Heinrich Alfred Michahelles

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Heinrich Alfred Michahelles (born November 29, 1853 in Hamburg ; † August 10, 1915 there ) was a businessman , industrialist and Hamburg senator .

Michahelles grew up in a wealthy and respected family in Hamburg. His grandfather founded the Michahelles brothers in 1806 , which has been successfully importing and trading coffee , sugar and rice since it was founded . Michahelle's aunt Berta, b. Michahelles (1822–1908), had married the Senator Carl Möring . After attending school in Hamburg, Michahelles completed a commercial apprenticeship and joined the Michahelles brothers as a partner on January 1, 1880 . Four years later he was the sole owner of the company. In the following year Michahelles founded a company together with Ferdinand Beit (1858–1928) to get into sugar processing. In 1891 this company founded a successful sugar refinery in Schulau , which employed 500 workers within a few years. In order to facilitate the delivery of sugar from the Elbe , Michahelles had the 750 m long cog railway built in the Schulau sugar factory in 1901 .

In addition to his business activities, Michahelles was a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1889 and was its President from 1903 to 1907. From 1898 to 1906 Michahelles was a member of the Hamburg citizenship . From 1903 to 1906 he was a member of the Deputation for Trade and Shipping. Michahelles was elected to the Senate on January 4, 1907, replacing the late Carl Mathies . On December 31, 1910, Michahelles resigned. Justus Strandes was his successor.

In the ranking list of wealthy people from Hamburg published in 1912, Michahelles was around 62nd with a fortune of 4.5 million marks. Michahelles was a member of the Norddeutsche Bank's supervisory board from 1905 until at least 1912 . He was also temporarily a member of the supervisory board of the Hamburger Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft .

His son, Otto, died as an air observer on the Western Front in February 1917.

literature

  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 , p. 107, Hamburg 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see German Gender Book Volume 19, p. 235
  2. ↑ see article 100 years of St. Marien in Wedel in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 12, 2004, accessed on September 8, 2008 under [1]
  3. ↑ see Rudolf Martin (ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the three Hansa cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), Berlin 1912; Hamburg part, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Michahelles, Heinrich Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1915
Place of death Hamburg