Christian Justus Friedrich Traun

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christian Justus Friedrich Traun (born January 13, 1804 in Hanau , † July 18, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German businessman and manufacturer .

Life

Traun initially worked as a businessman and then acted as the private secretary of the Duchess of Cambridge in Hanover . In 1836 he joined the Hamburg factory HC Meyer jr. a. The company belonged to his father-in-law Heinrich Christian Meyer and produced, among other things, walking sticks . After the death of his father-in-law in 1848, Traun ran the company together with his son Heinrich Adolph Meyer and later with his son Heinrich Christian Meyer. Together they founded the Harburg rubber comb factory in 1856 . Traun's eldest son Heinrich Traun joined the company in 1863 and Heinrich Adolph Meyer left the company in 1864 to set up a company for ivory products. In 1870 Traun left the business.

Pillow stone "Christ. Justus Friedrich Traun", family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Traun was involved in Hamburg's St. Jakobikirche from 1847 to 1851 as an adjunct and from 1852 to 1870 as a hundred and eighty , he was a Jurat in 1861 and 1862 . Traun belonged to the prison college from 1849 to 1853, from 1864 to 1867 to the deputation for postal, railway and telegraph systems and from 1867 to 1870 to the administration of the boarding house of the Hamburg city theater .

Traun was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1860 to 1865 .

Christian Justus Friedrich Traun married Bertha Meyer (1818–1863), both were buried in the area of ​​the family grave at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf , grid square AC 18, 1-28 (southwest of chapel 7).

In memory of Traun, his sons set up the Friedrich Traun Foundation after his death.

The Traunweg in the Hamburg district of Harburg is dedicated to Christian Justus Friedrich Traun and subsequently also to his wife Bertha , a pioneer of the Hamburg women's movement.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 164-165 .
personal data
SURNAME Traun, Christian Justus Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1881
Place of death Frankfurt am Main