Peter Franz Biancone

Peter Franz Biancone (born June 14, 1797 in Hamburg ; † October 18, 1874 there ) was a German merchant and shipowner .

Life

Peter Franz Biancone was the son of the merchant Franz Anton Joseph W. Biancone, who came from Italy and came to Hamburg around 1790. In December 1828 he took the Hamburg citizen oath .

Together with his cousin and later Senator GH Büsch, Biancone entered his father's commercial business as a partner on January 1, 1830, which he had been running with Siegmund Lohmann under the Biancone & Lohmann company in Hamburg since 1793. The company was renamed Biancone & Co. and from January 1836 Biancone and Büsch were the sole proprietors. Initially, the company traded in coffee and colonial goods , later the company also operated as a shipping company with six sailing ships. The Bark New York transported emigrants to New York on three trips in 1844/45 . In 1856 Rudolph Klée entered the business, which from then on traded as Biancone, Büsch & Co. and after Büsch's death in 1860 as Biancone, Klée & Co. At the beginning of the 1860s, the shipping business was given up again and the import of bulk goods was carried out. Biancone left the company on December 31, 1872.

Together with his friend Theodor Dill , Biancone was involved in the rescue of the New Stock Exchange in the Hamburg fire in 1842 .

As a committed free trader, he was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Freedom of Commerce and chaired the shipping commission formed in 1848. Together with a group of members around Adolph Godeffroy , Biancone resigned from the association in 1849 because the efforts to promote free trade did not seem sufficient to them. In 1854, however, he was back on the board of the association.

Peter Franz Biancone, merchants' collective grave (II b), Ohlsdorf cemetery

Biancone was elected to the Commerzdeputation in Hamburg on February 22nd, 1851 at the suggestion of the honorable businessman . He was a member of the Brokerage Regulations from 1851 to 1858 and was a member of the Customs and Accession Deputation (1851-1853), the Commission for Weights and Measures (1852-1854), the Shipping and Port Deputation (1852-1856) and the Bank Deputation (1856 -1857). Biancone was President of the Commerzdeputation in 1857 . He was a member of the Commerzdeputation until 1858 and from September 27, 1859 he was an old adjunct. In 1862 and 1863 he was sent by the merchants to the administration of the seaman's treasury.

Biancone belonged to the Hamburg parliament from 1859 to 1863 .

From 1845 until his death, Biancone was head of the Roman Catholic community.

Peter Franz Biancone is commemorated on the collective grave slab merchants (II b) of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemetery .

literature

• Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 15 .
• Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 . Hamburg 1984, p. 38 .
• Associated various deputations, see in “Abt. Commerce and trade ”in the editions of the Hamburg State Calendar to the .... th year ... , ( digital copies ).

Web links

• Peter Franz Biancone. In: Hamburg personalities from 801-2013. Museum for Hamburg History and Society Harmony from 1789, accessed on January 8, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. (No longer available online.) In: hk24.de. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on January 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.