Paul Entz

Paul Entz (born October 16, 1859 in Elbing , † September 27, 1936 in Rendsburg ) was a German merchant and consul.

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Paul Entz was a son of the businessman Johann Entz (born December 31, 1825 in Albing; † November 25, 1903 in Danzig ) and his wife Helene, née Harder (born August 23, 1839 in Emaus near Danzig; † May 4, 1908 in Langfuhr ).

Entz completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked in Elberfeld , Graz and Hamburg . In 1884 he took over a business for medicinal drugs based in Rendsburg. On June 18, 1889, he married Bertha Christina Elise Hollesen (born April 16, 1868 in Rendsburg, † November 20, 1944 ibid), whose father Thomas Johann Gottfried Hollesen a consul and a shareholder in the company Rendsburger Zerssen & Co was. The couple had four daughters and their son Thomas Johann Gottfried Entz .

After the death of his father-in-law Hollesen, Entz ended his own business operations and joined Zerssen & Co. as the third partner after Consul Jeß and Christian Rheder . He successfully traveled abroad and also made international contacts through the canal business. In 1905 he joined the Baltic and White Sea Conference , which proved to be valuable for business relations.

Zerssen & Co. ran a profitable bunker station on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in Brunsbüttel . Due to an expansion of the waterway, the company had to stop this operation. Paul Entz then succeeded in setting up a bunker station in Rendsburg that had full and equal rights with those in Brunsbüttel and Kiel.

Like company founder Johann Christian von Zerssen , Entz came into conflict with the government on several occasions, which wanted to increase the fees for crossing the canal. The entrepreneur feared that because of excessive fees, captains would prefer to use the cheaper route via Skagen to continue to the Baltic Sea. Conflicts arose here, especially during the height of the global economic crisis in 1931.

In 1922, Entz expanded the business to include a company that offered ship equipment at locks in Kiel-Holtenau . At the end of his life, the company flourished.

In 1899, Entz was appointed consul of the Netherlands. In 1912 he was awarded the Orange Nassau Order for his commitment. After his death after almost 40 years of management, his son continued the business.

literature

• Ernst Joachim Fürsen: Entz, Paul . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 96-97