Carl Bahlsen

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Carl Bahlsen (also: Karl Bahlsen ; * 1819 ; † 1879 ) was a German cloth merchant and purveyor to the Royal Prussian court for men's clothing and military effects .

Life

"Military effects and riding utensils"
" Uniforms for military and civil officials "
Advertisement in the Hanover address book from 1873

Carl Bahlsen was born as a member of the Bahlsen family who moved from Lebenstedt near Salzgitter to Hanover in the 18th century . The family owned their so-called "old Bahlsen house" since 1829 - two houses away from the historic Leibnizhaus in Schmiedestrasse.

The cloth merchant Carl Bahlsen continued the company, which was initially owned by his father, as a purveyor to the court for men's clothing and military insignia .

Carl Bahlsen married Marie Wendland (1829–1904), daughter of the court gardener Heinrich Ludolph Wendland , at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1854 .

The marriage of Carl and Marie Bahlsen had three children; in addition to Theodor and Elisabeth, Hermann Bahlsen (1859–1919), the founder of the Hanoverian cake factory H. Bahlsen .

1863 was Karl Bahlsen by architect Heinrich Köhler on the grounds of the old court Pack the House Bahlsen build; The philosopher Theodor Lessing spent his youth in this first building in Hanover, built in the neo-renaissance style .

After the proclamation of the German Empire , Carl Bahlsen was, according to a full-page advertisement in the business gazette of the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1873, purveyor to the court of the King of Prussia , Wilhelm I , and operated his company under the - then - Address Georgstraße 30 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Carl Bahlsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Bahlmann, Kerstin Deike, Birgit Nachtwey, Monika Prött: The Bahlsen Family (in English), in: Biscuits is Bahlsen , Bahlsen chronicle, Hannover: Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG Corporate Communications, 2014, p. 181; PDF document from bahlsengroup.com
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgstraße 29 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 121
  3. ↑ Compare the address book from 1873, Geschäftsanzeiger, p. 15 as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
personal data
SURNAME Bahlsen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahlsen, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cloth, uniform and military effects dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1819
DATE OF DEATH 1879