Richard Piehl

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Richard Heinrich Piehl (born July 3, 1867 in Lübeck , † July 14, 1922 in Travemünde ) was a German wholesale merchant and member of the Lübeck citizenship.

Life

origin

Piehl father, Christian August Heinrich Piehl (1834-1889) was, in the old connections to Finland entertaining company Jac. Ludw. Bruhns & Sohn employed. Hermann Fehling was trained there as a wholesale merchant . When he was 21 years old, he had the opportunity to start his own business with an older colleague, Heinrich. The action company Piehl & Fehling who acted with cereal and coffee acted and also took advantage of the connections to Finland, should be far Lübeck known beyond the borders. Your company developed into a wholesale company . After Heinrich Piehl's early death in 1889, Richard Piehl joined the company as a partner.

career

Piehl was a member of the Lübeck citizenship .

As consul , Piehl represented the Kingdom of Belgium in the Hanseatic city .

After his death, Piehl was buried in the family grave located under an obelisk in Lübeck's general church .

family

Family grave

Piehl had been married to Elisabeth, a daughter of the Lübeck wine merchant Johann Heinrich Harms (1810-1893) and thus brother-in-law of Johannes Fehling , since 1890 . The marriage produced four sons and one daughter.

From 1894 the family lived in the front row 59 house in Travemünde.

Trivia

After the death of Senator Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorpf were appointed guardians of the five children he left behind.

Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he would later receive the Nobel Prize , we meet the businessman Piehl the Elder. Ä. as a businessman Strunck and the company Piehl & Fehling we find there again as Strunk and Hagenström .

literature

  • Lübeck State Handbook. Lübeck 1903.
  • German gender book . tape 91 , 1936, pp. 264 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bardenhewer bought Piehl & Fehling
  2. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Fehling. In: Lübeckische Blätter . , Volume 49, number 50, edition of December 15, 1907, pp. 707-710.
  3. ↑ Quoted from Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860–1945. Bremen 2007, p. 8.
  4. ↑ House history ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on gvt.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gvt.de
  5. ^ Buddenbrooks - List of real names
personal data
SURNAME Piehl, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piehl, Richard Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1922
Place of death Travemünde