Hermann Münchmeyer the Younger

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Hermann Rudolf Münchmeyer (* July 30, 1875 in Hamburg ; † June 20, 1950 in Hamburg-Rissen ) was a businessman and co-owner of the trading company and private bank " Münchmeyer & Co. ".

family

Münchmeyer came from an old Lower Saxony family and was the son of the Hamburg merchant and banker Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder. Ä. (1844–1895) and Therese Albert (1852–1932).

He married on September 23, 1905 in Hamburg Elisabeth Waitz (born November 24, 1885 in Hamburg; † after 1962), the daughter of the Hamburg senior physician Heinrich Waitz (1850-1912) and Elise Krogmann (1863-1942).

His son was Alwin Münchmeyer the Younger (1908–1990), owner of the company " Münchmeyer & Co. ", President of the DIHT and owner of numerous supervisory board positions .

Life

Grave slab family grave
cemetery Ohlsdorf

Münchmeyer was captain of the reserve of Westphalian Lancers - Regiment . No. 5 in Dusseldorf .

From 1900 he was co-owner of his father's company " Münchmeyer & Co. " in Hamburg and a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , from 1923 to 1926 its president .

He was also a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the supervisory board of the Norddeutsche Bank , the management of the Berliner Disconto-Gesellschaft , the Hamburg-Amerika-Linie , the Hamburg-Bremer fire insurance company, the Aachen-Munich fire insurance company , the North German Insurance Company, the German Atlantic Sea Cable Company , the Hamburg-Bremer Reinsurance Company , the Rudolph-Karstadt-AG , the Lower Saxony Insurance Company and the Kaufmannhaus-AG zu Hamburg.

Hermann Rudolf Münchmeyer was buried in the area of ​​the circular family grave complex on the Ohlsdorf cemetery ( grid square AA 19 between Waldstrasse and Stiller Weg ).

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Details from Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: Der Hamburger Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 134, cat. 910, with a historical illustration of the large complex created in 1920 by Carl G. Bensel with a central, 8 m high Doric column
personal data
SURNAME Münchmeyer, Hermann the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchmeyer, Hermann Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1950
Place of death Hamburg cracks