Warner Poelchau

Warner Poelchau in 1874 as a student in Göttingen

Martin Eduard Warner Poelchau (born May 4, 1852 in Hamburg , † May 20, 1922 in Bad Eilsen ) was a German runner and member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Poelchau was the son of the lawyer and later higher regional judge at the Hanseatic higher regional court Hermann Poelchau . He attended the Johanneum School of Academics until he graduated from high school. He then studied law in Bonn , here as a member of the Corps Palatia , in Jena as a member of the Corps Guestphalia and most recently in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After the state examination, he took up his first position in the public prosecutor's office at the Hamburg district court . He then became director of Anglo-Deutsche Bank in Hamburg and, after its takeover in 1892, became a member of the management of Dresdner Bank . In 1911 he founded the company Poelchau & Schröder. This took over the representation of the London-based money house J. Henry Schröder & Co. in Hamburg and in the German Empire.

Poelchau was first lieutenant in the reserve of the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich III." (2nd Silesian) No. 11 . He was a member of various supervisory boards , such as the German-West African trading company or the Neue Assekuranzgesellschaft in Hamburg. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and of the "Einigkeit" society founded in 1761 . From 1902 to 1910 Poelchau was a member of the Hamburg parliament.

He was married to Ragna Schroeder, daughter of the Hamburg Senator Octavio Schroeder, and had six children with her. The Hamburg lawyer Harald Poelchau was his younger brother.

literature

• Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Volume 1: 1809-1899 , Göttingen 2002, No. 718
• German Gender Book , Volume 27, p. 133.
• Ernst Friedrich Goverts : The list of members of the society "Unity" in Hamburg (founded 1761). Edited and explained. An anniversary gift to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. Hamburg 1911.