Bernhard Loose

Bernhard Loose (born May 16, 1836 in Bremen ; † May 31, 1902 Bremen) was a German banker and member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Loose was the son of a farmer. He learned the trade of a broker . His office in Bremen was initially in the Contrescarpe 191 building, then from 1871 in the adjoining stock exchange building . The company Bernhard Loose & Co. was now a money brokerage business. In 1889 the houses Domshof 29 (there has been a new building for the Bremer Landesbank since 1972 ) and Liebfrauenkirchhof 2/3 were acquired and in 1890 a new building for the Bank von Loose and other trading companies was built according to plans by Carl Bollmann. In 1911, the Loose bank also acquired Domshof 26 to 28.

House Loose, Parkstrasse 116

The Loose bank was involved in the founding of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen by Albert Haasemann in 1888 . In 1895 it financed half of the founding capital of the Bremen-Vegesacker Fischerei-Gesellschaft , and Loose became chairman of the supervisory board .

In 1861 Loose expanded the Tannenberg house, Landhaus Loose , which he owned until 1881. From 1902 he built the Loose house on Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz in Bremen-Schwachhausen, on the property at Parkstrasse 116 / Slevogtstrasse 60 .

After Losse's death, the Bank für Handel und Industrie (Darmstädter Bank) took over the Loose bank, which merged into the Darmstädter und Nationalbank (Danat Bank) in 1922 , which in turn also became insolvent in 1931 due to the bankruptcy of the Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei .

Loose donated the Moltke Memorial in Bremen, reminiscent of Helmuth von Moltke , which was erected in 1909 at the Church of Our Lady based on the designs of the Berlin architect Heinrich Jennen (1872–1920) and the Munich sculptor Hermann Hahn .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .