Daniel Georg Volkmann

Daniel Georg Volkmann (born February 15, 1812 in Bremen ; † March 28, 1892 there ) was a Bremen banker.

biography

education and profession

Volkmann was the seventh son of the Bremen brandy distiller Johann Hermann Volkmann (1769–1824) and Magdalene, nee. Behrens (1777-1846).

After finishing the Bremen School of Academics, he joined the Bremer banking house Schultze & Wolde as an apprentice. He soon received power of attorney and at the age of 31, on January 1, 1844, Daniel Georg Volkmann was accepted as the second partner of Carl Heinrich Wolde in the open trading company J. Schultze & Wolde.

Within a few years the company, founded in 1794, went from a small exchange office to a prestigious private bank. Directly behind the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, the Schütting , the business was operated on the corner of Stintbrücke / Langenstrasse. In the years 1846/47, the bank was involved in the financing of the new Bremen-Hanover railway line and earned a fortune from that alone. In 1904, the Schultze & Wolde bank merged with what would later become Deutsche Bank, which at the time was still called Disconto-Gesellschaft, which continued to operate the buildings on Stintbrücke and Langenstrasse as a branch.

Politics and other memberships

In 1873 Volkmann was elected to the Bremen citizenship by the voters of the 2nd class, the merchant class , to which he belonged for 20 years until his death. His brother Johann Heinrich Volkmann , who was elected as the theologian for the 1st class, the academic class, had also been part of the Bremen citizenship since 1854 .

From 1883 to 1892 he was president of the Bremer Eiswette .

family

In 1853 Volkmann married Johanne Doeltz (1831–1909) in Osnabrück, daughter of the royal Hanover regional master builder Friedrich Doeltz , who became known for planning larger state buildings in the Kingdom of Hanover. Both had four sons: Georg Friedrich Volkmann, later a merchant in San Francisco, Johann called John Volkmann , who invented and produced chocolate machines for the Stollwerck company in New York, Gustav Volkmann, later a merchant in Colombia and German consul in Bucaramanga , and Otto Volkmann .

literature

• Julius W. Ropers: From money changer to major bank. Bremen 1937.