Carl Paul Dollmann

Carl Paul Dollmann (born April 20, 1852 in Hamburg ; died November 13, 1907 there ) was a Hanseatic businessman, co-owner of the colonial company Jantzen & Thormählen and, since 1886, royal Bavarian consul general in Hamburg.

Palais Dollmann , Mittelweg in Hamburg (2015)

He was also a partner in the Cameroon tobacco growing company , the Moliwe planting society for cocoa and rubber and the West African planting society Bibundi (WAPB) , which owned 13,000 hectares of land in the then protected area of ​​Cameroon .

He married Olga Maria Krogmann (* 1861) on February 3, 1881, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In February 1892, Dollmann and his family moved into the Palais Dollmann at Mittelweg 28 in Hamburg-Harvestehude, designed for him by the architects Manfred Semper and Carl Krutisch and now a listed building , the headquarters of the German Press Agency since 1949 .

In 1897 he donated one of the newly invented X-ray machines for the club hospital and nursing asylum of the Patriotic Women's Aid Association in Hamburg ( VFV ) am Schlump , for which the foundation stone had been laid a year earlier .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Negotiations with the Bavarian Consul General , Hamburg State Archives. 111-1 Senate Volume 4, 12. – 20. Jh., Call number 5099, p. 432, (accessed on July 22, 2020)
2. ↑ “The German Banana.” Economic and cultural history of the banana in the German Empire 1900 - 1939 , Kerstin Wilke (2004) p. 162 (accessed on July 22, 2020)
3. ^ German Empire, Berlin January 12, 1899 , Hamburg January 12, 1899, p. 2
4. ↑ Von load carriers and raw rubber collectors , Golf Dornseif, p. 10 (accessed on July 22, 2020)
5. ↑ Hamburg address book from 1892 , p. 104, (accessed on July 22, 2020)
6. ↑ List of monuments , hamburg.de (accessed on July 22, 2020)
7. Jump up in free journalism: 70 years of dpa , ndr.de from August 31, 2019
8. ↑ Notes on the Hamburg Red Cross history , drk-hamburg.de, Volkmar Schön, February 2018 (accessed on July 22, 2020)