Johann Georg Claussen
Johann Georg Claussen (born May 11, 1808 in Brake , † August 29, 1885 in Bremerhaven ) was a German entrepreneur and member of the Bremen citizenship .
Life
Johann Georg Claussen was the son of a businessman from Brake and came to Bremerhaven in 1833, which had only been founded a few years earlier and which developed into an important overseas port in the 1830s. Here he founded a shipping company and worked as an emigration broker. From 1842 Claussen was on the church and local council of Bremerhaven, in 1848 he was elected to the Bremen citizenship and from 1854 to 1860 he was chairman of the municipal council.
From 1849 to 1850 he had Heinrich Müller build the emigration center in Bremerhaven, a large hostel to accommodate and feed emigrants who were waiting for their ships to leave. For a long time, the emigration center was the largest building in town and was considered an exemplary social institution. After the Bremen – Bremerhaven railway was built in 1855, fewer and fewer travelers were quartered in Bremerhaven, which caused the emigration center to run into financial difficulties. In 1862 the company was converted into a stock corporation with Claussen as managing director, but in 1865 the business had to be closed and the house sold.
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
- ^ Christian Petermann: The buildings of the University of Bremerhaven . Wirtschaftsverlag NW. Verlag für neue Wissenschaften, Bremerhaven 2006, p. 14 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claussen, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and politician, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brake |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1885 |
| Place of death | Bremerhaven |