Otto Eduard Westphal

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Otto Eduard Westphal 1905

Otto Eduard Westphal (born July 12, 1853 in Hamburg ; † January 6, 1919 there ) was a businessman and Hamburg senator.

Life

Westphal belonged to a wealthy Hamburg merchant family who had been running the Hamburg tea trading company GWA Westphal Sohn & Co. since 1796 . His father was Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Westphal , his sister was the later social reformer Antonie Traun . The lawyer Eduard Wilhelm Westphal was his brother.

Inscription (right) on the family grave monument in Ohlsdorf cemetery

Westphal grew up in Hamburg, did a commercial apprenticeship, became an authorized signatory in the family company and became a partner there in 1880. He volunteered at Hamburger Sparcasse from 1827 , from 1879 to 1890 as an administrator, from 1884 to 1885 he was director of a district office and then auditor before he was appointed to the board. From 1884 he worked as a commercial judge and from 1890 to 1894 he was a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

In 1892 Westphal was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until his election to the Senate on February 16, 1900. He was elected to the Senate for the late Carl Möring . He held various offices, for example he worked as lord of the town hall, in the deputation for trade, shipping, trade and customs. He was also the lord of the parish of St. Catherine's Church . In the ranking list of the wealthy people from Hamburg, published in 1912, Westphal was roughly 12th with a fortune of 25 million marks. Westphal was also a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank .

Otto Eduard Westphal was buried in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of ​​the Otto E. Westphal family grave (grid square Q 25, north of the water tower ).

source

  • Hamburg Gender Book Volume 16, German Gender Book Volume 210, Jhrg. 2000, p. 522

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 480, 482 .
  2. ↑ see Rudolf Martin (ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the three Hansa cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), Berlin 1912; Hamburg part, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Otto Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1919
Place of death Hamburg