Geo Heinrich Plate

Geo Heinrich Plate (actually Georg Heinrich, born April 18, 1844 in Moscow , † February 4, 1914 in Neuglobsow ) was a German businessman. From 1892 to 1911 he was President of the Supervisory Board of Norddeutscher Lloyd .

family

Plate came from a long-established Bremen merchant family. His father Albert Friedrich Plate was a partner in a cotton trading and insurance company based in Moscow and Saint Petersburg . At the age of eight, Geo Plate came to Bremen with his brother Johann Emil, where he was supposed to attend school. He graduated from business school and completed a commercial apprenticeship.

Employment

Plate began his professional career in 1864 in his father's company in a branch in Ceylon . In 1870 he returned to Bremen, where he and his brother opened a cotton trading company. He was one of the founders of the Bremen Cotton Exchange , whose president he became in 1892. In the same year he took the presidency in the supervisory board of the North German Lloyd. He put Heinrich Wiegand through as the successor to the late Johann Georg Lohmann in the office of director of the company. With Wiegand he ensured a renewal of the imperial mail steamer fleet and set accents in the engagement of the major shipping company in East Asia and America.

Plate was involved in various ways in the Bremen economy and far beyond. From 1899 to 1903 he was President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . Among other things, he was a member of the supervisory boards of Deutsche Bank , Bremer Vulkan , the later Hansa-Lloyd -Werke and the Atlas-Werke .

From 1889 to 1911 he was a member of the board of directors of the Suez Canal Company .

Geo Plate spent the last years of his life on his estate near Neuglobsow , where he also died.

Honors

• Order of the Red Eagle , 2nd class with star
• Honorary member of the Shipbuilding Society

literature

• Reinhold Thiel: The history of the North German Lloyd 1857-1970 . 4 volumes, 2001.
• Hans-Jürgen Witthöft: Norddeutscher Lloyd , 1997, p. 44ff
• Lars U. Scholl:  Plate, Geo Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 508 f. ( Digitized version ).