drewes (1804–1884). The brothers August Sartori (educator) and Theodor Sartori were his cousins. Sartori's grandfather Franz had moved from Breslau to Lübeck. After attending school, the grandson completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship here in 1852 and went to Kiel in 1855. In 1855 he took a position at the ship broker A. Voigt in Kiel and in 1859 acquired citizenship . In 1860 Sartori married Franziska Rodde. Both spouses came from simple backgrounds. In the 12 years of their marriage, two sons and six daughters were born. In 1872 his wife died giving birth to their eighth child. She was buried on August 7, 1872 in the southern cemetery in Kiel. The crypt chapel, built on the sloping terrain, shows a red clinker brickwork in the painterly composed forms of the neo-Gothic style, which is effectively structured by dark glazed bands. It is the oldest burial place in the cemetery.

Professional activity

With the merchant Johann Albert Berger, he founded the ship brokerage and forwarding company “Sartori & Berger” in 1858, which he continued to build up from 1862 on. The company started with a sailor , but in 1883 the 50th ship was put into service. In 1868, the Holsatia, built by Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG in Gaarden near Kiel, was the first steamship to go into service. Sartori later became a partner in the “Kieler Dockgesellschaft”. Sartori also represented other shipping companies and built up a dense network of routes connecting Kiel with Gothenburg, Stettin, Königsberg and Danzig. In agreement with the Reich Post Office, Sartori operated the mail steamer line Kiel-Korsör / Denmark. A large timber shop and coal merchant were acquired to supply the companies. In 1896 the successful shipowner founded the "Neue Damper-Companie" - the Low German "Damper" standing for steamers. The company combined the excursion, ferry and tug shipping in the Kiel Fjord. In 1903, the year he died, the shipping company's new building 79 was put into service. His son August Ludwig Andreas became his successor in the company management. The forwarding agency still exists as an agency today.

Volunteering

In addition to his company, Sartori worked in the Kiel Chamber of Commerce, which he co-founded in 1871 and of which he was first chairman from 1880 to 1903. He was also a member of the Kiel city council from 1872. Since 1883 Sartori led the "Nautical Association", founded the "Nord-Ostsee-Zeitung" in 1887 and in 1891 became chairman of the Kiel department of the "German Colonial Society". As a local politician and chairman of the Kiel Chamber of Commerce and the Kiel City Council, he campaigned for the construction of the Kiel Canal and the expansion of the port. He acted as consul of the United States of America and as chairman of the board of many companies and associations, including the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People, founded in 1865 . He was a member of the Kiel Masonic Lodge Alma on the Baltic Sea . Kommerzienrat Sartori received numerous orders and awards for his work, such as the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class.

Awards

Honors

  • In Kiel, the Sartorikai reminds of the former ship broker.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of the federally funded project WHERE YOU RUHEN archive link ( memento from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Christian Ostersehlte: The 100th ship - A shipyard anniversary from 1883. In: German shipping archive . 26, 2003. p. 198.
  3. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Sartorikai. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Sartori, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sartori, August Anton Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ship broker, shipowner and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1903
Place of death Kiel