Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co.

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The Johann Lange's son Wwe. & Co. was a shipping company and a trading house from 1642 , which in Bremen resided.

history

Councilor Johann Lange founded a shipping company and trading house in 1642. The company is considered to be the oldest company in Bremen still known by name. After Lange's death, the company, managed by his widow, continued to exist as Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co. The company had its own ships and was active in import and export, with connections to Western Europe, West Africa and North and South America. In the first decades of the 19th century she owned up to twelve sailing ships, which she chartered out or sailed on her own account. It traded in coffee, tobacco and wool as goods. In the 19th century, respected Bremen merchants such as the consul Johann Gerhard Oelrichs (since around 1796), Albers, the elderly man and later Senator Carl Friedrich Ludwig Hartlaub (1792–1874) and George Alexander Albrecht were partners in the company. George Albrecht, after whom a street in Bremen- Blumenthal was named, ran the company for many years until 1898. <

The later Hamburg shipowner Theodor August Behn was assigned the task of supercargo ( cargo expert ) for the sailing ship Heloise and two other ships, the three-master George Washington and the brig Wilhelm Ludwig , from Oelrich and Hartlaub in 1838 . He called Singapore in 1839 and took over a transport of cotton to China; a very successful business for Behn and the shipping company during the First Opium War .

After the First World War , the company had to be rebuilt. There was a merger with the company JW Bastian & Sons from Langenstrasse . The sheep's wool division became independent as Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co. wool shop . After the Second World War , the company buildings were largely destroyed. The company now traded in textiles and called itself Teha Textilhandel GmbH Bremen and had its headquarters at Kohlhöker Strasse 31 from 1950 and at Rembertistrasse 9 since the 1960s, both in Bremen-Mitte. The company no longer exists.

Note: Not to be confused with the Johann Lange shipyard widow heirs of Johann Lange (shipbuilder) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Bremisches Adress-Buch from 1796, Schünemann-Verlag, Bremen 1796.
  2. ↑ Ernst Hieke Hrsg .: On the history of the companies Behn, Meyer & Co. founded in Singapore on November 1, 1840 and Arnold Otto Meyer founded in Hamburg on June 1, 1857 , Volume 19 of the publications of the Economic History Research Center, Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1957, p. 54
  3. ↑ according to Hieke, page 60; and Hraememoad.com.
  4. ^ Jürgen Hoffmann: Trading company with roots in the tiger state , Welt Online from December 27, 2009.