Gustav Kulenkampff (politician)

Gustav Kulenkampff , also Johann Gustav Kulenkampff (born February 19, 1811 in Bremen , † March 11, 1878 in Meran ), was a German businessman and politician.

biography

Kulenkampff was the son of the businessman Caspar Gottlieb Kulenkampff (1769-1838), owner of the company Gebr. Kulenkampff , founded in 1801 , a trading company and shipping company in Bremen on Martinistraße and then on Domsheide . His mother was Johanna Heineken (1788–1863) from the Heineken merchant family. Gustav Kulenkampff completed a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company and expanded his commercial training from 1831 to 1835 in Baltimore , USA. In 1835 he became a partner in Gebr. Kulenkampff . At that time the trade in cotton and tobacco was paramount.

In 1840 Kulenkampff was appointed to the Bremen Citizens' Convention . On behalf of the Bremen Senate, he and Hermann Henrich Meier took part in negotiations on shipping connections from the Weser to America by the Ocean Steam Navigation Company , when there was a risk of having to surrender the concession for the operation of the line to the competition from Antwerp . From 1848 to 1849 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and participated in the formulation of a new constitution for Bremen. From 1851 to 1854 he was again in the citizenry, from 1852 as a representative of the 2nd class, the merchant class. He was the spokesman for the merchants, who in 1852 represented a conservative revision of the constitution, worked out with him and enforced it. He was a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, which was newly founded in 1849, from 1849 to 1859. In 1857 he was one of the co-founders of North German Lloyd (NDL) and a member of the first NDL board of directors.

In 1848, Kulenkampff had the Kulenkampff house built in Bremen - Mitte, Domsheide No. 3. He was married and had 14 children.

Honors

The Kulenkampffallee in Bremen- Schwachhausen is named after him and his family.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .