Gustav Lahusen

Gustav Lahusen (born November 23, 1854 in Bremen , † April 6, 1939 in Bremen ) was a merchant and board member of Nordwolle and first chairman of the board of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen .

biography

Lahusen was born as the son of the merchant Christian Lahusen , who founded the Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei AG (" North Wool ") in Bremen . His mother Anna Lahusen (1824-1893) was the daughter of the Mayor of Bremen Diederich Meier . He studied at the University of Bonn . In 1874 he became a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn .

Gustav Lahusen joined the family business CF Lahusen after completing his training . At times he managed the extensive lands of the Lahusen family for sheep breeding in Uruguay and Argentina and, in 1885, joined the board of directors of the Nordwolle Group, founded by his father shortly before, together with his brother Carl , whose headquarters had since been moved from Bremen to Delmenhorst . His brother Johann Carl Lahusen later took over the management of the group. In 1887 he left again and in the following year became the first chairman of the supervisory board of the new jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen .

In 1905 Lahusen acquired the noble Grabau estate in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1906 to 1908 he had the Grabau mansion built there, designed by the Berlin architect Hermann Werle. Before the First World War, Gut Grabau was regarded as a "model dairy farm". After the bankruptcy of Nordwolle, Gustav Lahusen sold Gut Grabau to the Oldeslo margarine manufacturer Friedrich Bölck (1877-1940).

Lahusen married in 1879. His wife Ida was the sister-in-law of his brother (Johann) Carl Lahusen and the daughter of the Anglican pastor Duncan Mathias of noble origin. The couple had five daughters and three sons. Daughter Violet founded the Meyer-Lahusen family branch in Bremen . Daughter Marie married into the Bremer Kulenkampff dynasty .

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gustav Lahusen died in Switzerland. At his own request, he was buried in the family grave of the Grabau cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grabau, yesterday, today, tomorrow . No. 70 2015, p. 33f (PDF)
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 399
3. ^ Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval Staff: The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume , Heritage Books, 2001, ISBN 0-7884-1872-6

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Historical society of the artists' association (ed.): Bremische Biographie des 19. Century. Winter, Bremen 1912, reprint: Schünemann, Bremen 1976.