Wilhelm Brandt (shipowner)

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Wilhelm Brandt (born January 1, 1778 in Hamburg , † August 5, 1832 in Arkhangelsk ) was a German wholesale merchant and shipowner .

Pillar villa at Elbchaussee 186 in Hamburg

The family immigrated to Hamburg from Pomerania. The father Johann Wilhelm Brandt (1736–1800) was a ship broker in Hamburg. Wilhelm Brandt founded a commission trading company in Arkhangelsk in 1802. In 1810 he founded a sugar factory that soon supplied all of northern Russia. After 1816 his trading house owned the largest domestic fleet in Arkhangelsk and Saint Petersburg with 20 sailors . Around 1820 he had a splendid pillar villa built at Elbchaussee 186, based on the model of a castle in the Crimea .

Brandt was since 1825 Kommerzienrat , consul general for Hamburg and consul for Bremen and the Netherlands. His sons continued to run the business in Russia until 1917. His first marriage was to Wendeline van Brienen (1788–1826) and his second marriage to Mary Crowe (1804–1879). One of his sons from his first marriage, Robert (1824–1887), was a painter in Rome.

literature

  • Erik Amburger :  Brandt, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 533 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Renata Klee Gobert: Landhaus Brandt "Pillar House" . In: Altona. Elbe suburbs (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1970, p. 191-192 .
  • Wilhelm Volckens: The country houses of Flottbeker Chaussee on Othmarschen and Övelgönner area in the 19th century . In: Messages from the Association for Hamburg History . tape 39 , no. 1919 . W. Mauke Sons, Hamburg 1920, № 4 Brandts Hof, p. [13] 205 ( uni-hamburg.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The company archive, which was set up by Emmanuel Brandt and is of interesting economic history, was handed over to the University Library / University of Illinois in 1975 by the descendant Walter A. Brandt, London; analytical directory: www.library.illinois.edu/archives/uasfa/1535050.pdf.
  2. ↑ Monument protection historic pillar villa expires on Elbchaussee , Abendblatt.de from October 15, 2015 , accessed on March 7, 2016
  3. ↑ Landhaus Brandt, Hamburg - Othmarschen, Elbchaussee 186 , bildindex.de , accessed on March 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wholesale merchant and shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1832
Place of death Arkhangelsk