Heinrich Dohrn

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Heinrich Dohrn

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (born April 16, 1838 in Braunschweig , † October 1, 1913 in Florence ) was a German entrepreneur, zoologist and politician. He was a member of the German Reichstag and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and City Councilor of Stettin .

Life

Heinrich Dohrn came from a wealthy family of entrepreneurs and merchants from Szczecin. His grandfather of the same name, Heinrich Dohrn, was one of the founders of the Pomeranian Provincial Sugar Boiler Company , while his father, Carl August Dohrn, was an important entomologist in addition to his professional activity . Heinrich Dohrn attended the universities of Bonn , Zurich and Berlin from 1856 to 1861 to study natural sciences and obtained his doctorate in 1861. phil. In 1856 he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn . He undertook extensive trips, including a major one in West Africa from 1864 to 1866 , where he carried out zoological research, but fell ill on Prince Island , from which he would not fully recover throughout his life.

H. Dohrn arranged for a replica of the Colleoni equestrian statue of Andrea del Verrocchio in Stettin

From 1866 he promoted public and commercial interests in Szczecin . In 1870 he co-founded the shipping company Baltischer Lloyd , which set up a direct shipping line to New York, but had to cease its operations in August 1874. In 1872 he founded the Association for the Promotion of Overseas Trade Relations . From 1879 to 1913 he was on the board of directors of the Pomeranian Provincial Sugar Brewery founded by his grandfather. He was also one of the initiators of the Szczecin City Museum , founded in 1913 , where he put on a collection of antiquities.

From 1869 to 1878 and from 1890 until his death he was an unpaid city ​​councilor in Stettin, and between 1878 and 1890 as a city ​​councilor . Since 1904 he was an honorary citizen of Szczecin. He was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1874 to 1879 for Randow - Greifenhagen . He was a member of the Reichstag from 1874 to 1878 and 1881 to 1884 for the constituency of Usedom - Wollin - Ueckermünde , as well as from 1890 to 1893 for the constituency Schwerin - Wittenberge and from 1907 to 1912 for Stettin City. He switched from the National Liberal Party , to the Liberal Association , the German Liberal Party and ultimately to the Liberal Association .

Heinrich Dohrn died in Florence in 1913 on a trip to his nephew Reinhard Dohrn , who was working in Naples.

Like his brother Anton Dohrn (1840–1909) he was known as a malacologist .

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 18, 1913, Reimer, Berlin.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 4th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1909.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 214-215.
  • Erwin Ackerknecht : Heinrich Dohrn . In: newsletter of the Stettiner Verkehrsverein . No. 7, 1938. Reprinted in: Die Pommersche Zeitung . No. 16/2013, p. 16.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Schell (eds.): Braunschweigisches biographical lexicon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hanover 1996.
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
  • Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Volume 1, Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
  • Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, Volume 3).
  • W. Kobelt: Obituary in the newsletter of the German Malacoological Society, 45, 1913, 199

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 215.
  2. ↑ see website of the BKGE: Archivführer Stettin / 0305 City Museum Stettin (Muzeum Miasta Szczecina). (accessed on November 6, 2011)
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 110f (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 240-242.

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personal data
SURNAME Dohrn, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohrn, Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, zoologist and politician (NLP, DFP, FVg), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1913
Place of death Florence