Heinrich Sievers (businessman)

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Heinrich Sievers (born February 22, 1856 in Lübeck , † January 16, 1924 there ) was a German wholesale merchant and member of the Lübeck citizenship .

Life

origin

until 1882
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Heinrich came from an old Lübeck family and was the son of Carl Heinrich Sievers (born November 3, 1820 in Lübeck; † May 23, 1889 there).

His father was the fifth generation owner of the H. H. Kahl & Sohn wholesaler for iron and haberdashery . Since 1865 a member of the citizenship, Carl Heinrich was elected member of the Lübeck Senate in 1871 in place of the resigned Senator August Ferdinand Siemßen .

career

After visiting the Katharineum , Sievers went to Leipzig to do his apprenticeship in the same business there, as his father did . He then did his military duty as a one-year volunteer with the Lübeck Battalion of the 2nd Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 76 and then perfected his training as a young businessman in London , Birmingham and Liverpool .

Returning to his father's business, Sievers toured Denmark and Northern Schleswig for this . In the mid-1870s, his father's business expanded more and more and Sievers joined as a partner and authorized signatory . When the business building had to give way to the new main post office building of the Reichspost on the market in 1882 , the company moved to the opposite side of the street from the Schüsselbuden . The company's motto , Ora et labora , was emblazoned on the new building above the house. After the death of his father, he became the sole owner of the company. In 1925 that would have been half a century ago.

Following the tradition of his fathers, Sievers often devoted himself to public life. At the meeting of the Society for the promotion of community service from 15 March 1884, he was for the election of a new chief of the Second infants school instead of out of the office suggested outgoing businessman Carl August Johannis Hall among others for the election in the sequence assembly. He was elected on the 22nd and at the meeting on the 29th he accepted the election. He was elected head of the Fourth Infantry School at the advisory meeting on March 29, 1898.

After Sievers resigned from the citizenry last year, the company elected him in place of the resigning Wilhelm Langenheim , mayor of Flensburg a. D. , on January 4, 1918 as auditor of the savings and loan fund .

Citizenship meeting (1909)

The Senate voted on 12 December 1896 Sievers in place of the retiring Charles Hornung Petit . as a civil deputy in the tax authorities at the tax assessment commission for the suburb of St. Gertrud and confirmed on December 15, 1902 and 1909 as such.

Sievers also held the same position in the foundation authority . In April 1903 the Senate elected him in place of the resigning businessman Alfred Ferdinand Koch as the head of the Brigittenstiftung.

Like his father from 1850 to 1875, he was also head of the Moyelken Foundation from July 8, 1889 . As such, he put the Moyelken or Engelsteden poor house on Langen Lohberg No. 26 for sale in 1906 . The new poor house was moved into at the large building yard No. 4 .

Sievers was also head of the Holy Spirit Hospital .

The citizens' committee elected Sievers for the years 1901 to 1903 as a deputy to the extraordinary members of the substitute commission for the Lübeck national territory . At the billing authority for the suburb of St. Gertrud, the Senate elected him in place of the outgoing businessman Johs. C. Gotth. Bernhöft on May 20, 1905, to the civil deputy there.

The Lübeckischen citizenship belonged Sievers from 1911 until 1917th

From 1884 Sievers was a member of the merchants 'union and from 1898 to 1904 a member of the Chamber of Commerce that formed the board of the merchants' union .

The residents of Roeckstrasse 17 in the St. Gertrud parish enjoyed a significant influence . Sievers has been a member of the church council since it was founded , was an ardent supporter of church building and represented the congregation in the synod for many years . On November 11, 1896, he was appointed by the Lübeckisches Hauptverein of the Gustav-Adolf-Stiftung alongside the principal teacher August Sartori as their auditor of the cash account.

The suburbs also owe him a lot in other ways, as he worked hard to improve the traffic conditions in the park and garden suburbs . For many years he was the chairman of the St. Gertrud Association.

In addition to the special preference for his suburbs, he devoted his care to Lübeck to a wider extent. The tourist association , of which he was a member of the board for many years and later as an honorary member, was given his comprehensive care .

During the war years he promoted the cause of the Red Cross and the National Warrior Association . The latter named him next to General Curt von Morgen after the war in "recognition of his many services in the patriotic spirit" as his honorary chairman .

Sievers enjoyed a great reputation among his business colleagues. He was a member of the board of directors of the association of German hardware dealers with its seat in Mainz , which expanded across Germany . Every year he attended the annual general meeting of the association .

On the evening of January 16, 1924, the age-old owner of the wholesaler died of a stroke at the age of 68 .

family

Since 1887 he was married to Anna, born Dahlberg.

During the First World War , his son took over as a lieutenant in the reserve . On November 15, 1916, fighting in the ranks of the Reserve Hussar Regiment of the Hussar Regiment "Graf Goetzen" (2nd Silesian) No. 6 , he was awarded the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross by the Lübeck Senate . When he left the war, the senior took his son, Heinrich Sievers Junior , as a partner in his company. At the death of the senior, it was passed on from father to son in the seventh generation. This was a rare case even among the old Lübeck families.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senator Carl Heinrich Sievers †. , Lübecker Blätter, Volume 31, May 26, 1889, p. 233.
  2. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 34th volume, No. 22, edition of March 16, 1894, pp. 128–129.
  3. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 38, No. 14, edition of April 3, 1898, p. 157.
  4. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 60, No. 14, edition of April 7, 1918, p. 157.
  5. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 36th volume, No. 63, edition of December 20, 1896, p. 563.
  6. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 43, No. 1, edition of January 4, 1903, p. 13.
  7. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 49th volume, No. 2, edition of January 10, 1909, p. 13.
  8. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 43, No. 17, edition of April 26, 1903, p. 231.
  9. ^ The Moyelken Foundation. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 46th volume, No. 21, edition of May 27, 1906, pp. 300–302.
  10. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 2, edition of January 13, 1901, p. 22.
  11. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 45, No. 22, edition of May 28, 1905, p. 317.
  12. ^ Report of the Lübeck main association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation for the year 1895/96. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 10, edition of March 7, 1897, pp. 112–113.
  13. ^ Directory of the owners of the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross in the inventory of the New Lübeck Senate Files.
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1924
Place of death Lübeck