Christian Heinrich von Wöhrmann (entrepreneur)

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Christian Heinrich von Wöhrmann (born November 16 . Jul / 28. November  1814 greg. In Riga ; † 25. March 1874 in Menton ) was a Baltic German merchant and Consul General of the German Reich in Riga.

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Wöhrmann came from the original Lübeck merchant family Wöhrmann , who worked as silk merchants in the textile wholesale trade between France and the Baltic Sea. Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann (the elder, * 1737) went to Riga around 1763 and became a member of the Blackheads . In 1772 he became her elder. He was successively a partner in the trading companies "Vethaacke, Krupp & Co", "Krupp & Wöhrmann" and "Wöhrmann & Detenhoff" until he set up his own company in the 1770s. From 1804, his son Johann Christoph Wöhrmann (1784–1843) took over the company now trading as “Wöhrmann & Sohn” and represented Prussia as its consul general for Livonia and Courland in Riga. The Wöhrmannsche Garten in Riga can be traced back to his financial support .

Christian Heinrich was the son of Johann Christoph Wöhrmann and his wife Cäcilie Wilhelmine, geb. Kuhlmann. He was sent to relatives in Lübeck in order to receive his school education here at the Katharineum in Lübeck . He then joined the Wöhrmann & Sohn store as an apprentice . After completing his apprenticeship, he went abroad for several years to expand his commercial knowledge. He returned to Riga and, after the death of his father in August 1843, took over the management of the company in Franzensbad .

Of the industrial enterprises, the cloth factory founded by his father in Zintenhof (today Sindi , Pärnu County , Estonia ) on a Pernau rapids was the focus of his interest. He doubled production and employed up to 2000 workers here. The factory included free accommodation and farmland or garden land for personal use. Wöhrmann also set up a hospital with 40 to 50 beds, a relief fund and three elementary schools for children of German, Estonian and Russian nationality, whose teachers were paid by the factory. In Zintenhof, Wöhrmann also ran a large estate.

In Mühlenhof near Riga ( Zēmunda muiža ) he founded an iron foundry and machine factory. In addition to machines for processing cloth for his cloth factory, she produced agricultural equipment. He also took over a steam saw mill in Mühlenhof, where around 500 workers were employed after expansion.

He was a member of the Blackheads Company, was elected to the Stock Exchange Comité in March 1844 and was its Vice-President from March 1846 to 1849 . Since the death of his father he was consul general, first of Prussia, then of the North German Confederation and from 1871 of the German Empire, for Livonia and Courland in Riga as well as temporarily entrusted with the administration of the KK Austrian consulate. In 1870 he founded a support association for wounded Prussian soldiers.

He was fond of the arts, personally befriended Heinrich Heine and left behind an extensive collection of oil paintings, copper engravings and hand drawings by older and more recent masters.

Since April 12, 1844 he was married to Varvara Pavlovna, b. v. Kupreanow. In 1849 he was raised to hereditary nobility by the tsar.

Suffering from a chronic lung disease, he sought healing in the Mediterranean climate, where he died in Menton as a result of a lung attack. A marble plaque in the Wöhrmann chapel of Lübeck's Marienkirche commemorates him .

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  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of Riga Cathedral (Latvian: Rīgas Doms)
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SURNAME Wöhrmann, Christian Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German businessman and consul general of the German Reich in Riga
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1874
Place of death Menton