Paul Sachse

Friedrich Carl Paul Sachse (born October 24, 1859 in Leipzig , † January 4, 1927 in Hamburg ) was a businessman and Hamburg senator .

Life

Cushion stone (center in front) for Senator Paul Sachse , Ohlsdorf cemetery

After finishing school in Leipzig, Sachse did a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg. In 1880 he became an employee of the Carlowitz & Co. company , for which he worked in their branch in Canton . He obtained power of attorney there in 1885 . In the following years he became a partner in the company and then worked in Hong Kong , where he also held the post of Dutch consul . In 1901 he returned to Hamburg and took over the management of the Hamburg branch of Carlowitz & Co. Sachse left the company as an active partner in 1905 and became a limited partner . He was elected to the board of the Chamber of Commerce and worked as an honorary commercial judge before he was elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1908 . There he joined the faction of the right. Among other things, he worked in the finance department and in the deputation for trade and shipping. He belonged to the citizenry until his election to the Senate on January 9, 1914, in place of the retired Senator Gottfried Holthusen . On March 28, 1919, he resigned from the Senate. Sachse, who was on the commercial advisory board of the Hamburg Colonial Institute, was known to be a staunch opponent of the establishment of a Hamburg university . He also worked as a board member of the East Asian Association Hamburg and was chairman of the supervisory board of the public limited companies Janus Versicherungen AG , New-York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie and Waren Kreditanstalt Hamburg.

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg there is a pillow stone for Senator Paul Sachse at planquadrat P 24 (north of the water tower ) on the family grave .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburger Fremdblatt No. 4a of January 5, 1927, page 3