Martin Quistorp

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Martin Quistorp (born December 3, 1861 in Stettin ; † June 6, 1929 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

Martin Quistorp was the son of the major Szczecin entrepreneur Johannes Quistorp (1822–1899). After his brother drowned, Martin gradually took over the business of his father at the age of 22 and took over the entire management in 1890. Around 1900 he expanded the cement factory in Wolgast into a larger company.

He also expanded the Portland cement factory in Lebbin . This was built by his father in 1855; it was the second in Germany at the time and at times the largest in Europe. In 1890 the plant had 600 employees. He had 150 company apartments and many social facilities built for them. When the chalk quarries at Lebbin no longer supplied enough raw material, Rügen chalk was transported to Lebbin. In 1896 Quistorp acquired the Quoltitz chalk quarries on Rügen and then had the port built at Sagard, which, together with the new town, was named Martinshafen after his first name .

Like his father, for whom he had the Quistorp Memorial Tower built in Stettin, Martin Quistorp made numerous foundations for his hometown Stettin. He donated the Eckerberg Forest to the city and thus made it possible to enlarge the Quistorp Park.

In Miedzyzdroje , where he lived in a summer house, Martin Quistorp sponsored the construction of the western end of the beach promenade and donated the building material for the church to the community. A memorial stone was placed there for him.

In 1923, Martin Quistorp was made an honorary senator of Greifswald University .

Martin Quistorp died unmarried in the Stettin Deaconess and Hospital Bethanien of pneumonia.

literature

  • Albert Laack: The industrial and social significance of Johannes and Martin Quistorp . In: The island of Wollin and the estuary area . Frankfurt 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ baptized on January 11, 1862 in St. Jakobi, Stettin
personal data
SURNAME Quistorp, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1929
Place of death Szczecin