Nicolas Stürken

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Nicolas Stürken (1812–1886)

Allrich Nicolaus "Nicolas" Lehnert Stürken (born January 21, 1812 in Hamburg ; † December 4, 1886 in Hamburg) was a German businessman and member of the Hamburg parliament in the 19th century.

Life

After completing his training, Nicolas Stürken represented his father's trading company in Mexico City from 1834 . Since 1840 he has been running his own company, Stürken & Pollitz . Since the mid-1850s, he has been managing the company from Hamburg. He was a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1859 to 1862 and a member of the prison college from 1859 to 1862.

Stürken was very wealthy. In the ranking of the richest Hamburgers published in 1912, Stürken's widow Mathilde Stürken is among the 200 richest people in Hamburg with a fortune of around 2.3 million marks.

After leaving business life, Stürken devoted himself to philosophical studies. He summarized the results in his Metaphysical Essays published in 1882 . Rudolf Eisler's Philosophen-Lexikon (Berlin 1912, p. 731) attributes a theistic point of view to Stürken and the thesis that the soul is immaterial.

family

Nicolas Stürken was the son of the Hamburg merchant Johann Hinrich Stürken and his wife Anna, née Schröder. Stürken was married to the daughter of a cloth manufacturer Mathilde Schnabel, who came from Hückeswagen . Her father Franz Schnabel was a co-founder and partner in the C. & F. Schnabel cloth factory . Nicolas and Mathilde Stürken had 4 children. His daughter Emma Stürken was married to the architect Hugo Stammann . He was a member of the Rathausbaumeisterbund for the Hamburg City Hall and son of the architect Franz Georg Stammann . His son Otto Stürken was later the Hamburg police chief . Nicolas Stürken was a cousin of the theologian Albert Lührs .

Publications

  • Metaphysical Essays . Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house, Leipzig 1882.

swell

  • Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship . 1859–1862, Hamburg 1909.
  • German gender book . Volume 200, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Martin (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck) . Berlin 1912, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Sturks, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stürken, Allrich Nicolaus Lehnert; Stürken, Nicolas (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1886
Place of death Hamburg