Heinrich Edmund Bohlen

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Heinrich Edmund Bohlen (born October 22, 1851 in Hamburg ; † April 22, 1918 there ) was a German businessman .

Life

From 1864, Bohlen completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Hamburg company Burmester & Stavenhagen, which he continued in England, France and the Netherlands. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 and then became an employee of his father in his company Bohlen & Dohrn. There he received power of attorney on December 28, 1875 and became a partner on January 1, 1878 . The company was closed on October 11, 1882. Together with Otto Christian Behn, Bohlen had founded a trading company under the name Bohlen & Behn at the beginning of 1881. After Behn's death on February 24, 1888, Bohlen continued to run the company, initially with his heirs and from July 1888 as the sole owner. He went on business trips to Russia and Scandinavia.

He acted as a commercial judge in Hamburg in 1886 and 1887. On December 31, 1899, Bohlen was elected to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , of which he was President from January 2, 1911 to January 2, 1915. In 1905 he succeeded in negotiating between representatives of the Hamburg Senate and the Chamber of Commerce with commissions of the German Reich a meaningful integration of free port traffic into the Reich statistics. As a result, he and Albert Ballin succeeded in defending against an intended increase in quay fees and port taxes in Hamburg in 1911. As a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, Bohlen sat from 1905 to 1915 in the advisory authority for customs and from 1910 to 1914 in the deputation for trade, shipping and trade. In 1913 he was delegated by the Chamber to the permanent committee of the German Trade Conference. He also worked in various sections of the chamber. Bohlen was a member of the permanent commission of the Colonial Council . When he left the Chamber of Commerce on December 31, 1916, he received the Chamber's Golden Medal.

Bohlen was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from March 1903 to 1918 . There he belonged to the faction of the right.

literature

  • Günther Jantzen, Hans Bielfeldt: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 . In: Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): State and economy . Hamburg 1984, OCLC 747141095 , p. 113 .

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SURNAME Bohlen, Heinrich Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1918
Place of death Hamburg