Eduard Ichon (entrepreneur)
Louis Eduard Ichon (born June 20, 1811 in Bordeaux , † October 19, 1890 at Gut Sandfort near Osnabrück ) was a German entrepreneur.
biography
Ichon settled in Bremen in 1833 . He represented a company from Bordeaux in Bremen. In 1843 he became a citizen of the city and in the same year he set up the first regular steamship line between Bremen and Amsterdam . He also founded the Weser-Hunte steam shipping and the steam shipping line Bremen-England . From 1845 to 1857 he worked successfully as a ship broker and in the emigration business. He was also the Belgian consul in the Hanseatic city from 1850 to 1857 .
He was married to Adele Ichon, née Gruner (born November 29, 1823, † May 6, 1873). They had a son, Theodor Ichon (born November 9, 1844, † September 13, 1917), who in turn was the father of the theater director Dr. Eduard Ichon (1879–1943) and by Dr. Theodor Ichon (born October 24, 1880 - † July 5, 1967), partner in the real estate company Ariade , was.
Ichon was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen (grave location: V 497/498).
literature
- Fritz Peters: Ichon, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 111 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Thomas Schaefer: Who is where? Celebrities at Bremen cemeteries . Siepmann & Kunze, Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-933410-00-2 .
- 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 b c Gravestone of the Holler-Ichon family grave in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen, grave location V 497/498
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ichon, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ichon, Louis Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1890 |
| Place of death | Gut Sandfort near Osnabrück |