Gustav Adolf Schön

Gustav Adolf Schön (born October 25, 1834 in St. Thomas , Danish West Indies , † April 12, 1889 in Paris ) was an entrepreneur, politician and soil speculator who was particularly concerned with the development and expansion of Berlin-Weißensee in the early days has earned.

Life

Born as the second son of the Hamburg shipowner August Joseph Schön , he spent his childhood with his brothers Christian August Wilhelm Schön (1828–1898) and Anton Matthias Schön (1837–1922) on the Virgin Islands .

In 1854 he took over the trading company J. Greve & Co. in Hamburg. From 1857 he was a partner in the Hamburg company GA Schön & Co . Schön was involved in a variety of ways, he worked as honorary consul for the Dominican Republic and he was President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1868 to 1869 . He also participated in several deputations , such as the deputation for trade, shipping and trade, the finance deputation and in the deputation for indirect taxes. From 1871 to 1874 he was a member of the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party as the successor to Edgar Daniel Roß . In 1875 the company G. A. Schön & Co had to be liquidated , its sailing ships could no longer hold their own against the new steamers.

The Hamburg lawyer and politician Alexander Schön (1864–1941) was his son.

Speculation in Weißensee

Schön foresaw that Berlin would grow and thanks to his brother Anton Matthias Schön, his sister-in-law Albertine Amalie Schön, his cousin Amalie Schön and the banking house of Friedrich Martin von Magnus , Gustav Adolf Schön managed to finance his economic plans.

In 1872 he bought the Weissensee manor for 700,000 thalers from Friedrich Wilhelm Lüdersdorff , the nephew of Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius , with the aim of dividing it up and selling it speculatively . By 1874 he managed to sell most of the land. In order to benefit from the onset of construction, he founded a construction company with Hermann Roelcke , Ernst Gäbler and the Busse & Co. bank .

In 1874 Gustav Adolf moved to Paris . Before that he founded the Weißensee Actien-Gesellschaft , whereby he relinquished his chairmanship of the supervisory board to his brother Anton Matthias Schön, who then sold the remaining properties .

The two streets Gustav-Adolf-Straße and Schönstraße in Berlin-Weißensee have been named after him since around 1874 and 1884, respectively.

Weißenseer street names

Numerous supporters of Gustav Adolf are immortalized in the names of the streets in the founding district in Berlin-Weißensee:

Albertinenstrasse: after his sister-in-law, wife of his brother Christian
Amalienstraße : after his cousin
Antonplatz : after his brother
Gäblerstraße: after the co-founder of his construction company
Magnusstraße: after the owner of the financing bank of the same name (renamed today)
Roelckestrasse : after the co-founder of his construction company

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . 27th volume. Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 232 .
↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. (No longer available online.) Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, II. Session 1871. Volume 1, Berlin 1871, p. XXIII ( digitized version ). Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, III. Session 1872. Volume 1, Berlin 1872, p. XXIV ( digitized version ). Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, IV. Session 1873. Volume 1, Berlin 1873, p. XXIII ( digitized version )
↑ Schönstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert ) Schönstraße . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, Part 4, p. 1972.

personal data
SURNAME	Fine, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, speculator and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Thomas , Danish West Indies
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1889
Place of death	Paris

[1] Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . 27th volume. Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 232 .

[2] The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. (No longer available online.) Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, II. Session 1871. Volume 1, Berlin 1871, p. XXIII ( digitized version ). Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, III. Session 1872. Volume 1, Berlin 1872, p. XXIV ( digitized version ). Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, IV. Session 1873. Volume 1, Berlin 1873, p. XXIII ( digitized version )

[4] Schönstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert ) Schönstraße . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, Part 4, p. 1972.