Johannes Quistorp

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Johannes Quistorp

Johannes Heinrich Quistorp (born November 14, 1822 in Greifswald ; † May 9, 1899 in Stettin ) was a major Szczecin entrepreneur and cement manufacturer. In the 19th and 20th centuries he was considered a benefactor of the city of Szczecin.

Life

Johannes Quistorp was born in 1822 as the first son of Heinrich Quistorp (1783-1853), a surveyor and royal Prussian commissioner, and his wife Johanne, née Hecht, in Greifswald. His brother was the merchant and banker Heinrich Quistorp (1836-1902). His parents moved to Wolgast , where he spent his youth. At the age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship in JG Sohn's goods store in Rostock , which he completed in 1842. He then worked as a clerk in Rostock and Stralsund.

In 1846 he moved to Stettin, where he did a year of military service. He then worked, again as an assistant, first at Goldammer & Schleich Nachf. And then at the Rud shipping company . Christian. Gribel active. In 1850 he founded his own business Johs Quistorp & Co. In 1852 he married and in the same year became royal Hanover consul , which he remained until 1866.

The former factory harbor and remains of the cement factory in Lebbin (February 2009)

In 1855 he bought the large chalk pit in the lime kiln and the lime kiln in Lebbin on the island of Wollin, and had a cement factory built in their place . It was one of the first in Germany to produce Portland cement and was at times the largest cement manufacturer in Europe. Johannes Quistorp was one of the founding members of the Association of German Cement Works eV, which still exists today . Since the Lebbin lime deposits were no longer sufficient for production, he bought Rügen chalk, which was first delivered to Lebbin by barge and later by ship.

In addition to the Lebbiner cement factory, he owned two more in Wolgast and Stettin. He owned brickworks in Glienken and the Berndshof district of Ueckermünd . He was the owner of the Scholwin chamotte factory near Pölitz , the Jasmunder Kreidebahn and his own shipping company . On the island of Rügen he owned the Dumsevitz , Wittenfelde and Schlitz estates . From 1870 he was a member of the board of directors of Baltic Lloyd in Stettin. In the 1870s he transferred many of his companies to the family-owned company "Pommerscher Industrie-Verein auf Actien (PIV), Stettin", which he founded in 1872.

social commitment

Ruin of Johannes Quistorps "Arbeiter-Bildungsinstitut" in Lebbin

Johannes Quistorp was one of the first Prussian manufacturers to take care of the social needs of their employees and workers. For example, he had 150 company apartments , a widow's house, a library, a club hall and a “workers' educational institute” built in Lebbin and founded a purchasing association , a two-class village school and an orphanage. He set up a sickness, widow's, death and benefit fund for his employees . In the years 1862 to 1864 he wrote the book Social aspirations of the factory owner Joh. Quistorp zu Stettin in Prussia for the welfare of his workers , which contained instructions to his employees on how this welfare should be promoted.

For 300,000 marks from his own resources, he had the Bethanien deaconess and hospital built in 1869/70 , which he transferred to the institution's board of trustees in 1875. After the demolition of Szczecin in the 1870s, he founded the Westend construction company, which built the Westend (Łękno) district on the area of ​​the former city fortifications and the Friedrichshof and Eckerberg goods he had acquired. In Friedrichshof he had the girls 'boarding school and teachers' seminar “Friedenshof” and in Eckerberg the “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Stift”, a mental hospital, built and operated at his own expense. In Heringsdorf he had the Elim house built as a rest home for deaconesses, now a home for the disabled.

In the north of Szczecin he had an orchard with a park of around 300 acres. The marshland of the Klingendes Beck was redesigned to become Westend-See. By opening its properties to the general public, this facility became a city park in Szczecin (Polish: Jan Kasprowicz Park).

Honors

View of the Johannes Quistorp Memorial Tower (1903)

In recognition of his economic and social commitment, he was awarded the title of "Royal Prussian Commerzienrath" on October 25, 1867.

After his death, the Quistorp Tower was built in his honor in the Eckerberger Wald . The tower designed by the Berlin architect Franz Schwechten and financed by Martin Quistorp was destroyed in 1945. The area around the tower was called Quistorp Park or Quistorpaue (1945–1994 Jasne Błonia).

family

On June 9, 1852, Johannes Quistorp married Wilhelmine (Minna) Caroline Marie Theune (1830–1886), the daughter of the Szczecin City Council and co-owner of the Völker & Theune company. With her he had three daughters and two sons. After Wilhelmine's death, he married Mathilde Elisabeth Leidhoff (* 1840) from Braunschweig two years later. His older son, Heinrich, drowned in a boat accident in the Großer Vietziger See , a bay in the Stettiner Haff , in 1880 . Around 1890 he handed over the management of his company to his younger son, Martin .

Fonts

  • Statute for the Workers' Education Institute of the Pomeranian Portland Cement Factory in Lebbin on Wollin . Szczecin 1857
  • Social efforts of the manufacturer Joh. Quistorp for the benefit of his workers . 1865

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Berlin . Paul Frohberg, Leipzig 1877, p. 405 (online version) .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Bartels: Everything depends on God's blessing: Lebbin - a topography of blessing. (with many photos)

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personal data
SURNAME Quistorp, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quistorp, Johannes Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Large entrepreneur and cement manufacturer from Szczecin, benefactor of Szczecin
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1899
Place of death Szczecin