Eduard Koopmann

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The commercial judge and Turkish consul Eduard Koopmann, around 1900

Eduard Koopmann (born on 6. April 1863 in Berne , died 15. July 1926 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant , textile - and silk - entrepreneurs , association official , Handelsgerichtsrat and Consul of Turkey .

biography

The building at Georgstrasse 14; next to the house number on the right on the ground floor the “Seiden-Haus Koopmann”;
Postcard from around 1910 by the photographer Edmund Lill , who had his studio on the floor above Koopmann
The former Koopmann silk house in Bremen, which is now a listed building
Sales room in a department of the silk house in Hanover, around 1920
Tomb in the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede in Hanover

In the early days of the German Empire, Eduard Koopmann opened the Koopmann silk house in the Georgstrasse 14 building in Hanover in 1889. Thanks to his economic success, the then young entrepreneur was soon able to regularly expand the Hanoverian business premises that were owned by the company. He acquired the neighboring property at Georgstrasse 13 before further enlargements of the sales area took place in the summer of 1926 during the Weimar Republic . In the meantime, Koopmann had opened further branches in the 19th century : in Cologne in 1895 and in Bremen in 1899 .

After the successful businessman had been appointed to the Commercial Court Counselor, he was elected chairman of both the district group and the local group of Hanover in the Reichsbund des textile retailers in 1913. In the middle of World War I , Eduard Koopmann was appointed Turkish consul in 1915 and since then has "[...] made great contributions to the initiation and development of German-Turkish trade relations".

In 1926, after the death of the company founder, the Koopmann silk house was continued by the son Ernst August Koopmann.

Ernst August Koopmann (1899–1940) was married to Elisabeth, née Bach (1907–1979). After coming to power of the Nazis , the couple emigrated with two sons in 1937 to New York. The mother Paula Bach, the sister of the writer Karl Schloß , followed in 1943.

Archival material

Archival material from and about the Koopmann family can be found, for example

literature

  • Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Seidenhaus Koopmann / Hanover, Georgstrasse 13-14 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), anniversary Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 261

Web links

Commons : Seidenhaus Koopmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg registry office 02: death register . No. 398/1926.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Seidenhaus Koopmann / Hannover, Georgstraße 13-14 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt ( Compilation of the image material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 261
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information in the Lower Saxony archive information system (Arcinsys)
personal data
SURNAME Koopmann, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, textile and silk entrepreneur, commercial judge and Turkish consul
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berne
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1926
Place of death Hamburg