Henry B. Sloman (entrepreneur)

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Share of 200 RM in Salpeterwerke HB Sloman & Co. AG from January 1929

Henry Brarens Sloman (born August 28, 1848 in Kingston upon Hull , † October 24, 1931 in Hamburg ) was a British-German entrepreneur and private banker . Before and after the First World War he was considered a major importer of Chile saltpeter from his own mines.

After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Henry decided to emigrate to Chile in 1869. His sister Harriet had meanwhile married his childhood friend Hermann Fölsch , whose father lent him the necessary travel money. Through Fölsch he got a job in Iquique and later worked as managing director for the company Fölsch & Martin. After 22 years he set up his own saltpeter factory in Chile in 1892, "Gute Hope" in Tocopilla . In 1898 he returned to Hamburg as a rich man. In 1912 Sloman, with a fortune of around 60 million marks and an annual income of around 3 million marks, was described as by far the wealthiest person in Hamburg. In 1924 Sloman founded Finanzbank AG , which later became Sloman Bank KG . In 1976 she was awarded the & Bankhaus Hardy Co. GmbH for Hardy-Sloman Bank GmbH merged . In 1981 this was taken over by Deutsche Länderbank AG , which today in turn belongs to UBS Deutschland AG.

Slomans "Castle" on Gut Bellin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2010)

Sloman was the builder of the Chilehaus in Hamburg, completed in 1924, and the Bellin hunting lodge in Mecklenburg. He had acquired the Bellin estate as a retirement home; after his death in 1931 he was buried there in a mausoleum . In 1945 the mausoleum was desecrated during the occupation of the estate by Soviet troops: The coffins of Slomans, his wife Renata Sloman b. Hillinger and his daughter Adelaida were broken into, the remains distributed in the area and a gas station set up in the mausoleum.

family

Sloman was the son of the Hamburg merchant John Miles Sloman (1788–1866), a brother of the merchant and ship owner Robert Miles Sloman (1783–1867), who also worked in Hamburg , and Alwine von Bissing, a foster daughter of the writer Henriette von Bissing (1798–1879) ). After the economic collapse of his father, Sloman spent his childhood and youth with his Hamburg uncle, the businessman and shipowner Robert Miles Sloman jr. (1812-1900).

The Hamburg lawyer Henry B. Sloman (1812–1867) is a namesake and uncle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Gender Book, Volume 10. (= German Gender Book , Volume 128.) Limburg an der Lahn 1962, p. 261.
  2. ↑ Documentary "White Gold"
  3. ↑ Rudolf Martin (Ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck). Berlin 1912, page 1.

literature

  • Arne Cornelius Wasmuth: Hanseatic Dynasties. Verlag Die Hanse, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-434-52589-0 .
  • R. Sloman (Ed.), Hildegard von Marchthaler: The Slomans. History of a Hamburg shipowner and merchant family. 2nd edition, Christians, Hamburg 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Sloman, Henry B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sloman, Henry Brarens (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Hull
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1931
Place of death Hamburg