Heinrich Adolf Mohrhoff
Heinrich Adolf Mohrhoff (born September 11, 1825 in Eitzendorf ; † July 12, 1908 in Blasewitz ) was a German businessman, founder and first chairman of Concordia .
Life
Heinrich Adolf Mohrhoff was a son of the Eitzendorfer sexton and schoolmaster Johann Friedrich Mohrhoff (1782–1868) and his wife Sophie Justine née Oeynhausen (around 1788–1864). Mohrhoff was a businessman and lived in Hoya from 1862 to 1874 in what is now called the “Mohrhoff House” at Kirchstrasse 31. On March 26, 1862, his “Thoughts on Insurance Against Fire Risks” appeared in the Hoyaer Wochenblatt. These considerations led to the establishment of the Hoyaschen Provincial-Mobiliar-Feuer-Versicherungsgesellschaft Concordia in the Gasthof Guénin in 1864. Mohrhoff was the first chairman of the insurance company and from 1869 to 1871 also mayor of Hoya. In 1874 he moved to Hanover with the Concordia . Initially, the apartment and the management were housed in what was then number 3 on Papenstieg. A few years later, they moved into a new building at Marienstraße 20. The building no longer exists today. It stood roughly at the place where today's Marienstraße 54 is located.
Mohrhoff's first wife Sophie (Charlotte Dorothea Henriette) née Ehlermann (* 1833) died in 1877. Mohrhoff had a daughter from his first marriage: Thekla (1869–1938).
Mohrhoff was the first chairman of Concordia until 1892. He handed over the chairmanship to Karl Domizlaff , who from 1893 traded with the Mobiliar-Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft Concordia in Marienstraße 20. Mohrhoff moved to Villa Moltke, located directly on the left bank of the Elbe , in Blasewitz at Johannstrasse 33 (previous resident was Henry von Burt ; from 1905 on Johannstrasse 35, now Dresden, Regerstrasse 2). In 1894 Mohrhoff donated valuable furnishings for the altar and pulpit to the church of St. Georg in his birthplace Eitzendorf. After his death in 1908, the widow Cäcilie Mohrhoff lived in Villa Moltke for two more years, which was rebuilt for Max Dudek and the company JH Dudek Söhne from the Zinkweißhütte Bernsdorf until 1911 .
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- ↑ Stamboom Driessen (accessed on 16 August 2018)
- ↑ Heinrich Adolf Mohrhoff in Gedbas (accessed on August 16, 2018)
- ^ Peter Koch : History of the insurance industry in Germany. Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft Karlsruhe 2012. ISBN 978-3-89952-371-3
- ↑ A big anniversary (accessed on August 16, 2018)
- ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover for 1874. Section I., 2. Street and house directory.
- ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover for 1876. Section I., 2. Street and house directory.
- ↑ According to an information board at the Mohrhoff House in Hoya (Kirchstrasse 31) (email from the Hoya City Archives of July 21, 2018 with a picture of the information board)
- ↑ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden 1893. Section I., 2. Street and house directory.
- ^ Address and business handbook for Blasewitz with Neugruna and Neuseidnitz 1893.
- ↑ "In 1894, Mayor Mohrhoff zu Dresden-Blasewitz gave our church (in Eitzendorf) valuable altar and pulpit clothing with rich gold embroidery, along with a white embroidered altar cover and two corresponding cupboard covers (after Pastor Soltmann, Eitzendorf)." From: Kurt Asendorf: Encounters and Personalities, Volume VI 1983 pp. 222–229
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs, 1909.
- ^ Barbara Bechter: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Part: Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin Munich 2005. Page 149. ISBN 978-3-422-03110-4
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1912. Page 31.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohrhoff, Heinrich Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, founder and first chairman of Concordia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eitzendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1908 |
| Place of death | Blowjoke |