Johannes Daniel Volkmann

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Johannes (Hans) Daniel Volkmann (* July 2, 1878 ; † July 20, 1944 ) was a Bremen wool merchant and temporarily president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .

biography

family

Volkmann was born in 1878 as the third child of the Bremen businessman and chairman of the supervisory board of the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill (North Wool), Johann Heinrich Volkmann (1842–1916), and Alwine Volkmann, nee. Kommallein, born in Bremen. His nine siblings included u. a. the manufacturer and temporary chairman of the Bremen Club . Wilhelm Volkmann and Magdalene Vinnen, b. Volkmann, the namesake of the tallest tall ship Sedov (ex Magdalene Vinnen II ) still in service today , who was married to the Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen .

Volkmann married Magdalene (Nanna) Crüsemann (1882–1945) in 1905, daughter of the public prosecutor Conrad Wilhelm Crüsemann and the Georgine Magdalene Krüger. In 1906 the son Hans-Conrad Volkmann († 1992) was born, in 1908 the daughter Magdalene († 1993), who married the shipowner Werner Vinnen.

education and profession

Johannes Daniel, commonly known as Hans, started a commercial apprenticeship at the wool company Block & Katz after attending the old grammar school . In 1899 he went to London for a year for further training . In 1900 he joined Nordwolle in Delmenhorst , the company in which his father Johann Heinrich Volkmann was a partner and chairman of the supervisory board . In 1903/04 he was in charge of importing northern wool for this company in Australia . After his return from Australia in October 1904 he founded the wool import company Bäumer & Volkmann with Ludwig Bäumer, which was renamed J. Volkmann & Co. after Bäumer left in 1909 .

Honorary positions

  • 1906 Deacon in the congregation of our dear women , their senior during the First World War, later on the church council and then elected as building owner , appointed honorary building owner when he left in 1933
  • Member of the board since 1916, head of the Evangelical Diakonissenanstalt since 1919 , chairman of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk for the promotion of the evangelical diaspora, 1926 played a major role in the establishment of the Stenum solar health facility near Oldenburg, a hospital for surgical tuberculosis treatment
  • 1922 President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
  • 1924–1934 Chairman of the Bremen Wool Trade Association
  • Member of Haus Seefahrt (creator of the Schaffermahlzeit in 1928, together with G. Carl Lahusen and Max Hassenkamp)
  • Deputy chairman of the DGzRS

literature

  • Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck . Self-published by Martin, Berlin 1912.
  • Fritz Peters (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschildverlag, Bremen 1969.
  • Dietmar von Reeken : Our dear women. The history of the oldest parish in Bremen from the beginning to the present. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-86108-677-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weser-Zeitung , edition of February 11, 1928, Schünemann, Bremen 1928, SuUB microfilm collection ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suub.uni-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Volkmann, Johannes Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen wool merchant
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1878
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1944