Christian Lahusen (businessman)

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Christel Lahusen

Martin Christian (Christel) Leberecht Lahusen (* March 12, 1820 in Bremen ; † May 25, 1898 ibid) was a businessman and founder of the North German Wool Combing & Kammgarnspinnerei AG ("North Wool").

biography

Christian Lahusen, called Christel during his lifetime , was born as the son of businessman Christoph Friedrich Lahusen (1781–1866) , who came from Berne near Oldenburg , and his wife Adelheid nee. Ordemann (1790–1869) was born and grew up in the Aschenburg on the Weser. His father founded an overseas trading company, a shipping company and a beer brewery in Bremen in 1834. After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Braunschweig and England, he joined the family business C. F. Lahusen , of which he became a partner in 1847, before managing the business alone from 1855.

Lahusen gradually expanded the import business of hides and wool from South America and acquired extensive land for sheep breeding in Uruguay and Argentina . In the years that followed, he increasingly focused on importing sheep's wool and made significant profits due to the increasing demand from the textile industry and the profitability of his company. In 1873 he bought a wool processing factory in the Bohemian town of Neudeck (today Czech: Nejdek) and thus also got into the industrial processing of wool. On March 5, 1884, he founded the Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei AG ( North Wool ) and had a wool laundry and combing plant built in Delmenhorst on the 13 hectare former estate of Witzleben from Hude , which was able to start production in December 1884 and within a few years it became a large company.

Lahusen decided in favor of the Delmenhorst production site because it had a railway connection and above all - unlike Bremen - it was already part of the imperial customs area . On the other hand, he was able to get the raw materials from overseas cheaply via the Bremen seaport .

In 1888 Lahusen handed over the management of the company to his son Carl Lahusen , who ran the company until his death in 1921, but remained chairman of the supervisory board. Son Gustav Lahusen , who managed the land in Argentina, left the company headquarters in 1887 and became the first chairman of the supervisory board of the new jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen in 1888 .

In 1871 Lahusen acquired the Schwalbenklippe house in St. Magnus from Caroline Gross, Admiral Brommy's widow . After relocating the corporate headquarters, the family moved into the new building of the Lahusen villa in Delmenhorst and he sold the property on the Lesum in 1883 to his brother-in-law, the merchant Julius Kulenkampff . Christian Lahusen had married the daughter of Bremen's mayor Diederich Meier , Anna (1824–1893), in 1846 , with whom he had three daughters and five sons, including Friedrich (1851–1927), later General Superintendent of Berlin, Diedrich (1852–1927) , Reichsgerichtsrat , Carl (1858–1921) head of the Nordwolle Group and Gustav Lahusen (1854–1939), board member of Nordwolle and supervisory board of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen .

He was considered a believing man who emphatically stood up for the Evangelical Church and was also the builder of the Stephanigemeinde in Bremen.

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SURNAME Lahusen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahusen, Martin Christian Leberecht (full name); Lahusen, Christel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1898
Place of death Bremen