Emil Minlos

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Emil Minlos

Emil August Adolph Minlos (born November 1, 1828 in Lübeck , † August 31, 1901 in Travemünde ) was a German merchant, royal Prussian consul in Maracaibo and social reformer in Lübeck, Hamburg and Berlin.

Life

origin

Minlos was the son of the Lübeck businessman and underwriter Hans Simon Minlos (born October 13, 1799 in Lübeck; † April 27, 1847 ibid) and his wife Dorothea Adolphine Friederike, née. Sager (born September 2, 1803 in Lübeck as the daughter of the owner of the Löwen pharmacy, Adolph Christoph Sager ).

Commercial career

Minlos was a successful merchant in South America in the coffee trade operating was a time when coffee from luxury to mass-produced articles and South America is the world's coffee-growing region. At the same time, Hamburg became one of the most important European import ports for coffee. Minlos arrived on November 11, 1852, from Curaçao , in Venezuela , a country in whose mountain regions a particularly high quality coffee grows, and settled in the port city of Maracaibo . During this time, Maracaibo developed into one of the largest export ports in Venezuela and became a center for German, mainly Hamburg, merchants. Here Minlos initially worked as an employee of the Schmilinsky & Montovio company until he became the daughter of his employer, the Italian businessman José Antonio Montovio Casanova, Dolores Joséfa Montovio García Herreros (born May 4, 1835 in Maracaibo; † January 2, 1894 in Berlin) and with his father-in-law founded the company Montovio, Minlos & Co. , which was already one of the leading companies in the area in 1854. In 1858 Minlos was appointed the first royal Prussian consul in Maracaibo "because of his practical knowledge and other good qualities" . He held this office until his resignation in 1866. His successor as consul was Heinrich E. Breuer from Buxtehude , with whom he founded the company Minlos, Breuer & Co in 1860 . In 1872, 77% of the coffee exports, which made up almost all of Maracaibo's foreign trade, were in the hands of five German companies; Minlos, Breuer & Co. was the largest of these, and in 1889 it was still the largest company in Maracaibo. Minlos remained a partner even after his return to Germany and in 1883, together with his son Federico, was still involved in founding a subsidiary in Bucaramanga , Colombia . At the end of 1895 the company was split into two companies: Minlos, Witzke & Co. and Breuer, Möller & Co.

Social welfare

Lübeck town house
Minlos 'hereditary funeral in the Burgtorfriedhof after Emil Minlos' funeral in 1901
Detail: family name with putto
Detail: angel

In 1876 Minlos returned to Europe and settled in his hometown Lübeck as a reindeer . Here, inspired by the writings of Count Rumford , he founded the "Association for People's Coffee and Dining Halls" in 1881, which ran a people's kitchen at 14 Fünfhausen . In line with Minlos' professional background, serving coffee played an important role. By issuing an inexpensive lunch without the economies usual drinking coercion and the serving of coffee instead of alcohol should alcoholism be prevented. The people's kitchen was run by women of the wealthy classes; the board was formed by Ms. Rittscher and Ms. Eschenburg . When Minlos moved to Hamburg in 1884, the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities awarded him a rare honorary membership in recognition of his charitable work in his hometown . In 1904 the public kitchen was taken over by the non-profit organization.

At his new place of residence in Hamburg, Minlos founded on November 17, 1887 with five like-minded gentlemen also a non-profit "Association for People's Coffee Halls ". Here, as before in Lübeck, Minlos was the central organizational figure.

Minlos pursued the same endeavors after he moved to Berlin , where in 1888 he moved into the building at Tiergartenstrasse 22 , which Hermann von der Hude had built for him and which no longer exists today . There, too, he founded people's dining halls in a very similar way in community with like-minded people, later expanded to include a journeyman's home. He also devoted himself to efforts to maintain the health of young people through holiday camps . Such a home was created thanks to his efforts and foundations on the Baltic Sea .

After the death of his wife in 1894, Minlos withdrew more and more from the public. Due to his poor health, he moved from Berlin to Wiesbaden in 1900 . However, he kept his summer villa in Travemünde in front row 61, where he sought relief from his lung disease every summer . He died here in August 1901. On the occasion of his death, his services to the people's welfare were recognized not only in the Lübeck, Hamburger and Berliner newspapers, but in the entire German press.

On September 4, 1901, he was buried in the grave that he had created years earlier for himself and his family members in the Burgtorfriedhof of Pastor Trummer , chief pastor of the Petrikirche .

In the week after his death , the 21st annual meeting of the German Association for Poor Care and Charity was held in the former Minlos'schen house on Königstraße , where the "Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities" has been based since 1891 . The speaker referred to this fact and praised the services of the deceased.

family

Travemuende summer villa
Xenerpestes minlosi , named after Emilio Minlos

Emil and Dolores Minlos were married to nine children. A daughter married a business partner of her father, Christian Friedrich Witzke, a partner in the company Minlos, Witzke & Co, who was one of the leading businessmen in Maracaibo in the 1890s. One son, Roberto Minlos, was a major shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of the Gran Ferrocarril del Táchira railway company and of the Suratá and Río de Oro mining company in the 1890s. Another son, Emilio José Minlos, who lived as a merchant in Bucaramanga, collected native birds that had been shot by Indians and donated his collection of around 800 specimens to the Natural History Museum in Lübeck. From this collection, Hans von Berlepsch described two bird species for the first time, which he named after Emilio Minlos: Thryophilus rufalbus minlosi in 1884 in the Journal for Ornithology and Xenerpestes minlosi in 1886 in the magazine Ibis . Three other sons, Hans Simon (* June 18, 1871; † October 2, 1891), Federico José (* September 1, 1857 Maracaibo, † May 20, 1888 Bucaramanga) and Ingo Bernhard José (* January 16, 1875 Berlin, † May 9, 1921 Hamburg), as well as the daughter Isabella Joséfa (* July 13, 1867 Travemünde, † August 7, 1929 ibid) are buried in Minlos'schen hereditary funeral in the Burgtorfriedhof.

