Engelbert Hardt
Engelbert Hardt (born June 24, 1847 in Duisburg , † November 4, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and banker .
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Engelbert Hardt received his first commercial training in the cloth factory Johann Wülfing & Sohn in Lennep, which is part of his relatives, and then worked for five years at Hardt & Co. in New York City , which his uncle Richard von Hardt founded and joined in 1873 as Partner entered. He was appointed to the headquarters of Hardt & Co. in Berlin in 1875 and also became a partner here. He then took a long trip to the branches in South America to get to know the local business. It was not until 1878 that he moved entirely to the German capital of Berlin. After the company's founders died, he managed the company with the support of Heinrich von Tiedemann-Seeheim , Richard von Hardt's son-in-law, his brothers Hugo and Gustav Hardt and his son Gustav Engelbert Hardt.
Engelbert Hardt was a member of the supervisory boards of Disconto-Gesellschaft , Deutsche Lloyd, International Lloyd and various insurance companies in Berlin as deputy chairman. He was also a member of the shareholders' committee at the Reichsbank as well as the supervisory board of Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in (Dortmund-) Hörde, the Landbank in Berlin and the starch sugar factory CA Kühlmann & Co. in Frankfurt an der Oder and many charitable organizations.
In 1912 Engelbert Hardt was the second largest taxpayer in Charlottenburg after Werner von Siemens , and thus made a significant contribution to regional development. He carried the honorary title of a (royal Prussian) secret commercial councilor . He found his final resting place in the Lichterfelde park cemetery .
family
Engelbert Hardt married Elisabeth Storp-Hergersberg in 1880 (born January 6, 1858 in Buenos Aires ). Her parents were August Storp-Hergersberg (born May 11, 1818 in Warendorf , † April 14, 1866 in Buenos Aires) and Elisabeth Storp-Hergersberg, b. Scheffer-Boichorst (born October 10, 1833, † August 1, 1914 in Bad Harzburg ). There were two children from the marriage.
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Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, holdings 122, Johann Wülfing & Sohn / Hardt family archive
Web links
- Short biography on the website friedparks.de des Grabstättenerhaltung Berlin e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engelbert Hardt. Grave site preservation Berlin e. V., friedparks.de, accessed on December 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hardt, Engelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |