Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos

Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos

Faded company sign for the Wilhelm Minlos company at Speicher A on the Northern Wall Peninsula

Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos (born April 23, 1826 in Lübeck , † July 25, 1895 in Bonn ) was a merchant and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

origin

Minlos was the son of the Lübeck merchant Wilhelm Minlos. His father died in St. Petersburg in 1852 and his mother in 1854.

career

After he first the Großheim'sche junior high school and then the Katharineum had visited, he began Easter in 1841 as an apprentice in the action house Haltermann & Brattström To his further commercial training , the En Gros store with groceries , he joined Easter 1846 as a clerk in the house Ebeling & Co. in Rotterdam . Then he worked in the ship brokerage business of Bergh fils in Antwerp , was in Riga in the house of Wm. Strauss & Co. worked and established in Saint Petersburg as Agent of Foreign houses.

After his mother's death, Minlos returned to Lübeck and took over his father's trading company in the Wilhelm Minlos company on January 1, 1855 . In addition to this, he often turned his attention to industrial companies and thereby gave decisive impulses for Lübeck factory and other companies. He was the owner of the leased glassworks in the suburb of St. Gertrud , founder and main interested party of the steam saw mill in Lachswehrallee , co-founder of the Lübeck fire insurance company , correspondent owner of the steamships Henriette , Nautilus , Alfred , Freihandel , among others.

Of course, this should not go without recognition. He became a civil deputy at the Department of Indirect Taxes and the Finance Department , from 1867 he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship and from 1868 to 1870 also a member of the citizens' committee . As a member of the Lübeck merchant class , he was (1860–66 and 868-71) a member of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and as such deputy to the President of the same, as well as several other public institutes and associations.

With his talent, which is unusual in commercial circles, to present his views convincingly in word and in writing, Minlos had also made several contributions to the local press. He also held the offices of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Consul and the Royal Spanish Vice Consul.

On June 12, 1871, Minlos was promoted to senator . As such, he was President of the Department for Indirect Taxes , a member of the Commission for Trade and Shipping , the Debt Commissioner for the Katharineum, in the Building Commission he was at the head of the pilotage system , in the Central Arms Deputation and the Accounts Audit Deputation. In the spring of 1877 he decided, for health reasons, to make use of the constitutional right to leave the Senate.

Minlos was a member of the editorial staff of the Lübeckische Blätter for more than a decade until he was elected to the Senate . Even after that, he remained with them as the author of various articles.

Even after leaving the Senate, Minlos retained his high standing in the city. This led to the fact that in 1880 he was sought as a candidate for the representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the Reichstag after the next election, Reichstag election in 1881 . It was only when he declared that he would not be able to accept the choice that the intention was dropped.

Also for health reasons, Minlos moved from Lübeck to Bonn, where he died in 1894. After his death, he was buried in the general church field in his native soil. The grave no longer exists.

Aftermath

Minlos also developed interests in the course of the development of the suburbs of Lübeck after the lifting of the gate lock in 1864. At the end of Roeckstrasse he owned a large garden with a summer house on Wakenitz , today Marlistrasse 2-10 (straight). The classicistic summer house in the Minlos garden has not survived . The parceling of the property began as early as the 19th century, when the architect Karl von Großheim built a villa in Marlistraße 10 for the Lübeck wine merchant Carl Tesdorpf , which is now used by the DRK-Schwesternschaft Lübeck eV with the neighboring development as a specialist hospital for geriatrics becomes.

At the eastern Travelodge banks Ludwig Minlos also acquired in the district of St. Gertrud a large park land downstream from the ballast Kuhle, today Glashüttenweg 15. The park was in the lower part by the 1872 Baltic Sea Flood destroyed and then left to itself, the upper part, later industrial park.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814-1914. Lübeck 1915, No. 68
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 1007.
• Jan Zimmermann : St. Gertrud 1860-1945. A photographic foray . Bremen 2007 ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2
• Jan Zimmermann: Joseph Christian Lillie's summer house on Glashüttenweg , in: Der Wagen 2008.
• Senator Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 15th year, No. 44, June 14, 1871 edition
• Senator Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 36th vol., No. 60, edition dated July 29, 1894

Single receipts

1. ↑ Cemetery position: L / 31/2
2. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 75 ff.
3. ↑ DRK sisterhood Lübeck
4. ↑ Uwe Müller: St. Gertrud , Lübeck 1986, p. 34.