Siegmund Robinow

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Siegmund Robinow (born July 9, 1808 in Hamburg ; † July 15, 1870 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and member of parliament. From today's perspective, one would also call him a manager .

Life

From 1840, Robinow and his brothers continued the trading company his father had founded. His father, Marcus Robinow , had run the company Robinow, Goldschmidt & Co. since 1826 under the name of M. Robinow . Robinow's brothers ran the Leith and Glasgow branches under the name Robinow & Marjoribanks . In 1848 the company was split up. The company M. Robinow & Sons became insolvent in 1849, from 1851 Robinow became a Hamburg agent of CI Hambro & Sohn , London and a partner in the "Elbkupferwerk" . From 1855 he took over the management of the "Elb-Zuckersiederei" and was then responsible for "Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn ” as involved authorized signatory. During the trade crisis in 1857 , he "temporarily" led the board of directors of the Norddeutsche Bank before he took over the management of the Reiherstieg shipyard in 1858 .

Since Robinow wanted to work for his own account again, he decided to go into business again with his eldest son. On July 1st, 1859, he founded the company "Siegmund Robinow & Son" in Hamburg with his son Hermann Robinow . In 1861 the son Johannes Robinow (1838–1897), and in 1873 the son Carl joined the company as a partner. Siegmund Robinow was married to Therese Dieseldorff (1810-1890).

Memorial stone Siegmund Robinow , Ilandkoppel Jewish cemetery

Robinow belonged to the Hamburg citizenship from 1859 to 1867 . He was elected in the general election in 1859, in 1863 he was mandated as a tax assessor and represented the tax deputation in the following years.

Robinow played a small role during the state visit of the Prussian King Wilhelm in Hamburg in 1868. As part of the state visit, a tour of the Elbe on the new steamship Hammonia was scheduled on September 20 at the invitation of HAPAG . The king and selected guests drove from Hamburg to Stade and back in pouring rain . On the way back, the Hammonia ran into a sandbank at Teufelsbrück . A smaller reserve steamship also got stuck. Robinow, who had accompanied the tour with a smaller company and a self-chartered ship, then offered the tugboat he had used after a few hours and a few maneuvers , so that the king could be brought back to Hamburg. The offer was accepted and the king and selected gentlemen drove to Hamburg, while Robinow and his company transferred to a ship that was moored.

A memorial stone commemorates Siegmund Robinow and his wife in the honorary complex in the “Grindelfriedhof” area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery (Ilandkoppel).

literature

  • Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862 , Hamburg 1909, p. 111.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Bürgerstolz & Kaisertreue , Hamburg and the German Empire from 1871. Christians Verlag 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0645-5 , p. 14

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personal data
SURNAME Robinow, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg merchant and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1870
Place of death Hamburg