Eduard Nebelthau

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Johann Christof Eduard Nebelthau (born August 21, 1902 in Halle (Saale) , † June 21, 1971 in Dornbirn in Austria ) was a German freight forwarder and entrepreneur . For many years he headed the then commercial forwarding company JH Bachmann in Bremen and was Danish honorary consul in Bremen from 1954 and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1964 to 1965 .

biography

Nebelthau belonged to the Bremen merchant family "Bachmann / Dubbers", which has been owned by the Bremen forwarding and trading company J.H. since the company was founded in 1775. Bachmann (JHB) was. Nebelthau was born in Halle an der Saale and grew up in Bremen, where 1921 he at Old School graduated. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in the family business JHB, which has been run by his uncle August Dubbers (1873-1959) since 1909, and then went on several study trips to the USA, Spain, France and the Middle East.

In 1931 Nebelthau started as an authorized signatory at JH Bachmann, in 1937 he became a partner in the family business and joined the company management alongside his uncle. Under their joint management “the company survived the losses during the Second World War and successfully mastered the reconstruction in the post-war period ”. The "traditional company" was expanded by Dubbers and Nebelthau, in addition to the previous focus of activities such as wine trade , coffee and cotton transport and storage , to an international freight forwarding company and entered the air freight business in 1950 .

After the death of his uncle in 1959, Eduard Nebelthau took over the sole management of the commercial forwarding company JH Bachmann, whose area of ​​activity he expanded from 1960 with the establishment of international representative offices. Later, the clerk Rita Dubbers-Albrecht joined the company and, as a descendant of Johann Christoph Bachmann, took over the management of the family business in the sixth generation.

Nebelthau was appointed Danish Honorary Consul in Bremen in 1954; the Danish consulate in Bremen was (and is) in the Bremer Kontorhaus of the commercial forwarding company JH Bachmann, whose owner family "Dubbers" has traditionally been consular for Denmark in the Hanseatic city of Bremen since 1865. He was also chairman of the Bremen Freight Forwarders Association from 1961 to 1969 and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1964 to 1965.

Eduard Nebelthau was married to Wilhelma Hildegard, called Hilda, née Feldhusen. He died of a heart attack in 1971 at the age of 68, and his wife was very old in 2004. The couple who lost their child at the age of 3 were very fond of children. With their estate , a number of Bremen institutions have been given funding.

Honors

The rescue boat Eduard Nebelthau (2018)
  • Since 1972 the sea ​​rescue boat Eduard Nebelthau of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) has been named after him. The merchant family "Bachmann / Dubbers", as the owner family of the Bremen "traditional company with reference to seafaring ", JH Bachmann, was traditionally connected to the Bremen-based DGzRS and promoted it; so did Eduard Nebelthau.
  • The Nebelthau-Gymnasium (also Eduard-Nebelthau-Gymnasium ) located in the Bremen district of Lesum in Bremen- Burglesum , a Protestant private school founded by the Friedehorst Foundation in 2007 , was named after him. Start-up funding of around 500,000 euros came from the estate of the married couple Eduard and Hilda Nebelthau  .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: information on JH Bachmann . In: Employee and customer magazine Imperial News , No. 1/2000, pp. 4–9; PDF file, 3.94 MB, accessed June 3, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.panopa.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e f The namesake ( memento from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). On: Website of the Nebelthau-Gymnasium Friedehorst Foundation , Bremen; Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ Corinna Laubach: "For us, Bremen is the center of the world" . In: Die Welt from August 17, 2000; Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Notes: The Danish consulate in Bremen is still located in the former office building of the former freight forwarding and trading company JH Bachmann on the Bremen Schlachte ; The acting Danish honorary consul has been the Bremen entrepreneur Eduard Dubbers-Albrecht since 2000 as consular successor to his mother, Rita Dubbers-Albrecht, who in turn represented the Kingdom of Denmark in 1972, succeeding Eduard Nebelthau. See press release of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on July 6, 2000; Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c Bremen gets a Protestant grammar school . In: Press release of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from April 25, 2006; Retrieved June 3, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Nebelthau, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nebelthau, Johann Christof Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freight forwarder, entrepreneur and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1971
Place of death Dornbirn , Austria