Ludwig Julius Lippert

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Ludwig Julius Lippert (born March 2, 1835 in Hamburg ; † July 22, 1918 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer, businessman and politician.

Life

Lippert attended the Johanneum and graduated from high school there. He studied from 1853 in Heidelberg , Berlin and Goettingen jurisprudence, he received his doctorate in 1857. Lippert was on April 6, 1857 in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted he was enrolled as such until the 1868th

In 1858 Lippert became a merchant and took over his father's wool trading company, David Lippert & Co. , who had died in 1856. He successfully expanded the business and founded a branch in Port Elizabeth in 1858 . Later other companies and branches in Cape Town , Port Natal and Kimberley were added. Lippert later ran the business together with his brother Eduard . The business was very respected and, for the circumstances at the time, reached the large sum of a year's turnover of 40 million marks in exports and almost the same amount for imports in South Africa. On the initiative of Lippert, his cousin Alfred Beit was trained as a diamond expert and sent to Kimberley. Beit worked for Lippert as a diamond dealer from 1875 to 1879 before going into business for himself. Carl Cohn went to South Africa for Lippert in 1880.

At the end of 1882 the company David Lippert & Co. in Cape Town made great losses and went bankrupt in January 1883. The business in South Africa was taken over by Eduard Lippert, the trading activities between South Africa and Europe were taken over by Carl Cohn, who went into business for himself with the company Arndt & Cohn . David Lippert & Co. was liquidated at the end of 1884 following a moratorium. Ludwig Lippert built a new business in London and Paris. Lippert made fortunes again by trading in undervalued diamond mining stocks. So it was possible for him and his brother Eduard until 1890 to repay all liabilities, a total of almost 4 million marks.

From 1868 to 1871 Lippert belonged to the Hamburg citizenship .

In his later years Lippert was involved in a variety of charitable activities. In 1903 he had the Bethanien nurses' home of the nearby Bethanien Hospital built on a piece of land lent by the Senate for this purpose at Martinistrasse 46 in Eppendorf . The building, called the Ida Lippert Foundation in memory of his wife , cost 117,075 marks at the time. In 1905 Lippert donated two candelabra , Der Kuss by Reinhold Begas , created in 1887, and Die Verführung by Walter Schott , a counterpart to Der Kuss commissioned in 1895, for the Hamburg Council Silver Chamber . In 1906 Lippert donated a Jardinière with sea creatures, created in 1905 by Arthur Bock . As with all other foundations by Jewish persons, the city hall administration removed the donor's engravings at great expense in 1940 from the three Lippert Silver Collection foundations. In 1997 the original engravings were restored.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 355
  2. ↑ a b Obituary Lippert: Hamburger Nachrichten July 23, 1918 No. 372, subscription edition
  3. ↑ Hamburg and its buildings 1914, vol. 1, p. 354
  4. ↑ The Hamburg Silver Treasure: On the Trail of Five Centuries; (Catalog for the exhibition by BILD Hamburg in the Springer Passage, Hamburg, November 14 to December 21, 1997), ISBN 3777476609 , p. 163ff
personal data
SURNAME Lippert, Ludwig Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg businessman, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1918
Place of death Hamburg