Carl Hostmann

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Carl Hostmann (born January 16, 1799 in Hildesheim , † January 21, 1858 near Celle ) was a German banker and entrepreneur in Celle.

Life

Carl Hostmann was the son of Friedrich Andreas Hostmann (May 31, 1748 - November 28, 1809) and his first wife, Sophia Catharina Sinn (August 14, 1764–1800). His mother died as a result of the birth of his sister Christiana. Hostmann's grandfather, Christian Conrad Hostmann (1715 - April 7, 1781) was the mayor of Hildesheim.

In 1823 the bankers Carl and Christian Hostmann - his half-brother from his father's second marriage to Christiana Bock (1760 - June 29, 1823) - took part in the expanded printing ink factory of the chemist Johann Ernst Holste in Celle (from 1902: Hostmann-Steinberg ). In 1832, when the Hadelner Canal was being built, they gave loans to those interested in the canal. Around 1841 Friedrich Christian Deig (* 1808 in Barbis) received the capital for his match factory from Christian Hostmann .

1853 mined Carl Host man and from Linden native entrepreneur Fritz Hurtzig in Oberg (now a district of Ilsede ) to coal . They applied to the government in Braunschweig and Hanover for the right to mining for the communities of Adenstedt , Klein- and Groß Bülten , Gadenstedt , Münstedt , Schmedenstedt and Groß Ilsede . They received the hereditary concessions in December 1856.

The initially planned company of the planned stock corporation , Welfen Berg- und Hütten-Gesellschaft , was rejected by the Guelph royal family, instead it was called Bergbau- und Hütten-Gesellschaft zu Peine . Six blast furnaces , smelting, puddling , rolling, foundry and machine works were planned. The share capital of 5.0 million thalers was paid up to 334,000 thalers in the spring of 1857 and a Belgian company began building the iron and steel works in Groß Ilsede. However, the placement of the shares proved difficult. Since the funds were insufficient, construction work had to be stopped in early 1858 and Carl Hostmann committed suicide . The lawyer Friedrich Meyersburg in Celle became the insolvency administrator for his estate . His son-in-law Carl Haarmann rebuilt the ironworks in Peine as Ilseder Hütte after the death of Hostmann . Haarmann had married Anna Hostmann (April 27, 1830 - January 4, 1893), Hostmann's daughter from her marriage to Marianne (Johanna Catharina Maria) Habich (1802–1878).

1856 Hannoversche Bergwerksgesellschaft host Mann & Co. AG bought the Berechtsame for the Hannover colliery , which was built in the years 1857-1858. However, long-term problems with ingress of groundwater prevented profitable coal extraction and at the same time required high investments. In 1860 the mine was sold again. Before the colliery started making a profit in 1870, it changed hands several times until Alfred Krupp bought it in 1872.

literature

  • O. Philipps: Carl Hostmann and the Ilseder Hütte. Studies on the history of the Peine-Ilseder iron industry on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the death of its founder. G. Stalling, Oldenburg 1934.
  • Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg:  Hostmann, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 654 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • J. Studtmann: Carl Hostmann and the mining and smelting company in Peine. Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony, Hanover 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hostmann, Christian Conrad in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on June 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hostmann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1858
Place of death at Celle