Robert Heidmann

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Robert Waldemar Heidmann (born September 23, 1858 in Hamburg , † June 7, 1914 in Wismar ) was a businessman and Senator from Hamburg.

Life

Heidmann grew up in Hamburg and after a commercial apprenticeship he lived in England and France for a few years before he and his brother took over the HW Heidmann business , a coal and shipping company founded by his father in 1848, in 1887 . In addition to his professional activity, he was appointed to the finance deputation. In 1904 Heidmann was elected to the Hamburg parliament, where he joined the right-wing parliamentary group. On March 19, 1909, Heidmann was elected to the Hamburg Senate for the retiring Senator Eduard Heinrich Roscher . In the ranking list of wealthy people from Hamburg published in 1912, Heidmann was roughly 87th with a fortune of 3.9 million marks. In the Senate, Heidmann initially held the offices of Deputy President of the Deputation for Trade, Shipping and Trade, as well as that of Chairman of the Slaughterhouse Deputation. He was also a member of the Senate Commission for Railway Affairs and second parish lord at the Holy Trinity Church in St. George . Heidmann made outstanding contributions to port issues and in 1908 negotiated the coal fire agreements with Prussia , which were an important basis for the subsequent port expansion . Heidmann was a staunch supporter of founding a Hamburg University . He publicly advocated this idea several times, also as a senator, knowing full well that the majority in the Senate was against the establishment of a university. It was extremely unusual for the time that a dissent that prevailed within the Senate became public.

Heidmann died of a heart attack while traveling by train when he was about to return to Hamburg from a spa stay. Anton Rodatz was elected as his successor in the Senate .

source

  • Obituary from the Neue Hamburger Zeitung, No. 262 of June 8, 1914

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Rudolf Martin (ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the three Hansa cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), Berlin 1912; Hamburg part, p. 13

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personal data
SURNAME Heidmann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidmann, Robert Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1914
Place of death Wismar