Friedrich Ludwig Weusthoff

Friedrich Ludwig Weusthoff (born May 3, 1795 in Celle ; † March 24, 1879 in Harburg an der Elbe ) was a German merchant.

In 1827 he moved with his wife Amalie nee. Kort to Harburg and opened the "En Gros" store there.

Between 1852 and 1871 he was mayor . In 1866 he was elected President of the Harburg, Winsen , Soltau and Tostedt Chamber of Commerce . In 1868 he took part in the negotiations of the fourth German Trade Conference as a representative of this organization and the local trade association. From 1870 to 1879 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . There he represented the 17th constituency of the province of Hanover . From 1872 he lived in Berlin , but returned to Harburg in 1876.

In 1897 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Harburg in what is now Hamburg . There the former Bartelsstraße was named after him in the Heimfeld district . Amalienstraße was named after his wife as early as 1875 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Negotiations of the fourth German Trading Conference: shorthand report, volume 4 digitized
2. ^ Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques: supplément. Leipzig, 1882 p. 282, Jürgen Ellermeyer u. a .: From the castle to the industrial city: Contributions to the history of Harburg, 1288–1938. Hamburg, 1988
3. ↑ Rita Bake - Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg, page 23, State Center for Civic Education 2011, ISBN 978-3-929728-70-5

literature

• H. Beckershaus, HO Möller: The Hamburg street names. Where do they come from and what they mean. Complete from A to Z. 5th edition. The Hanse, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-52603-X .
• Weusthoffstrasse . In: W. Becker, A. Tiedemann: Harburg from A to Z. The district lexicon. , Medien-Verlag Schubert, 2001, ISBN 3-929229-82-X , p. 89 (excerpt: PDF, 2.2 MiB ).