Johann Hackfeld

Johann Friedrich Hackfeld (born December 26, 1856 in Bookholzberg ( Ganderkesee ), † August 27, 1932 in Oberglottertal ( Baden )) was a German merchant and consul .

biography

Hackfeld was the son of a resident and master tailor and the nephew of Hinrich Hackfeld . He attended business school and completed a commercial apprenticeship with Chr. Papendieck & Co . He then worked for his uncle's company in Hawaii , which ran a store in Honolulu , a shipping company, and sugar cane plantations , and which exported sugar and tropical fruits. In 1871 his uncle Hinrich Hackfeld returned to Bremen and founded a company at Langenstrasse 131. Since 1881, Johann Hackfeld was a partner in the Bremen company Hackfeld & Co. , which now resided at Schlachte 31B.

The plantation owner Paul Isenberg (1837–1903) became a partner in the Hackfeld company in 1881. When Hinrich Hackfeld handed over management to Isenberg in 1886, H. Hackfeld & Co. was one of the largest in Hawaii. The company was taken over by Johann Hackfeld in 1903 after Isenberg's death. He was also consul in Honolulu for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Sweden and Belgium.

The company was incorporated into the US company Hackfeld & Co. Ltd. transformed. During the First World War , the company was confiscated by the USA in 1917. Hackfeld was in Bremen at this time and did not return to Hawaii afterwards. In 1918, the trustee of enemy property appointed by the US government sold the shares in the company below value to competing firms, thus dissolving the company.

In 1928 he financed the acquisition of a club house for the Christian Association of Young People (CVJM) in Bremen at Contrescarpe / Birkenstrasse 34. The new building from 1955 based on plans by Friedrich Schumacher was named Konsul-Hackfeld-Haus . Currently (2011) there is an authority and a rental and operating company here in addition to the YMCA.

As a private citizen, Johann Hackfeld lived in Bremen until 1932. He and the widows of Hinrich Hackfeld and Paul Isenberg - Marie Gesine Hackfeld and Wobetha Magaretha Isenberg donated a large part of their fortune in the Hanseatic city. In addition to the Konsul-Hackfeld-Haus , the donation for the cathedral renovation from 1899 should be mentioned. The Hackfeldsche Marienfonds was set up in Ganderkesee and is available to gifted children from the region for further training.

The Honolulu department store existed until the middle of the 20th century.

Hackfeld's grave is in the Riensberg cemetery (grave location Z 329).

Honors

• He received the Hawaiian honorary citizenship.
• The Consul Hackfeld House in Bremen was named after him.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon. Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
• Tim Giesler: The Hackfeld family in Bremen and Honolulu . [1] .