Peter Rickmers (shipowner)

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RC Rickmers family grave in the Wulsdorf cemetery

Peter Andreas Rickmers (born August 8, 1838 in Bremerhaven ; † December 15, 1902 in Bremerhaven) was a German shipyard owner, shipowner and rice merchant.

biography

Rickmers was the son of Rickmer Clasen Rickmers (1807–1886), founder of the well-known Rickmers shipping company . He was married to Maria Rickmers. Robert Rickmers (1864-1948) and Paul Rickmers (1873-1946) were their sons. With his brothers Andreas Rickmers (1835–1924) and Wilhelm Rickmers (1844–1891) he managed the founder's company.

He received his training in his father's company and at the Hanover Polytechnic . Here he joined the Slesvico-Holsatia country team, later the Slesvico-Holsatia Corps . After the death of their father in 1886, he and his brother Andreas managed the entire company, which has been called Rickmers Reismühlen Rhederei und Schiffbau AG since 1889 . The shares of the original trading company RC Rickmers remained in full possession of the family.

As a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , Rickmers , together with Diederich Hahn (1859-1918), successfully elected the ousted Chancellor Otto von Bismarck for the area of ​​the Elbe-Weser triangle (19th Hanover constituency) in the German Reichstag in 1891 .

In the group of companies, Rickmers mainly managed the shipping company and shipyard in Bremerhaven. The father refused to build steel ships. After his death (1886) he converted the shipyard to modern iron shipbuilding. The sailor RC Rickmers from 1906, which was equipped with an auxiliary engine, as well as the ships Maria Rickmers and the Rickmer Rickmers became known from his time . In 1914, after the rice business had been outsourced, the company was called Rickmers Rhederei und Schiffbau AG .

He was buried in the Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf .

Honors

  • The Rickmersstraße in Bremerhaven-Lehe was named after him and his family.
  • The barque Peter Rickmers (1867-1884) bore his name
  • The four-masted full steel ship Peter Rickmers (1889-1908) bore his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus : German biographical encyclopedia (dbe) , p. 385
  2. ^ Christian Ostersehlte: Rickmers, Paul . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 269 .
  3. ↑ 100 Years of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention , pp. 142–143. Bochum, 1963
  4. ↑ Manfred Hank: Chancellor without office. Prince Bismarck after his dismissal from 1890-1898 (dissertation). Munich 1977

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rickmers, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rickmers, Peter Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipyard owner, shipowner and rice merchant
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1902
Place of death Bremerhaven