Johann Witt (politician)

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Johann Witt , also called John Witt , (born January 1, 1833 in Hohenwestedt , † March 18, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman , politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Witt went to California in 1852 and worked in Zanzibar from 1856 . From 1859 Witt was managing director of the Hamburg trading house O'Swald in Sansibar and worked for it in East and West Africa. In 1860 Witt was accredited as a Hanseatic consul in Zanzibar, later he also worked for the North German Confederation in his own position. In 1864 Witt founded a company together with Gottlieb Leonhard Gaiser , which appeared in Africa under the name Gaiser & Witt and which primarily organized the purchase of raw materials for Gaiser. O'Swalds took over the branches in Lagos and Whydah in 1870 . In 1876 Witt teamed up with Oscar Theodor Büsch (1851-1891) and founded the Witt & Büsch company , which continued the West African trade in Lagos.

From 1874 Witt worked mainly from Hamburg and was a member of the supervisory bodies of Hapag , Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke and the Hamburg construction company. Witt was a member of the Board of Directors of Commerzbank from 1893 until his death.

Witt belonged to Hamburg's citizenship from 1874–1879 and 1883–1889. Most recently as a member of the "Group of the Right".

family

Witt married Amalie Charlotte Nicoline Hennings (1836–1913) in Hohenwestedt in 1861 . Her son married a granddaughter of Georg Friedrich Vorwerk .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from the Hamburg State Archive Ref 731-8_A 773 Witt, Johann
  2. ↑ Hamburg Gender Book, Volume 13, Appendix Vorwerk D, p. 702
  3. ↑ Ernst Hieke: “Gaiser, Gottlieb Leonhard”, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), p. 39 f. [Online version]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd136350100.html
  4. ↑ Frank M. Hinz: Planning and financing of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg : Mixed economy company foundings in the 19th century with special consideration of the Hamburg Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft, 2000, ISBN 3825836320 , p. 199, footnote 697
  5. ↑ Annual report of Commerz- und Disconto-Bank Hamburg-Berlin for the financial year 1915 (PDF) Commerzbank, accessed on June 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ see GND entry
  7. ↑ Hamburg Gender Book, Volume 13, Appendix Vorwerk D, p. 702
  8. ↑ Not evaluated: Contributions to the history of the Hennings families [1500–1905] and the Witt family 1650–1905 , Lübeck 1905 by JFB Hennings
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witt, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenwestedt
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1915
Place of death Hamburg