Hermann Münchmeyer the Elder
Karl Georg Heinrich Franz Hermann Münchmeyer (born March 13, 1815 in Schöningen , Helmstedt district , Lower Saxony ; † January 28, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a merchant in Haiti , founded the commercial and private banking house " Münchmeyer & Co. " in Hamburg in 1855 Member of the Citizenship and Consul of Haiti.
family
Münchmeyer came from the old Lower Saxon family Münchmeyer and was the son of the doctor and physicist Ernst Münchmeyer (1778-1851) and Amalie Meyersiek (1786-1850).
He married on July 23, 1841 in Werl ( Soest district , Westphalia ) Emma Flashoff (born December 30, 1821 in Essen , † May 19, 1905 in Hamburg), the daughter of Karl Flashoff, director of the " von Papenschen Erbsälzerwerke " in Werl , and Friederike Strohn.
He became the progenitor of the well-known Hamburg branch of the Münchmeyer family. His son was Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder (1844–1895), co-owner of the company " Münchmeyer & Co. "
Life
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From 1816 Münchmeyer was officially a citizen of Hamburg. He later emigrated to Haiti, where he was a merchant in the export port of Aux Cayes, (now Les Cayes ). In 1843, however, Münchmeyer had to leave the country - triggered by the devastating earthquake of May 7, 1842, with an estimated more than 10,000 deaths and the subsequent political unrest and popular uprising that led to the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer .
After his return to Hamburg - "Hermann traveled with a lot of money" - Münchmeyer founded the company " Münchmeyer, Reimers & Nölting " in 1846 with his Haitian business partners Emile Nölting and Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Reimers , from which his own company " Münchmeyer & Co . ”, Which was active in banking, global import and export and wholesale.
From 1851 to 1863 Münchmeyer was consul of Haiti, from 1859 to 1861 a member of the Hamburg parliament , from 1859 to 1901 a member of the board of directors of the Norddeutsche Bank , 1862 to 1868 a judge at the higher court , from 1864 to 1866 a member of the Hamburg Commerzdeputation , 1865 to 1866 a member of the trade deputation and shipping and the emigrant deputation.
He was also a member of the supervisory board of the North German Insurance Company and the Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance Company as well as an honorary member of the board of directors of the Patriotic Women's Aid Association.
In the area of the circular family grave complex Münchmeyer / Schröder on the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof ( grid square AA 19 between Waldstrasse and Stiller Weg ) there is a grave slab with the inscription Hermann Münchmeyer / geb. March 13, 1815 / died Jan. 28, 1909 .
literature
- German Gender Book Volume 128 (Hamburg Gender Book Volume 10), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, ISSN 1438-7972 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Cracks in white facades - The decline of the Hanseatic civil nobility, John F. Jungclaussen , Siedler Verlag, Munich 2006, page 61
- ^ Jacques Emile Louis Alexandre Nölting
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Eberhard von Wiese: Here is paradise. Fates on Harvestehuder Weg , Frankfurt 1967, p. 31
- ↑ Details on the large grave complex with Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Hans Christians publishing house, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 134, cat. 910, with a historical illustration of the complex created by Carl G. Bensel in 1920 with a central, 8 m high Doric column
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Münchmeyer, Hermann the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Münchmeyer, Karl Georg Heinrich Franz Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, banker and politician, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schöningen near Braunschweig , Lower Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1909 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |