Richard Ohlrogge

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Richard Ohlrogge (born July 9, 1866 in Brake , † April 2, 1949 in Bremen ) was a German navigator and entrepreneur. In the negotiations for the Versailles Treaty and other international agreements, he represented the interests of German steam ocean shipping.

biography

Ohlrogge was the authorized signatory of the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei Bremen-Cuxhaven AG and the first director of the Cuxhavener Hochseefischerei AG, which was founded on February 12, 1908 with significant support from the Hamburg shipowner Albert Ballin , whose trust Ohlrogge had earned, and the Hamburg banker Max Warburg .

After becoming an officer on the Lloyd express steamers on the New York Line at an early age , a few years later he was appointed inspector of the German steam fishing company "North Sea" in Nordenham , founded in 1896 on the initiative of the Bremen ship owner and politician Adolf Vinnen . Ohlrogge stayed here for ten years and became the company's authorized signatory. Today the "North Sea", which is now owned by the Hamburg family Kamps, is mainly known for the fish restaurant chain of the same name.

In autumn 1907 Ohlrogge was proposed as director of the newly founded Cuxhavener Hochseefischerei AG at the instigation of Albert Ballins, General Director of the Hamburg-America Line . Ohlrogge is said to have played the largest part in the rapid upward development of this company.

Ohlrogge has made great contributions to German deep-sea steam fishing by representing its interests in many places, including abroad. Examples are the negotiations on the delivery of German fishing vessels to Versailles and London in 1919 and 1920, as well as the participation in the drafting of the German-Russian trade agreement of October 12, 1925 .

He is said to have been one of the strongest and at the same time peculiar personalities in the German sea fishing industry.

Villa Ohlrogge, Horn-Lehe

In 1929 Ohlrogge bought the house at Marcusallee 3 on Bremen's Rhododendron Park for 150,000 gold marks . The property known today as Villa Ohlrogge , with its own park, was almost 7,000 square meters in size. At the end of the war the house was confiscated and served as quarters for refugees. In 1955 it became the property of Bremen and then served as the French consulate for many years.

family

The daughter Gertrud Ohlrogge moved to the Ernsthausen estate in Leuchtenburg in the Osterholz district .

In 1959, the granddaughter Heidi Strohmeyer married Ernst Albrecht, who later became the managing director of Bahlsen and Lower Saxony's Prime Minister, in Ernsthausen . His daughter Ursula von der Leyen has been German Federal Minister since 2005 .

Honors

  • Ohlrogge is the namesake of the fishing motor boat of the same name, measured at 246 GRT, built in 1925. On July 20, 1943, the Richard Ohlrogge sank in the Great Belt after being hit by a mine.
  • In 1950 the Ohlroggestraße in the fishing port of Cuxhaven was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bremen houses tell history, Volume 2, 2011, Döll Edition, p. 113.
  2. ↑ Norddeutsche Fischerei-Zeitung of July 9, 1926.
  3. ↑ Bremen houses tell history, Volume 2, 2011, Döll Edition, p. 144.
  4. ↑ Cuxpedia.de
personal data
SURNAME Ohlrogge, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German navigator and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1949
Place of death Bremen