Liselotte von Rantzau-Essberger

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Liselotte von Rantzau-Essberger (born October 9, 1918 in Kiel ; died January 21, 1993 in Mammern ) was a German shipowner .

Life

Liselotte Essberger was the daughter of John Theodor Essberger and his wife Charlotte, nee Simonsen. She married Viktor Cuno von Rantzau (1910–1982) on July 31, 1942 , with whom she had three sons.

Rantzau-Essberger inherited the company Deutsche Afrika-Linien / John T. Essberger Group of Companies from her father, who died in 1959 . She managed these shipping companies for over 30 years and was counted among the most successful entrepreneurs in Germany. For a long time she was a member of the executive committee of the Association of German Shipowners and, from 1988 to 1990, chairwoman of the African Association of German Business .

Like her father, Rantzau-Essberger encouraged musicians, for example through private concerts.

After her death in Mammern, Switzerland , her body was transferred to Hamburg and buried there in the Nienstedten cemetery.
Her sons Heinrich and Eberhard von Rantzau, who had been with the company since the 1980s, continued to run the shipping companies after their mother's death in 1993.

Appreciation

Liselotte Essberger at the baptism in 1966

Several ships belonging to her shipping company were named after Liselotte Essberger : the tanker Liselotte Essberger (1935–1945, then confiscated and continued operation under a new name, scrapped in 1980), the tanker Liselotte Essberger (built 1966) and the chemical tanker Liselotte Essberger (built 1992, since 2015 as Key North ).

Web links

Commons : Liselotte von Rantzau-Essberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Mayer-List: Ascent with handicaps , in Die Zeit , April 29, 1988
  2. ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women, Bonn 2000, p. 192 f. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
  3. ↑ Die Welt : The Secret of the White House , February 11, 2001
  4. ↑ Gravestone image and location at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau-Essberger, Liselotte von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Essberger, Liselotte (maiden name); Essberger, Lilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1993
Place of death Mammers