Carl Philipp Cassel

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Contemporary portrait by Carl Philipp Cassel

Carl Philipp Cassel (born April 1, 1742 or 1744 in Magdeburg ; † February 25, 1807 in Bremen ) was a German captain , merchant, shipowner and consul and is considered a pioneer of Bremen's East Asia trade.

biography

As the son of the renowned scholar Johann Philipp Cassel (1707–1783), Carl Philipp Cassel first attended the pedagogy in Bremen, but broke off his training at the age of eleven and joined the Dutch East India Company as a seaman . There he took it on the Indian and East Asian shipping routes first to the officer, later to the captain. His first ship is the Veldhoen - whose crew also includes his younger brother Johann Ludwig Cassel - and his second the Honkoop, with which he sails to Jakarta (Batavia) in 1771 . On the way back, the ship stops at the Cape . There Cassel gets into a dispute over a nullity with the captain of the ship Pauw , Abraham van der Weyden, over a meal at Governor Joachim van Plettenberg's . When van der Weyden is fatally injured in the following duel with Degen, Cassel flees to Europe undetected on board a French ship to avoid a feared arrest and conviction. In his absence, he was banished from the Cape Province for life and his property left on the Honkoop was confiscated. In 1773 he returned to Bremen and obtained the reimbursement of 3,733 guilders for outstanding wages from the East India Company in a legal process lasting several years .

In 1777, Cassel and the Palatinate businessman Johann Adam Traub (1745–1822) founded the trading company Cassel & Traub , based in Obernstrasse in Bremen . The company had the ships The President , Asia and Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen , which sailed from the Prussian Emden , which experienced a steep boom as a neutral port during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War . The main destination of Cassel & Traub's ships was East Asia, but they were also used in North American trade. The goods transported included tobacco, cotton, rice, sugar, arrak , pewter and wood.

Gut Landruhe in Bremen-Horn

In 1795 Cassel became consul in Bremen and had the Landruhe estate (Cassel himself called it "rest in the country") built in Bremen- Horn by master builder Joachim Andreas Deetjen. The house, which is still preserved today, was built in a strictly classical style and is characterized by a two-storey risalit with four pilasters and Ionic capitals crowned by a tympanum . In addition to this mansion, Cassel had an orangery and a manor house built for the attached agriculture.

In addition to his activities as a merchant and shipowner, Cassel was involved in setting up the Emden Navigation School in 1782 and founded the Bremen Navigation School in 1798 with other partners from the Seafaring House , the nucleus of the seafaring training in the city and forerunner of the Bremen Seafaring School .

The Konsul-Cassel-Strasse in Horn-Lehe was named after Carl Philipp Cassel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As shown in the permanent exhibition of the Überseemuseum in Bremen.
  2. ^ According to the Black Forest ( Großes Bremen-Lexikon , p. 166) he was a Prussian consul, according to Stein ( Das Bürgerhaus in Bremen , p. 134) an Austrian consul.

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personal data
SURNAME Cassel, Carl Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain, merchant, shipowner and consul
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1742 or April 1, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1807
Place of death Bremen