Diedrich Hahn

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Diedrich Johann Bernhard Hahn (born January 27, 1884 in Geestemünde ; † May 17, 1967 ) was a German businessman and shipowner .

Career

Entrepreneur

Diedrich Hahn completed a commercial apprenticeship and on March 25, 1908, together with Heinrich Hussmann, founded the sea fish shop Hussmann & Hahn in Cuxhaven - just a few weeks after the first fish auction took place in the new fishing port of Cuxhaven in February 1908 . When Heinrich Hussmann was killed in the First World War in 1916 , Diedrich Hahn took over sole management of the company. He made it one of the most important fish processing companies in Germany.

In 1925, Diedrich Hahn expanded the company and set up a smokehouse and a production facility for marinades . With the establishment of the in-house fishing steamer shipping company in 1936, the company also expanded to Bremerhaven, where it had a branch in the fishing port . In 1938 he expanded the business to include a fish meal factory.

After the Second World War, the manufacture of saithe-in-oil products formed the first expansion of the product range in 1949. When Hussmann & Hahn gave up its own shipping company in 1954, it started producing frozen fish in the same year , thus assuming a pioneering role in the production of frozen products in Germany. After Diedrich Hahn's death in 1967, his son Kurt Hahn took over management of the company.

further activities

He represented professional interests as first chairman of the united fish wholesalers in Cuxhaven and from 1953 as president of the Stade Chamber of Commerce and Board member of the Association of Lower Saxony Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

He was the Royal Norwegian Vice Consul and President of the Horse Racing Association on the Duhner Watt.

For several years Hahn was also a member of the supervisory board of the "Gemeinnützige Heimgesellschaft GmbH Cuxhaven", which was responsible for the women's dormitory in Cuxhaven's Elfenweg and which existed from 1926 to 1975.

Honors

  • 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1954: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : The German Who's Who , Arani Verlag, Berlin 1955 (without ISBN).
  • Nik Schumann: Cuxhaven, the big deep sea fishery and the sea fish market , Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2008, ISBN 3-935519-29-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone of the Hahn family with dates of birth and death , at grabsteine.genealogy.net
  2. ↑ Schumann, p. 270
  3. ↑ Cuxhaven address book
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Diedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Diedrich Johann Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1967