Friedrich Bischoff (shipowner)

Friedrich Bischoff (born April 7, 1861 in Vegesack , † April 28, 1920 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German shipowner and businessman.

biography

Bischoff was the son of the ship owner Johann Dietrich Bischoff (1823-1893), who from 1859 owned a tramp shipping in Vegesack . From 1874 onwards, his father also used steamships, mainly on the Baltic Sea . Bischoff grew up in Hafenstrasse . In 1886 he married the merchant's daughter Marie Danziger (1864–1942) in Vegesack and moved into the newly built Villa Bischoff at Weserstraße 84, which he sold in 1910. From 1893 he led his father's company and soon converted it into a stock company.

In 1896 he sold most of his ships to the Argo Reederei in Bremen , which he co-founded that year, and became its director. With a fleet of 30 ocean-going vessels and a total tonnage of 44,504 GRT, the Argo was the fourth largest shipping company in Bremen in 1914 . After the First World War , he began to rebuild the Argo shipping company in 1919/20.

In 1893 he took part together with the shipbuilder Victor Nawatzki , the businessman Franz Ernst Schütte , the banker Bernhard Loose and the shipping company Wätjen in founding the shipyard Bremer Vulkan shipbuilding and engineering works in Vegesack . In 1896 he became chairman of the board of directors of the Vulkan shipyard.

In 1895 he participated together with Schütte, Loose and the insurance broker Henrich Wuppesahl in founding the Bremen-Vegesacker Fischerei-Gesellschaft AG. The JD Bischoff shipping company, however, was dissolved in 1899. Bischoff also founded a fruit trading company. He was a member of various supervisory boards, including the shipping company Deutsche Levante-Linie in Hamburg.

The Bischoff family grave is located in the Vegesack cemetery on Lindenstrasse .

Honors

• The Reeder-Bischoff-Straße in Bremen-Vegesack was named after him and his father.

literature

• Rolf Engelsing: Bischoff, Heinrich Friedrich. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Hrsg.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 45 (column 2) to p. 46 (column 1).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .