Charles Hornung Petit
Charles Hornung Petit (born March 22, 1844 in Lübeck ; † February 6, 1934 there ) was a German businessman and politician from Lübeck.
Life
Charles Hornung Petit was the son of the Lübeck merchant and Danish consul Charles Petit (1810–1885), who had been a member of the Lübeck citizenship from 1849/1850 , and his wife Sophie geb. Buchholz. His sister Anna Sophie Petit (1842–1892) married the Hamburg merchant Heinrich Hudtwalcker .
Petit learned the trade in Hamburg, France, England and Italy as well as during a longer stay in Denmark, which was one of the commercial focuses of his father's business Charles Petit & Sohn in Lübeck, founded in 1849 , in which the businessman Johannes Fehling joined as a partner in 1861 , who 1878 was elected to the Lübeck Senate . In 1870 Charles Hornung Petit also joined Charles Petit & Son as a partner. He gradually took over the Danish consulate in Lübeck from his father; In 1871 he was first Vice Consul, in 1882 Consul and from 1892 Danish Consul General. Petit was active in the Chamber of Commerce as the then board member of the merchant class, from 1904 to 1906 chairman of the supervisory board of Commerz-Bank in Lübeck.
In Hamburg on November 14, 1895, a meeting between representatives of the Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck chambers of commerce took place on the draft of a new commercial code . In response to the letter from Hamburg on November 9th, the local Chamber of Commerce sent its President Hermann Lange and his members Ernst Stiller and himself to the meeting. A commission was also elected in 1896 to deliberate on the draft of a commercial code. In addition to him, she included President Lange, Johann Heinrich Evers , Carl James Rehder, and Commerzienrat Heinrich Gustav Scharff, co-owner of the Cabell & Schwartzkopf Gotth company. Joach. Georg Schwartzkopf and Rudolf Thiel , co-owners of the Carl Thiel & Sons company .
On the basis of the new electoral law passed on August 9, 1905 with the corresponding constitutional amendment, the renewal of a third of the citizenship, with 40 new members to be elected, was carried out on November 14 in the countryside and on November 17 in the city. In order to keep the number of citizenship members at 80 after those elected since 1899, the drawing of five members was necessary. In the new elections that have now taken place, Petit, who had been a member of the citizenship since 1903 , was not re-elected.
He was particularly committed to the Lübeck orphanage . In 1912, with a fortune of five million marks, he was regarded as the second wealthiest Lübeck after Emil Possehl .
The Danish consulate later passed to his younger partner in the company Charles Petit & Co. Reinhard Dieckmann, who was a nephew of his wife. Dieckmann's wife, the pianist Lilli Dieckmann geb. Distel (1882–1958) led an influential musical salon in the first half of the 20th century and, along with Ida Boy-Ed, significantly promoted the young Wilhelm Furtwängler .
He was married to Auguste Pauline Charlotte born on May 23, 1872. Ahrens (* September 5, 1845; † February 12, 1934), the eldest daughter of the landowner Ernst Ahrens (1818–1872) and his wife Louise Therese, born in Hamburg, Germany. Meyer (1820–) in Neu Schlagsdorf , and lived in the house at Roeckstrasse 30 on the Wakenitz and the city park opened in 1902 . The former parent company of Charles Petit & Sohn , later Charles Petit & Co. in the former shipping district of Lübeck's old town is the Petit House , built in 1876 as a corner building at An der Untertrave 3 / Kleine Altefähre next to the European Hanseatic Museum .
Awards
- Order of the Redeemer , cross in silver
- Dannebrogorden ,
- 7 October 1882 knight
- Commander December 27, 1906
Fonts
- The Lübeck orphanage. Brief report on its origins and development up to the present day , Lübeck 1918
literature
- HF Grandjean, Johannes Madsen, CV Nyholm: De kgl. Danske ridderordener: personalhistorisk festskrift: udgivet i anledning af hans majestæt kong Christian den niendes 40-haired regeringsjubilæum. Copenhagen: A. Christiansen 1903, p. 553 (with portrait)
- Petit, Charles H. in: Kraks Blå Bog , 1910, p. 346
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The bank was founded in 1856 as a credit and insurance bank and renamed Commerz-Bank in Lübeck on June 1, 1859 . Because of the similarity with the Commerzbank , it was named Handelsbank in Lübeck in 1940 . A few years before the bank became part of Deutsche Bank , its name changed to Deutsche Bank Lübeck .
- ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 98, edition of December 11, 1895, pp. 618–619.
- ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 37th volume, no. 41, edition of July 19, 1896, pp. 314-315.
- ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- ^ Citizenship replacement election. , in: Vaterstädtische Blätter ; Year 1905, No. 47, edition of November 19, 1905, pp. 193–194
- ^ Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities. 1912; quoted from Jan Zimmermann : St. Gertrud 1860–1945. Bremen 2007, p. 8.
- ↑ Lorenz Meyer, Oscar L. Tesdorpf: Hamburgische Wappen und Genealogien. Hamburg: self-published 1890, p. 252
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 49 (1907), p. 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petit, Charles Hornung |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1934 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |