Friedrich Leopold Loesener the Younger

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Friedrich Leopold Loesener (born October 13, 1834 in Magdeburg , † September 15, 1903 in Altona near Hamburg ) was a German merchant and shipowner as well as a member of the Hamburg parliament for the Left Center parliamentary group . He is considered to be the founder of the Hamburg villa district Hochkamp .

Portrait of Friedrich Leopold Loesener in oil (painted around 1890) in a black suit, brown background.
Friedrich Leopold Loesener in oil (painted around 1890). Painter unknown.

Life

Friedrich Leopold Loesener was born in 1834 as the son of the Royal Prussian Commerce Councilor Friedrich Leopold Loesener (born January 31, 1802 in Magdeburg; t July 1, 1866 in Magdeburg) and his wife Caroline Therese Wieler (born April 20, 1812 in Magdeburg; t June 1 1882 in Frankfurt / Oder) born in Magdeburg. After attending school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at his father's Loesener & Schoch coffee import company in Magdeburg . Then he fulfilled his military service in the Jäger Battalion in Sangerhausen .

At the age of 23, Loesener moved permanently to Hamburg, where he later founded the company Loesener, Nagel & Co. in 1858 . Which also Losener, Nagel & Co. companies mentioned among others the future entrepreneur and philanthropist worked Edmund Siemers .

In the following year 1859 Loesener married his wife Crisca or Crisia Auguste Caroline Harriet Sloman (born October 3, 1841 in Hamburg; t February 20, 1922 in Hochkamp / Hamburg), a daughter of the Hamburg shipowner Robert Miles Sloman junior (born July 30, 1812; † July 30, 1900 in Hamburg-Othmarschen) and Christine Amalia Roselia von Stephani (born April 9, 1819 in Tulczin / Russia; t March 18, 1878 in Hamburg) (10)

On January 1, 1872, his father-in-law founded the Rob shipping company with him. M. Sloman & Co., in order to reduce the entrepreneurial risk of taking up steam shipping from Rob. M. Sloman Jr. keep away. (11)

According to his father-in-law's wishes, he parted with Rob immediately after his death. M. Sloman & Co, who knew his son-in-law's passion for nature and hunting. Even at that time, his sons Friedrich Leopold Robert Loesener-Sloman (born March 4, 1864 in Hamburg; t March 27, 1936 in Hamburg) were partners in Rob. M. Sloman Jr. and Robert Eduard Loesener (born February 13, 1869 in Hamburg; t August 24 in Katharinenhof / Fehmarn) partner of Rob. M. Sloman & Co . (11)

From 1880 to 1886 Friedrich Loesener was a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Left Center parliamentary group . Initially on behalf of the Senate, who wanted to purchase a hunt for representative purposes, after the Senate dropped the project, he took it over at his own expense. In 1883 he had the Rixförde estate near Celle built with a spacious building in the so-called “ Swiss style ” for hunts for big game . According to reports from the Natural History Society of Hanover and Hermann Löns, he had non-native game released several times around 1900 and 1901, including crossbreeds of elk and red deer , and later crested quail from America . While the specimens of large game were shot completely, the naturalization attempts for the quail were just as unsuccessful as those of the tenant Blatte from Bremen in the hunting area Neubruchhausen-Ochtermannien .

As a member of the organizing committee of the Hamburger Kunstverein , Loesener stood in the year of the great art-historical cultural debates in Hamburg in 1896 on the side of the Hamburg businessman Robert Wichmann against the art historian and museum director Alfred Lichtwark .

According to his father-in-law's wishes, Friedrich Leopold Loesener was to continue not only his work, but also his name. Therefore, on the senior's 80th birthday (1892), the Senate gave its approval that his grandson Friedrich Leopold Robert Loesener could in future bear the name Loesener-Sloman. By resolution of the Senate of October 20, 1902, it was decreed that the descendants of Loesener-Sloman should only bear the name Sloman in the future. (11)

In 1891 his daughter-in-law Mary, née Albers, gave birth to the later writer Mary Lavater-Sloman (* December 14, 1891 Hamburg, † December 5, 1980 Zurich).

At the end of the 19th century, Friedrich Leopold Loesener bought a 100-hectare beet field area from farmers in Osdorf, Nienstedten and Dockenhude, which at that time was located in Schleswig-Holstein , which he then designed together with the planner Ferdinand Ancker as a residential area with, among other things, streets opened up. They then signed a contract with the Royal Altona Railway Directorate for the construction of a local train station and from the beginning had a so-called villa clause entered in the land registers of their parcels, which would protect the entire quarter of the Hamburg suburb of the Elbe in the 21st century before structural growth and disintegration protects.

Friedrich Leopold Loesener died on September 15, 1903 in Hamburg.

Archival material

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o.V. : Friedrich Loesener , in: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Vol. 5, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1904, p. 68, especially 74f .; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the German biography
  3. ↑ a b Gisela Schütte: Hochkamp - From Rübenacker to Villa Quarter / Clause for the Elbe suburb guarantees the stability of the real estate in the millions on the website of the daily newspaper Die Welt on September 6, 2003, last accessed on May 10, 2017
  4. ^ Johannes Gerhardt: Edmund Siemers. Entrepreneurs and Founders (= patrons for science , vol. 16) ed. by Ekkehard Nümann, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943423-16-7 and ISSN 1864-3248, pp. 130-210; freely available as a PDF document from the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library Hamburg , last accessed on May 10, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  6. ↑ Julia Ricker: The garden pavilion on Gut Rixförde is in danger / Crumbling comfort on the monumente-online.de page from 2015, last accessed on May 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Annual Report of the Natural History Society , Vol. 48/49, [after 1897], pp. 129, 131; Preview over google books
  8. ^ Hermann Löns: Nachgelassene Schriften ... , Hesse & Becker, 1928, pp. 36–39; Preview over google books
  9. ^ Carolyn Helen Kay: Art and the German bourgeoisie. Alfred Lichtwark and modern painting in Hamburg, 1886 - 1914 (in English), Toronto; Buffalo; London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8020-0922-0 , p. 93, especially 100; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Loesener, Friedrich Leopold the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loesener, Friedrich Leopold; Loesener, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and shipowner, member of the Hamburg parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1903
Place of death Altona near Hamburg