John Henry Gossler

John Henry Gossler (born April 25, 1849 in Hamburg ; † June 14, 1914 there ) was a German businessman .

Life

Gossler was the son of the Hamburg merchant Johann Heinrich Gossler (1805–1879) and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Bray (1810–1886). He worked for the company Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. , which his father ran. There he received power of attorney on January 1, 1874 and on October 1 of the same year became a partner in the American branches in Boston and New York . After speculations in sugar, which Gossler carried out against his father's advice and which resulted in considerable losses, he had to leave the company in 1877. Afterwards he ran business with Julius Warnholtz under the Warnholtz & Gossler company with East and South Africa .

In addition to a town house in what was then Klopstockstrasse in Hamburg, Gossler owned a country house on the Krähenberg in Blankenese . He acquired the country house, known as the Goßlerhaus , in 1897. Goßlers Park and Goßlerstrasse in Hamburg are also reminiscent of Gossler .

Gossler was married to Susanna Gossler (* 1857) since October 24, 1878. They had six children. Johann Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler (1839–1913) was his older brother. His sister Susanna Katharina (1835–1901) was married to the shipbuilder and ship owner Martin Garlieb Amsinck (1831–1905).

literature

• Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Gossler, John Henry . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 155-156 .
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 37 .