Johann Heinrich Schröder (entrepreneur)

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Johann Heinrich Schröder (also John Henry , Baron von Schröder since 1868 ; * December 8, 1784 in Hamburg ; † June 28, 1883 there ) was a Hanseatic merchant.

Johann Heinrich Schröder
Henriette Schröder, b. by Schwartz

Life

The son of the Hamburg merchant and mayor Christian Matthias Schröder became a merchant like him. In 1804, at the age of 17, he went to live with his brother Johann Friedrich (1780–1852) in London . In 1818, after the partnership with his brother was dissolved, Johann Heinrich Schröder founded his own business in London, the commercial bank J. Henry Schröder & Co. The following year (1819) JH Schröder & Co. was founded in Hamburg, where Johann went Heinrich then returned permanently.

Previously, Schröder had married Henriette von Schwartz (* June 7, 1798 in Hamburg; † January 5, 1889 ibid) on January 26, 1819, the daughter of the Prussian consul general in Hamburg Wilhelm von Schwartz (1763-1832), secret councilor and businessman zu Hamburg, and Henriette Lütkens (1777–1835).

Schröder traded mainly in sugar , cotton , coffee and indigo in the import and export of these goods via London and Hamburg to Saint Petersburg .

The combination of trade and trade finance made him a considerable fortune. From 1848 to 1868 he gave trade finance credits to 261 customers. In 1870 he succeeded in issuing a Japanese government bond in the West for the first time . The private bank Schroders plc later emerged from the London bank .

In 1824 he acquired the house on Elbchaussee (No. 201) , which was built by Christian Frederik Hansen for John Thornton (1764–1835) around 1795 . The associated property was divided and part of it was donated to the city of Hamburg in 1953 by Schröder's heirs as Schröder's Elbpark .

Opposite are the former stables with a coachman and gardener's apartment in the wings, which have since been converted for residential purposes. They are popularly called "half moon".

In 1839 he opened a bank branch in Liverpool .

Schröder's mausoleum , Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1850, Schröder acquired the Groß-Schwansee estate ( Kalkhorst municipality ) in Klützer Winkel , which remained in the family's possession until 1945.

On December 26, 1868, he was raised to the hereditary Prussian baron status in Berlin , which caused criticism in Hamburg (see Hanseatic and Adel ). On the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary, he received the Hamburg honorary commemorative coin in gold, the highest award of the Hamburg Senate.

He died in 1883 and was buried in a mausoleum built for him in the Dammtor cemetery.

progeny

Henriette and Johann Heinrich Schröder had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood. The oldest child was their daughter Helene (1819–1909), who later married Bernhard Donner (1809–1865) from the Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank ; she lived in Donners Park for a long time and donated the Helenenstift . The daughter Harriet Schröder (1836–1899) married Adolph Godeffroy . The eldest surviving son, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (John Henry), took the lead in the family business and the London company. The other two surviving sons took over the companies in Hamburg and Liverpool (William Henry, 1841–1912). The daughter Francisca Henriette (1821–1902) married Anton Schröder (1813–1896), a son of Johann Heinrich's younger brother Anton Diedrich Schröder (1779–1855). Two other daughters married the brothers and relatives from Quakenbrück Bernhard Hinrich (1816–1849) and Johann Rudolph (1821–1887) Schröder, the founders of the trading and banking house Schröder Gebrüder & Co. Johann Rudolph and his wife Clara (1829–1900) became the parents of Bruno Schröder , who continued the London family business in the next generation. As with the Rothschild family , there were a number of parallel cousin and cross-cousin marriages among Johann Heinrich's children and descendants .

The banker and NSDAP regional economic advisor Kurt von Schröder was a great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Schröder.

Aftermath

Historic site of the Schröderstift
Blackboard at Schröderstift

Schröder pen

In 1850 he called the Joh. Heinr. Schröder's charitable foundation and endowed it with a fortune of 1 million marks. This resulted in the Hamburg Schröderstift on Sternschanze as a residential complex for needy women of higher classes, planned by the architect Albert Rosengarten and built in 1851/52. The street in front of the monastery was later given the name Schröderstiftstraße .

The monastery, today a senior citizens' housing complex for needy pensioners, moved to a new location in 1971 at the Kiwittsmoor underground station in Hamburg-Langenhorn , north of the Ochsenzoll hospital .

From 1971 to 1979, the Hamburger Studentenwerk rented the residential units in the historic monastery building to students under fixed-term usage contracts. In opposition to demolition plans, the Schröderstift tenant self-administration was formed in the following years , which still manages the building with its 100 residents to this day. The Byzantine style chapel of the monastery now serves as a church for the Coptic Orthodox community.

J. Henry Schroder Award

In 2006 and 2007, Schroder Investment Management GmbH, as a subsidiary of Schroders plc, in cooperation with Handelsblatt, announced a prize for young German-speaking financial journalists, which it named after Johann Heinrich Schröder.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kirchberger: Aspects of German-British expansion. 1999, p. 214.
  2. ↑ 200 years of Schroder Private Bank (PDF; 32 kB).
  3. ↑ demolished in 1914
  4. ↑ Renata Klee Gobert: Landhaus Thornton . In: Altona. Elbe suburbs (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1970, p. 195-197 .
  5. ↑ Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. Their country estates, people and fates. 8th edition. Broschek, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0496-7 , p. 116 ff.

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SURNAME Schröder, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, John Henry; Schröder, Johann Heinrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1883
Place of death Hamburg