Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1785–1866)

Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (born November 17, 1785 in Bremen ; † May 12, 1866 in Bremen) was a merchant, shipowner and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Iken was the son of the expedition secretary Arnold Iken (1756-1802) and his wife Anna (1764-1828). His grandfather was the mayor of Bremen Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1726-1805) and he was the nephew of Senator Jacob Ludwig Iken (1758-1811) and Senator Volchart Meier (1761-1811).
He was married to the preacher's daughter Charlotte Rebecka Elise Klugkist (1792-1829); both had three children. In his second marriage he was childless married to the judge's daughter Clementine Antoinette von Post (1810-1885).
From 1841 he lived in Bremen-Mitte, Bremen market square no. 1, and in 1819 acquired an estate on which the Hasse country estate was later built . Two grandchildren of Senator Iken shared the property between them in 1894/95.

He completed his schooling in Bremen and made an apprenticeship in the wine trade and then was a partner in the firm Buxtorf, Wichelshausen & Co . In 1830 he became a senior man . In 1831 he founded the Bremen shipping company J.FW Iken , which later rose to become the second largest shipping company in Bremen in the 19th century, and from 1834 also acted as an emigrant shipping company and was managed by Engelbert Klugkist.

From 1831 to 1860 he was the successor of Siegmundt Tobias Caesar Bremen Senator. Under the chairmanship of Senator Iken, a consortium was formed in 1844/45 that drove the planning for an electrical telegraph line between Bremerhaven and Bremen and in 1846 founded the electrical telegraph line Bremen – Bremerhaven as a stock corporation.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).