Georg Ludwig Pfeiffer

Georg Ludwig "Louis" Pfeiffer (born July 18, 1809 in Hanau ; † February 8, 1892 in Kassel ) was a German banker and first chairman of the Kassel Chamber of Commerce .

Life

banker

Louis Pfeiffer was the son of tobacco manufacturer Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779–1836). Carl Jonas Pfeiffer founded the tobacco factory Gebr. Pfeiffer together with his younger brother in Hanau in 1803 and relocated it to Kassel in 1818. There they also operated the exchange business . In 1836 Louis Pfeiffer joined his father's company as a partner. In 1846 he went into business for himself and founded the L. Pfeiffer banking house , which soon became a leading bank in Kassel. At the beginning of the 1870s, his two sons August Ludwig and Carl Pfeiffer joined the bank as partners.

Chamber official

In 1855, Louis Pfeiffer was one of the founders of the free association for trade and commerce in Kassel and was also chairman there for a time. After the annexation of Kurhesse by Prussia , he was one of the proponents of the establishment of a chamber of commerce based on the Prussian model and took over the constitution of the new chamber. On May 25, 1871 he was elected first chairman of the Kassel Chamber of Commerce. On January 1, 1874, he handed over the chairmanship to Oscar Henschel , but remained a simple member of the chamber until the end of 1879.

literature

• Harm-Hinrich Brandt : The Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its predecessors, 1763–1963, on the development of commercial self-administration. Kassel 1963, pp. 86-87.