Friedrich Kühne (businessman)

Friedrich Kühne (born February 4, 1824 in Magdeburg , † April 19, 1890 in Paris ) was a German-American businessman and banker.

Life

Friedrich Kühne came from a wealthy family of farmers and entrepreneurs from the Harz foreland. After completing his commercial training, he started working for Knauth & Esche, Leipzig wholesalers who also did business in the USA . Friedrich Kühne sent this company to New York City in 1850 as a representative . In 1852, Kühne became a partner in the newly founded Bankhaus Knauth, Nachod & Kühne , which soon assumed a leading position in transatlantic financial transactions. Kühne became a US citizen and made a name for himself in New York City's business and political circles. Kühne was a supporter of the Northern States and the Republican Party during the Civil War , which put him up as an elector in the US presidential elections in 1872 and 1876. Until the founding of the North German Confederation , he acted as consul for a number of small German states . He had four children with his wife, Ellen Josephine (née Miller). His eldest son Percival followed him as a partner at Knauth, Nachod and Kühne . The family grave is located in Green-Wood Cemetery in New York.

literature

Henry Hall: Frederick Kuehne In: America's successful men of affairs. An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography. The New York tribune, New York 1895, pp. 375-376 (online at archive.org, English).
Obituary in the New York Times of April 20, 1890: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60B14FC345D11738DDDA90A94DC405B8085F0D3

Individual evidence

↑ As consul he supplied the governments of the states he represented (e.g. in the Principality of Lippe) with printed brochures and current information, in: Consular report on the trade of the United States of America (New York 1860). Also Carsten Doerfert, Lippes Mann in New York, in: Heimatland Lippe 2016, p. 314.
^ Friedrich Kühne in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Kühne, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kuehne, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1890
Place of death	Paris , France

[1] As consul he supplied the governments of the states he represented (e.g. in the Principality of Lippe) with printed brochures and current information, in: Consular report on the trade of the United States of America (New York 1860). Also Carsten Doerfert, Lippes Mann in New York, in: Heimatland Lippe 2016, p. 314.

[2] Friedrich Kühne in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.