Robert Eduard Julius Mestern

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Robert Eduard Julius Mestern (born August 15, 1848 in Hamburg ; † January 2, 1892 in Alexandria ) was a Hamburg merchant and member of parliament.

Life

Mestern completed a commercial apprenticeship at A. Tesdorpf & Co. in Hamburg, which was managed by Adolph Tesdorpf . He was appointed authorized signatory in September 1866. In July 1870 Mestern became a partner and after Adolph Tesdorpf retired in 1876, Mestern became the owner of the company.

Mestern belonged to the supervisory board of the Vereinsbank Hamburg from 1885 to 1892 . For a time Mestern was also a member of the supervisory boards of the German Levante Line and the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft . Mestern was part of the board of directors of the North German Insurance Company, a forerunner of the Ergo insurance group . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .

From 1880 on Mestern belonged to the Commerzdeputation , which he headed from 1885 to 1888 as President. Mestern belonged to the Hamburg citizenship from 1874 to 1892 . He joined the faction on the right.

family

The father was the merchant Johann Christian Andreas Mestern (1799-1884), who had emigrated from Altona and ran the grain trading company JCA Mestern in Hamburg, his mother Justine Lisette Wilhelmine Möring (1815-1892). Robert Mestern married Anna Elisabeth Baasch, a sister of Ernst Theodor Baasch , on October 22nd, 1870 .

literature

  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of Hamburg's economy: 1850–1950 . Hamburg 1984, p. 96.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present day / on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History. Founded by Hans Schröder, continued by AH Kellinghusen. 8 vol., Perthes-Besser and Mauke, Hamburg 1851 - 1883, vol. 5 (1870), Maak - Pauli, p. 216, no. 2542.
  2. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 51, (Hamburg Gender Book Volume 7), 1927, p. 39
personal data
SURNAME Mestern, Robert Eduard Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg merchant and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1892
Place of death Alexandria