Philipp Heineken (businessman)
Philipp Cornelius Heineken (born March 1, 1860 in Bremen , † December 28, 1947 in Tutzing ) was a Bremen businessman and general director of North German Lloyd (NDL).
biography
The businessman
Heineken was the son of the lawyer Johannes Heineken (1822-1899). He attended the old grammar school in Bremen. After a three-year apprenticeship as a businessman, he worked for a cotton company in Liverpool for six years. Back in Bremen in 1886 he co-founded the cotton company Heineken & Vogelsang , a company with several branches. During this time, Heineken became a member of Bremen's citizenship . In 1903 he was a founding member of the Bremen Tourist Office .
At the North German Lloyd
From 1902 he was a member of the supervisory board of the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) . In 1905 he took the office of President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce for one year . In 1906 he became a member of the board of directors of the NDL and headed all specialist departments. After the death of General Manager Heinrich Wiegand , Heineken held this office from 1909 to 1920. He consolidated the shipping group, which was ailing at this time. During his time, the representative administration building on Papenstrasse in Bremen was inaugurated. The NDL used very representative ships on the lucrative North Atlantic passages. The shipping company employed around 22,000 people. The First World War put an end to the upward development of the company, which initially kept afloat with seaside resort services, towing services and light ships as well as with technical operations. In 1920, Heineken succeeded in the NDL concluding an agency contract with United States Lines and in resuming the New York - Bremerhaven liner service . In the management of the NDL, the lawyer Carl Stimming became general director from 1921, while Heineken now acted as chairman of the supervisory board with little influence. 1922 awarded him the Technical University of Gdansk , the honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). In 1933 he resigned all offices there due to a new, severe economic crisis at Lloyd. The Bremen State Councilor Karl Lindemann took over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board until 1945.
Philipp Heineken was a commercial member of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation since 1900.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Heinz Schwebel : "House Seafaring" Bremen. His merchants and captains. Krohn, Bremen 1947, p. 76.
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Heineken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Philipp Heineken in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heineken, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heineken, Philipp Cornelius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, director of North German Lloyd and politician, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1947 |
| Place of death | Tutzing |