Oltmann Thyen
Oltmann Thyen (* 1821 in Apen / Oldenburg; † 1891 in Bremen?) Was a Bremen-Oldenburg merchant and shipowner.
Life
Thyen grew up in Ammerland and founded the shipping company O. Thyen in 1851 . In the same year he married Maria SR Wilkens (1829-1867), a daughter of the Bremen merchant Georg Wilkens .
On April 27, 1854, the full ship O. Thyen , built by the Behrens shipyard in Harrien, today part of Brake (Unterweser) , was launched . In 1856 the ship was sold to the recently founded Oldenburgische Rhederei-Gesellschaft in Brake; In 1867 the ship went again to Thyens Reederei in Bremen , who in the meantime had also become consul of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg and resided at Schlachte 38.
In 1883 Thyen bought about 100 acres of meadow land on the outskirts of Blumenthal / Unterweser ( Blumenthal district ) in the municipality of Beckedorf and had a historicist-style castle with an outside staircase built there for sixty thousand gold marks.
- children
Thyen had five children, in addition to the daughters Mimi, Dora and Elisabeth, the sons Oskar, who owned a cigar factory in "Holland", and Herrmann, who was an estate owner in the Uckermark and also managed a porcelain factory in Weimar.
literature
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world . Volume II: The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Hunte and their shipyards from 1790 to 1926. Elsfleth - Brake - Oldenburg , Bremen 2003. ISBN 3-89757-150-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Entries from the address book of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the port cities of Bremerhaven and Vegesack 1860 , Verein für Computergenealogie
- ↑ Thyens Castle in the park , Weser-Kurier
- ↑ Thyens Castle has a legendary reputation for being a Weser courier
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thyen, Oltmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen-Oldenburg merchant and shipowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Apen , Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1891 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Bremen |