George Henry Lütgens

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George Henry Lütgens (1905)

George Henry Lütgens (born July 1, 1856 in Hamburg ; † March 25, 1928 at Tannenhöft , Großhansdorf ) was a Hamburg shipowner and politician .

Life

Henry Lütgens , family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

George Henry Lütgens was born as the son of the shipowner Johann Friedrich Lütgens and joined the family business Lütgens & Reimers, run by his father, on March 30, 1875 . Lütgens & Reimers started as a small Ewerführer company , which was able to expand very successfully during the growth phase of the Port of Hamburg from 1870 to 1910. The company name still lives on today.

After the death of his father, Lütgens inherited the company and successfully expanded it. In 1907 Lütgens bought a plot of land near Großhansdorf at the gates of Hamburg and in the following years had Rudolph Jürgens build a landscape garden, the Arboretum Tannenhöft . This landscape garden and the existing buildings have been used by today's Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics since 1948 .

From 1901 to 1918 Lütgens was a member of the Hamburg parliament . He was a member of the parliamentary group on the left . From 1918 he belonged to the faction of the National Liberal Party .

Henry Lütgens was buried in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of ​​the Johann Friedrich Lütgens family grave (grid square P 25, north of the water tower ).

literature

  • Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - garden artwork and arboretum . In: M. Liesebach, BR Stephan (Ed.): Tannenhöft - 90 years of the Arboretum - 50 years of the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding . Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management, Hamburg 1998, p. 10ff. ( PDF , accessed February 3, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see archive link ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. L & R Lütgens & Reimers, accessed June 18, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.urag.de
personal data
SURNAME Lütgens, George Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg shipowner and politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1928
Place of death Großhansdorf