Wilhelm Gossler

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Wilhelm Goßler , black and white reproduction of a portrait by Julius Geertz

Wilhelm Goßler (born November 13, 1811 in Hamburg ; † November 8, 1895 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and member of parliament. He was a member of the Hanseatic Goßler family .

family

Goßler was a son of Johann Heinrich Goßler (1775-1842), Hamburg senator and owner of the trading company Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co . His older brother Hermann Goßler was Hamburg's mayor from 1874 .

Life

On January 1, 1836, Goßler became a partner in the company Joh.Berenberg, Gossler & Co. Since Goßler demanded after the economic crisis of 1857 that Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co should stop doing banking, there was a dispute with his brother Johann Heinrich Goßler (1805-1879). As a result, Goßler left Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co in 1860 and founded his own company, Wm. Gossler , which continued the goods business of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co in the traditional Mortzenhaus . Goßler was one of the founders of the Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance Company in 1854 ; he was a member of the company's supervisory board until his death. From 1866 to 1895 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Norddeutsche Bank .

In addition to his professional activity, Goßler was involved in various ways in local self-government. In 1849 he was elected to the Commerzdeputation and was sent to various deputations by the latter. In 1853 he acted as President of the Commerzdeputation. From 1857 he was a member of the bank deputation for 3 years, after which he was appointed a non-lawyer member of the higher court for 2 years.

Goßler was a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1863 to 1868.

On April 29, 1873 he was elected senior elder in the parish of Sankt Petri and remained a member of the senior elders' college until his death.

In the civil military , Goßler was adjutant of the general staff from 1845 and 1849 , and from 1848 as first lieutenant .

literature

  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 , p. 27, Hamburg 1984
  • Herwarth von Schade: Wilhelm Gossler . In: On the harmony and welfare of this good city: 475 years of the senior elders' college in Hamburg . Convent, Hamburg 2003, OCLC 53903206 , p. 396 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburgische Biografie  : Personenlexikon, Volume 2, ISBN 3767213664 ; P. 152
personal data
SURNAME Gossler, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goßler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1895
Place of death Hamburg