Laeisz
Laeisz (pronounced Laiß ) is the name of a family who immigrated to Hamburg from Swabia between 1700 and 1750 . The Laeiszhalle (Hamburg Music Hall), which opened in 1908, is named after her.
The first Laeisz in Hamburg was the master carpenter Johann Laeisz , who worked on the construction of the St. Michaelis Church under the architects Ernst Georg Sonnin and Johann Leonhard Prey . His son Johann Hartwig was the first Laeisz to be born in Hamburg and became the progenitor of the Laeisz family in Hamburg . The family later owned the F. Laeisz shipping company .
Other family members are:
- Ferdinand Laeisz (1801–1887), entrepreneur and shipowner
- Carl Martin Laeisz (1803–1864), decorative painter in Hamburg
- Carl Heinrich Laeisz (1828–1901), businessman and shipowner
- Carl Ferdinand Laeisz (1853–1900), entrepreneur and shipowner
literature
- Gerhard Ahrens and Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The shipowners, Laeisz, Ballin . Hamburg 1989
- Johannes Gerhard: Sophie Christine and Carl Heinrich Laeisz. A biographical approach to the times and topics of their lives, published by the Hamburg Scientific Foundation, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-937816-36-4 ; also as a full text pdf edition from the Hamburg State and University Library
- Erich F. Laeisz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/1958 of March 17, 1958, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laeiszhalle. Elbphilharmonie, accessed on January 21, 2018 .