Johannes C. Achelis

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Johannes C. Achelis

Johannes Christoph Achelis (born July 24, 1836 in Bremen ; † November 18, 1913 in Bremen) was a German businessman and entrepreneur . He was a member of the Bremen citizenship and from 1891 to 1907 Bremen Senator .

biography

Education, businessman and entrepreneur

Achelis came from a family of tanners, merchants and scholars who came from Rostock and immigrated to Bremen in the 17th century. His father was the merchant and shipowner, consul Johann Achelis (1799–1869), who was active in the tobacco import / export and trade in Bremen , from 1832 onwards his own schooner and from 1840 his own packing house on the Diepenau im Stephaniviertel operation. He attended what was then the Bremen School of Academics , which later became the Old High School . He then completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in April 1852 in the B. Grovermann & Co. shop , whose owner, Carl Bartholomäus Ulrichs, was his father's cousin. After completing his apprenticeship, he traveled to New York in March 1856 to acquire knowledge of the tobacco trade in the United States . In June 1858 Achelis returned to Bremen and a few weeks later went to Saint Petersburg , where he worked for his father's business, the tobacco trading house Johann Achelis .

From June 1859 Achelis worked in his father's company in Bremen and became a partner at the beginning of 1861. In 1866 his younger brother Fritz Achelis also joined the trading company, which from then on traded as Johann Achelis & Sons . It was one of the largest tobacco trading businesses in Bremen. After his father's death in March 1869, he and his brother Fritz continued to run the company.

Other professional and voluntary work

Achelis was active in charitable and professional associations, took on honorary positions and later became politically active. Among other things, he became an honorary deacon at the Church of Our Lady in Bremen in 1860 . After the death of his father in 1869 he was appointed Imperial Russian Vice Consul in his place and held this office until 1891. In 1875 he became a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce , in 1881 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce .

In 1881 he was one of the founders of the German steamship company "Hansa" (DDG "Hansa"), consisting mainly of Bremen merchants . He was also a member and in some cases also chairman of various supervisory boards, committees and organizations (including Ellener Hof and Hartmannshof , Bremer Bank, DDG Hansa). He headed the Bremen department of the German Colonial Society .

Political activity, senator

In 1872 he was elected a member of the Bremen citizenship for the 2nd class of merchants . Here he was particularly active in the buoy and beacon office and in the deputation for the correction of the Lower Weser and the free port . In 1891 he was appointed senator in Bremen and held this office until 1907, when he had to give it up for health reasons. He was influential in all economic policy questions and a member of the deputations for trade, shipping, ports and railways.

Family, afterlife

Achelis married Laura Alwine Krummacher (* 1839), the eldest daughter of a doctor, in October 1861. The couple had five children; the first-born Johannes Eduard Christian Achelis (1862–?) later became a judge. Johannes C. Achelis died in 1913 after a long illness at the age of 77.
His grave is in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen.

Honors: The Achelisweg in Bremen-Walle bears the name of his family.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Joh. Achelis, Hans Achelis (ed.): The Achelis family in Bremen. 1579-1921. Bremen and Leipzig 1921, s. 41–44: Johannes Christoph Achelis ( online , 5.65 MB, at RambowGenealogie.de).
personal data
SURNAME Achelis, Johannes C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achelis, Johannes Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1913
Place of death Bremen