Lambert Leisewitz
Lambert Leisewitz (born August 15, 1846 in Bremen , † June 26, 1909 in Bremen) was a German businessman and member of the Bremen citizenship .
biography
Leisewitz completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked in the tobacco trade in Bremen. He married Helene Rutenderg. In 1870 he became a partner of the tobacco company Bornemann, Leisewitz & Co . He took over the management of the imperial brewery - later Beck & Co. - founded by his father-in-law master builder Lüder Rutenberg in 1873 . He expanded and modernized the company. After Rutenberg withdrew from the brewery, Leisewitz and Georg Wertgen joined the brewery as personally liable partners in 1890. In 1886 he became a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and in 1897 was President of the Chamber of Commerce .
With Christoph Hellwig Papendieck he was one of the sponsors of the Northwest German Trade and Industry Exhibition of 1890 in Bremen. From 1893 to 1899 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship. From 1891 to 1909 he was chairman of the General Bremen Gymnastics Club (ABTV), from which the ATSV emerged from 1860 . In 1900 he bought the Fickmühlen estate (later called Gut Valenbrook ) in Bad Bederkesa .
Sophie von Engelbrechten (1874–1969) was his daughter.
The Lambert-Leisewitz Bridge in Bremen's Bürgerpark was named after him.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ A. von Düring: Former and current aristocratic seats in the Wesermünde district . In: Stader Archive. New series 27 (1937), p. 214
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leisewitz, Lambert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1909 |
| Place of death | Bremen |