Johann Karl Vietor

Johann Karl (Carl) Vietor (born December 31, 1810 in Bremen ; † January 17, 1870 in Bremen) was a German businessman and entrepreneur.

biography

Karl Vietor, a brother of the theologian Cornelius Rudolph Vietor , learned the trade and then worked in America for a few years. He then took over the Friedr company in Bremen . M. Vietor sons of his father, Friedrich Martin Vietor (1776–1836), and began passenger shipping to America with his own ships , where he had lived for several years in his youth. He imported American goods and achieved a leading position in tobacco imports with the company . Relationships also developed with Africa. The Bremen trading company Friedrich M. Vietor Sons set up a branch in Togo in 1856. His nephew Karl Vietor joined the company in 1884 and continued to run the business in Togo and West Africa since 1888.

Vietor was actively involved in church life in Bremen. As the owner of St. Stephani from 1851 to 1868, he built the new church tower, was involved in the construction of the first German seaman's home and the deaconess house , and worked with his brother Friedrich Martin (1821–1906) as part of the Inner Mission .

Vietor was also involved in founding the Bremer Bank and the Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People . He pursued a conservative policy in the Bremen citizenship .

North German Mission

The North German Mission in West Africa owes him significant impulses . While in 1851 on the board of the trading company Friedr. M. Vietor Söhne had thought about a regular shipping and trade connection to West Africa, there was close cooperation with the North German Mission in the 1960s. The company undertook to transport the mission's people and goods to Africa at prices 40% below the applicable tariffs.

Vietor was part of the company's performance body. His brother, Pastor Cornelius Rudolf Vietor (1814–1897), was a founding member of the North German Mission in 1851, and from 1868–1888 its chairman and president.

The pastor and writer Nathanael Jünger shaped Vietor's life literarily in the novel Rodenkampp Sons. German colonial novel from Bremen's past and future (Hinstorff, Wismar 1924).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiebke Hoffmann: Emigration and Return
2. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Schwarzwälder: The Great Bremen Lexicon. Volume 2: L-Z. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 930.
3. ^ Federal Agency for Political Education - Chronology of German Colonial History
4. ↑ St. Stephani ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - History of the community  
5. ↑ North German Mission ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Mission through trade 
6. ^ Ustorf, Werner: Franz Michael Zahn's mission method and the development of church structures in West Africa. A mission history study . Verlag der ev.-luth. Mission Erlangen, 1989. ISBN 3-87214-307-7 , pp. 32-34.
7. ↑ Cf. Rebekka Habermas : Intermediaries, merchants, missionaries, researchers and deaconesses. Actors in knowledge transfer. In: About bugs, markets and people. Colonialism and Knowledge in the Modern Age , edited by Rebekka Habermas and Alexandra Przyrembel , Göttingen 2013, pp. 27–48.

literature

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