Edmund Siemers
Edmund Julius Arnold Siemers (born March 12, 1840 in Hamburg ; † November 20, 1918 there ) was a Hamburg merchant , shipowner and founder .
Life
Siemers expanded GJH Siemers & Co., founded by his grandfather in 1811, into the largest German petroleum dealer . Along with Wilhelm Anton Riedemann , he was one of the first to import petroleum into the German Empire . Between 1887 and 1889, Siemers acquired three tank steamers , which he financed entirely from his own resources. At the beginning of 1891, the German-American Petroleum Company (DAPG), a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company , took over the petroleum business, and a few months later the three Siemers oil tankers. DAPG was later renamed Deutsche Esso GmbH and is now part of Exxon Mobil . At the beginning of the 1890s, Siemers turned primarily to the import of guano and saltpeter and returned to the shipping business with a fleet of sailing ships and steamers. In addition, he became a large landowner from 1908, who acquired a total of 6.6 million square meters of land in Hamburg-Langenhorn alone by 1913. In 1911 he participated in the founding of Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), from which Hamburg Airport later emerged. After his death, his son Kurt Siemers , who had already become a partner in 1904, became senior director of GJH Siemers & Co.
From 1892 until his death, Siemers was a member of the Hamburg parliament and from 1898 to 1906 a member of the finance deputation. In 1905 Siemers was elected senior elder in the parish of Sankt Jacobi and remained a member of the senior elders' college until his death. In 1896 he founded the Edmundsthal-Siemerswalde pulmonary sanatorium near Geesthacht , which was opened three years later, and in 1907, as a member of the board of trustees of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation, a lecture building, which is now the main building of Hamburg University.
In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of the "Millionärshügel" above the northern pond, there is the grave of the Siemers family with a pillow stone for Edmund Siemers.
Awards
The street in Hamburg, where the main university building is located, is in his honor Edmund-Siemers-Allee ( ⊙ ).
In Hamburg-Langenhorn, a residential area with beautiful parks and gardens bears the name "Siemershöh" (founded in 1914).
literature
- Herwarth von Schade: Edmund Julius Arnold Siemers . In: On the harmony and welfare of this good city: 475 years of the senior elders' college in Hamburg . Convent, Hamburg 2003, OCLC 53903206 , p. 401-402 .
- Claudia Sodemann-Fast: Siemers, Edmund Julius Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 380 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Claudia Sodemann-Fast: Siemers, Edmund . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 311-313 .
- Johannes Gerhardt: Edmund Siemers. Entrepreneurs and donors (= patrons for science, vol. 16), Hamburg University Press 2014. ISBN 978-3-943423-16-7 ( full text online )
Web links
- Newspaper article about Edmund Siemers in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siemers, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siemers, Edmund Julius Arnold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, shipowner and politician, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1918 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |