Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen (1803-1882)

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Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen (* 1803 in Bremen ; † August 11, 1882 in Bremen- Oberneuland ) was a Bremen businessman and founder of the Nielsen brothers .

Advertising stamp with Franz I and advertisement for rice starch

biography

Nielsen was the son of the businessman Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen . He married Amalie Catharina Paazig (1805–?) In 1827; both had two children. His son Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen (1828–1895) took over the company.

In 1812 he inherited the spice shop from his father and continued the business. He also acquired a lime kiln , a cement factory and a building materials business. In 1837 he and his brother Anton Heinrich founded the Nielsen brothers company . Their office was in Schlachte No. 15. In 1837 they both built a bread factory and sold it in 1841 in favor of a sawmill with a steam engine, for the production of boards for cigar boxes. In 1845 they bought a sugar factory. In 1841 the rice business started, in 1844 they imported rice and in 1862 they founded a rice mill . In 1874 the rice starch factory Roland-Mühle was incorporated . The company was now called Gebr. Nielsen, Zuckerfabrik, Reismühle and Reisstarchefabrik . The headquarters of the factories was the Stephanitorsbulwerk, west of the Stephaniviertel . From 1877 the production of sugar was stopped again.

Family grave in the Waller Friedhof

After the company's founder died in 1894, the company was converted into a stock corporation (AG) in which the family held the majority. The company was transferred to the Reis- und Handels-Aktiengesellschaft , newly founded in 1901 , an association of numerous north German rice mills based in Bremen under the leadership of Andreas Rickmers (see also Rickmers Reederei and Rickmers Reismühlen GmbH ).

The family grave FCF Nielsen is located in the Waller Friedhof in Bremen. It is a striking, Gothic-style complex (location: 53 ° 6 ′ 23.2 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 2.3 ″  E ).

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