Emil Minlos Foundation

After the death of the daughter Isabella Joséfa in 1929, the Travemünder Villa became the property of the Emil Minlos Foundation, which operated the Emil Minlos Home for women in need of relaxation in the building.

In 1973, the previous use of the building had to be discontinued for reasons of building law. In the autumn of 1973 the building, which was now a listed building, was sold and the independent foundation was dissolved. Her fortune went to the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . An inscription on the facade of the front row 61 still reminds of the Emil Minlos Foundation.

Awards

  • Honorary membership in the Lübeck "Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities"

literature

  • Emil Minlos †. In: Father-city sheets. No. 34, edition of September 8, 1901.
  • Emil Minlos. In: Father-city sheets. No. 35, edition of September 15, 1901.

Web links

Commons : Emil Minlos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Julia Laura Rischbieter: Micro-economy of globalization. Coffee, merchants and consumers in the German Empire 1870–1914. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20772-4 , pp. 35–36, 51–53, 59, 348.
  2. Julia Laura Rischbieter: Micro-economy of globalization. Coffee, merchants and consumers in the German Empire 1870–1914 , pp. 42–45.
  3. a b Michael Zeuske: Trasfondos del conflicto de 1902: cónsules, comerciantes y política alemanes en las Venezuelas del siglo XIX . In: Böttcher, Nikolaus; Hausberger, Bernd (Ed.): Dinero y negocios en la historia de América Latina. Money and Business in Latin American History. Veinte ensayos dedicados a ReinhardLiehr / Twenty essays, dedicated to Reinhard Liehr . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 413–452 (Spanish, academia.edu [accessed on March 11, 2016] accessible after registration).
  4. ^ A b c d e Germán Cardozo Galué: Impacto del comercio alemán en la economía regional marabina (1870-1900) - Impact of German trade in Marabina regional economy (1870-1900) . In: Memorias. Revista digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe Colombiano . tape 10 , no. 20 (May – August), 2013, ISSN  1794-8886 (Spanish, rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co [PDF; accessed March 11, 2016]).
  5. So Cardozo Galue; after Zeuske with his brother-in-law.
  6. ^ According to Zeuske: on November 27, 1859
  7. ^ Rolf Walter : Venezuela and Germany (1815-1870) (= contributions to economic and social history. Volume 22). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03937-6 , p. 292.
  8. Royal Prussian State Gazette of April 7, 1866.
  9. ^ A b María Fernanda Duque Castro: Comerciantes y empresarios de Bucaramanga (1857-1885): una aproximación desde el neoinstitucionalismo . In: Historia Crítica . No. 29 (January-June). Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de los Andes, 2005, ISSN  1900-6152 , p. 149–184 (Spanish, historiacritica.uniandes.edu.co [accessed March 11, 2016]).
  10. Carreno Tarazona, Clara Inés: Puertos locales y bienes de consumo: importación de mercancías finas en Santander, Colombia, 1870-1900 . In: Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online] . tape 22 , no. 1 , 2015, ISSN  2007-3496 , p. 85–114 (Spanish, scielo.org.mx [accessed March 11, 2016]).
  11. ^ Lina Morgenstern : Women's work in Germany. Volume 2. Publishing house of the “Dt. Housewife's Newspaper ”, 1895, p. 125.
  12. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter . No. 27, April 2, 1884 edition.
  13. ^ The Literary Digest . Volume 3, 1891, p. 400 ( digitized version ).
  14. Julia Laura Rischbieter: Micro-economy of globalization. Coffee, merchants and consumers in the German Empire 1870–1914. P. 283, note 126.
  15. ^ E. Hirschberg: The social situation of the working classes in Berlin. Liebmann, Berlin 1897, p. 47 ( digitized version ; PDF, 27 MB).
  16. Der Arbeiterfreund: Journal of the Central Association in Prussia for the welfare of the working classes. Volume 37, published by Otto Janke & Company, 1899.
  17. ^ Emil Minlos †. In: Lübeck advertisements . Number 440, evening edition of August 31, 1901.
  18. ^ Grave site Mar-A-42- I / II, see Lübeck cemeteries: Burgtorfriedhof. Information brochure 2002, p. 55 (No. 42).
  19. Hans von Berlepsch: Studies on the birds of the area around Bucaramanga in New Granada. In: Journal of Ornithology. 32, 1884, pp. 273-320 doi: 10.1007 / BF02007350 , here p 280.
  20. ^ Hans von Berlepsch: On some interesting additions to the Avifauna of Bucaramanga, US of Colombia. In: IBIS. 28 1884, pp. 53-57, doi: 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1886.tb06269.x .
  21. Gerhard Gaul : Thoughts became words: speeches. Hansisches Verlagkontor, Lübeck 1981, p. 38.
  22. ^ Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  23. ^ W. Kohlhammer: The old city. Volume 5, 1978.
  24. 200 years of persistence and change in bourgeois community spirit - Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck 1789–1989. P. 168 ff.