Otto Friedrich Alsen

Otto Friedrich Alsen (born May 23, 1805 in Altona ; † January 15, 1872 in Itzehoe ) was a German lawyer and entrepreneur .

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The Uetersener Alsen cement factory (1900)

Otto Friedrich Alsen's ancestors came from fishing , where they worked as hoofers . His father Hinrich Christian (1749–1832) worked as a real law firm in Altona. The mother Lucia Woldsen (1764-1837) was a daughter of Senator Friedrich Woldsen and was born in Husum .

Alsen, who ran two marshlands in Dithmarschen , married Henriette Wilhelmine Dorothea Schmidt (1810–1872) from Flensburg. The couple had five sons and four daughters, including on June 24, 1834 the second son Heinrich Christian Lucian († February 9, 1882). This son acquired around 30 hectares of chalk land in Lägerdorf in 1862 and a “concession for the operation of a cement and lime factory”. On April 14, 1883, he opened a cement factory on the south bank of the Stör, which soon ran into economic problems. On December 29, 1863 Otto Friedrich Alsen took over the management of the "Open Trading Company OF Alsen & Son". This resulted in the Alsen Portland cement factories .

After Otto Friedrich Alsen's death in 1872, Heinrich Christian Lucian Alsen headed the company. Later on, other family members took over the management of the cement works based in Hamburg and other branches in Uetersen . At the turn of the millennium they employed 2,000 people.

A street and a settlement (Alsenhäuser) in Uetersen were named for the social benefits of the family.

literature

• Rudolf Irmisch : Alsen, Otto Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 31-33