Johann Matthias Gildemeister
Johann Matthias Gildemeister (born August 4, 1833 in Bremen ; † January 10, 1918 in Bremen) was an overseas merchant and councilor and senator of the city of Bremen .
Life
Johann Matthias Gildemeister was a son of the overseas merchant Friedrich August Gildemeister (1797–1870) and grandson of Johann Gildemeister (1753–1837).
His cousin Johann Gildemeister (1823–1898) emigrated to South America in 1848 and founded a company that was involved in the saltpetre trade in Iquique . Johann Matthias started his apprenticeship there and took part in the business. In 1866 he returned to Bremen and founded the company J. Gildemeister & Co., in which his younger brother Heinrich (1840–1907) also participated. Out of a predicament of having to take over a large Peruvian sugar company because it could not pay for a machine system supplied by J. Gildemeister & Co., they expanded the business to include sugar production and trading. With this segment they became leaders in South America.
The descendants of the two brothers continued to run the company in Peru until it was expropriated in 1969.
literature
- Friedrich Prüser : Gildemeister, Johann Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 393 f. ( Digitized version ).
Footnotes
- ^ Sabina Cournoyer: Consul Juan Gildemeister. A Hanseatic merchant in Peru in the 19th century . Hauschild, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-445-8 , pp. 57-65.
- ^ Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle : The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 708.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gildemeister, Johann Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen councilor and overseas merchant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1918 |
| Place of death | Bremen |