Johann Christoph Bachmann

Johann Christoph Bachmann (* 1748 ; † 1814 ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur . He is the founder of the Bremen trading company JH Bachmann , which existed until 2006.

Life

Entrance portal of the former company headquarters of JH Bachmann in Bremen (photo from 2011).

Johann Christoph Bachmann founded a trading company for English manufactured goods in Bremen in 1775 and since then has mainly traded in imported silk goods . When trade with England came to a standstill as a result of the continental blockade imposed by Napoleon in 1806 , Bachmann converted the import and trading company into a forwarding company and also entered the wine trade ; The focus was on red wines from Bordeaux in southwestern France , followed by southern wines and spirits .

The company founder Johann Christoph Bachmann died in 1814; After his death, his son Johann Hinrich Bachmann (? –1832) took over the company in the second generation and in 1825 gave it the company name JH Bachmann (JHB). When his successor died in 1832, the family business passed to his cousin Johann Christoph Dubbers , who later married his widow and did not change the company name.

Overall, the company remained in the possession of the "Bachmann / Dubbers" family for more than 220 years and until the end it carried the company name JH Bachmann , which goes back to the company founder and his son ; even after the sale in 1996 and then under changing owners until the transfer of the company to the Danish logistics group DSV A / S in 2006/07 . The traditional company name can still be read today above the entrance portal of the office building of the former company on the Schlachte in Bremen, which was built in 1913 and rebuilt in 1948 (see picture).

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information on JH Bachmann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Employee and customer magazine Imperial News , No. 1/2000, pp. 4–9; PDF file, 3.94 MB, accessed June 3, 2011.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Corinna Laubach: "For us, Bremen is the center of the world" . In: Die Welt from August 17, 2000; accessed June 3
3. ^ Annemarie Struss von Poellnitz: The branch of General Motors. DSV Air & Sea organizes European parts logistics for the American car company from Bremen. In: Kurier am Sonntag of May 29, 2011, p. 20.