Kurt Hartwig Siemers

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Kurt Hartwig Siemers (born December 30, 1907 in Hamburg ; † February 3, 1988 there ) was a banker, ship broker and philanthropist who volunteered in various ways in Hamburg's public life.

Life and work

A few months before Kurt Hartwig Siemers was born, his grandfather Edmund Siemers decided to donate a lecture building on the Moorweide, the main building of the University of Hamburg . Kurt Hartwig Siemers was deeply influenced by his grandfather's extraordinary commitment to science.

Siemers passed the Abitur at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg at Easter 1926 . After studying economics and history in Zurich and Berlin , Kurt Hartwig Siemers worked as a ship broker and banker in Hamburg, Berlin and London . The Second World War took him to northern Scandinavia as a mountain hunter in 1941 and then into captivity.

Voluntary and artistic commitment

From 1946 Kurt Hartwig Siemers was increasingly active on a voluntary basis as deputy chairman of the University Society, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Joachim Jungius Society and as chairman of the Geographical Society . Even a painter, who went public with exhibitions well into his old age, he also worked as treasurer of the Hamburger Kunstverein and as a member of the monument council of the cultural authority. Most important to him was the office of chairman of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation , which he held from 1951 until his death in 1988. In 1961 he became an honorary senator of the University of Hamburg . In honor of Kurt Hartwig Siemers, the Hamburg Scientific Foundation established the Kurt Hartwig Siemers Scholarship in 1970, later renamed the Kurt Hartwig Siemers Science Prize .

literature

  • Peter Fischer-Appelt; Kurt Hartwig Siemers: A life dedicated to the university: Kurt Hartwig Siemers on his 70th birthday on December 30, 1977 , Hamburg 1982 (Hamburger Universitätsreden; 39)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg, 1881–1981, Höwer Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-922995-00-4 , p. 286. (Abitur class "Easter 1926 / Class OIa (Schulz)")
  2. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 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.uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Siemers, Kurt Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1988
Place of death Hamburg