Johann Hinrich Garrels

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Johann Hinrich Garrels (born August 31, 1855 in Leer (East Friesland) , † November 4, 1920 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg East Asia merchant and a Hamburg senator from 1917 until his death .

Life

From 1873 Garrels did an apprenticeship in his father's timber shop in Leer, which still exists today. He then became an employee of the trading company Siemssen & Co in Hamburg . From 1877 he worked for this company in Hong Kong and Shanghai . In China he switched to Meyer & Co in 1881 , where he became an authorized signatory, and from 1884 a partner. From 1897 Garrels was based in Hamburg again. The company Meyer & Co was renamed "Garrels & Börner" in 1908 after its main partners. In Hong Kong it traded under Garrels, Börner & Co. and was liquidated there in 1914. Garrels & Börner was closed in Hamburg in 1931.

politics

Garrels was elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1904 and initially belonged to the right-wing parliamentary group (FdR). In 1906 he and other members of the parliamentary group were prohibited from acting against the new electoral law. He then left the FdR together with Wilhelm Johannes Wentzel , Carl Wilhelm Petersen and Carl Braband . Together with other opponents of the new suffrage, they founded the United Liberals Group . From 1914 to 1917 Garrels was a member of the Finance Department. On January 12, 1917 Garrels was elected as the first party senator in the Hamburg Senate , he resigned from the citizenry and from the faction of the United Liberals. When the Senate was re-established in March 1919, Garrels was re-elected with 105 votes; he worked in the tax deputation and in the housing maintenance authority . He was a member of the Senate until his death (→ Hamburg Senate 1919–1933 ). Peter Stubmann succeeded him in the Senate.

References

  1. ↑ see website of JH Garrels Lud. Sohn GmbH
  2. ↑ see Carl T. Smith: The German Speaking Community in Hong Kong 1846-1918. P. 40 (pdf)
  3. ^ Adolf Buehl : From the old council chamber: Memories 1905 - 1918. Hamburg 1973, p. 59
  4. ↑ Frank-Michael Wiegand : The notables. Studies on the history and the elected citizenship in Hamburg 1859-1919. Hamburg 1985, pp. 209/210.
  5. ↑ Leo Lippmann : My life ... p. 129
  6. ↑ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, p. 60, footnote 57
  7. ^ Carl August Schröder : From Hamburg's heyday. Hamburg 1921, p. 360
  8. ^ Official Journal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg No. 80, 1919, p. 541

literature

  • German gender book. Volume 103, 1937, p. 84
personal data
SURNAME Garrels, Johann Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrels, Johann Heinrich; Garrels, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German East Asia merchant, politician, Member of the Bundestag and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Empty
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1920
Place of death Hamburg