Johann Meyer (businessman)

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Johann Meyer

Johann Peter Kaspar Meyer (born January 28, 1800 in Hanover , † January 6, 1887 in Dresden ) was a German wholesale merchant , founder and honorary citizen of the city of Dresden. He is considered to be one of the founders of social housing.

Life

Johann Meyer's villa at Beuststrasse 1 in Dresden (destroyed in 1945)

He was the son of destitute parents from Hanover. As a young child he came with them to Saint Petersburg , where he attended the local St. Petri School from the architect Heinrich Nicolai . He then took up an apprenticeship as a businessman in Russia . As such, he founded his own company "Johann Meyer". Mainly he imported goods to Russia, which he resold at a profit and thus achieved wealth and reputation relatively quickly. His nickname The Russian Meyer comes from this time .

In Russia he was best known as the salt and cotton mogul and co-founder of the first Russian railways.

Meyer left Russia in 1850 and settled in Dresden in 1856. In the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony , he had his own villa built at Beuststrasse 1 and the corner of Parkstrasse and lived there until the end of his life. He died shortly before his 87th birthday and was buried in the Trinity cemetery. During this time he donated over half a million Reichsmarks to public and social institutions in the city. For example, in 1872 he donated 100,000 marks for the construction of workers' houses in Dresden's Hechtviertel .

The foundation established by Johann Meyer existed in the GDR until 1950 and was then dissolved.

Honors

Meyer was born on May 1, 1866 at the inauguration of the new building of the Cross School for honorary citizen of the city of Dresden appointed. In addition, a street has been named after him in Oppellvorstadt, today's Hechtviertel.

literature

  • On the 50th anniversary of Johann Meyer's death. In: Dresdner Nachrichten of January 7, 1937.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trinitatisfriedhof on www.dresdner-stadtteile.de
  2. ↑ Leipziger Vorstadt: Neudorf • Hechtviertel , Dresden & Saxony, regional studies & travel guide ( Memento from December 16, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Johann-Meyer-Straße on www.dresdner-stadtteile.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Johann Peter Kaspar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wholesale merchant, founder and honorary citizen of the city of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1887
Place of death Dresden