Conrad Hinrich Donner (banker, 1774)

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Conrad Hinrich Donner
Donner's crypt (center) on today's Struenseestrasse

Conrad Hinrich Donner (born April 11, 1774 in Altona ; † January 1, 1854 there ) was an Altona merchant and banker .

Life

He came from a Lauenburg, Holstein family and was the son of Johann Christoph Donner (1739-1804), a merchant and royal Danish consul and counselor , and Maria Anterrer (1742-1802) from Altona.

Donner initially owned a tobacco factory with 150 employees. In 1798 he founded the company "Conrad Hinrich Donner", which initially operated the purchase and sale of goods, the procurement of insurance companies and the shipping company of sailing ships. Later the banking business came more and more to the fore, from which the " Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank " emerged.

In 1820 he bought the formerly Sievekingschen garden (now Thunder Park ) with country house in Neumühlen on the Elbe , where he in 1843 a museum for his collection of sculptures (works by Bertel Thorvaldsen and Herman Wilhelm Bissen ) with greenhouse and orangery of Gottfried Semper had built . There he received the Danish King Christian VIII as a guest in 1845 . In 1829 he bought the Bredeneek and Rethwisch estates (both now districts of Lehmkuhlen ) near Preetz in Holstein and founded a family entrepre- neurship from them . In 1830 he had the Bredeneek manor built. He donated large sums of money for charitable purposes, was a patron of art and science and was therefore friends with the Hamburg builder Gottfried Semper and the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Donner married on November 28, 1804 in Altona Elisabeth Willink (born October 17, 1784 in Hamburg; † November 14, 1826 in Altona-Neumühlen), the daughter of the Hamburg merchant Barend (Bernhard) Willink (1754-1809) and Sophia Elisabeth Beets (1763-1830). The couple had a daughter and four sons, including Bernhard Donner . The daughter Sophie Elisabeth (born November 15, 1805 in Altona, † November 25, 1858 in Paris) married the Danish admiral and later Minister of the Navy Christian Christopher (von) Zahrtmann (1793-1853) on September 2, 1827.

Conrad Hinrich Donner found his final resting place in the Heilig-Geist-Kirchhof in Altona.

Honors and medals

On November 1, 1824 Donner was appointed to the Royal Danish Budget Council and on January 25, 1840 to the Royal Danish Conference Council. On February 19, 1822 he was by Friedrich VI. Appointed Knight of the Dannebrog Order by Denmark, elevated to Dannebrogmann on June 28, 1842, and Commander of the Dannebrog Order on June 28, 1847 by Christian VIII.

Remarks

  1. ↑ A small private museum in the shape of an octagon (Source: Renata Klee Gobert: Private Museum Donner . In: Altona. Elbvororte (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1970, p. 170 . )
  2. ↑ Tombstone of the Donner family in Schleepark genealogy.net

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personal data
SURNAME Donner, Conrad Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1854
Place of death Altona