Wilhelm Karl Krupp

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Wilhelm Karl Krupp (* 1710 ; † January 22, 1774 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Wilhelm Karl Krupp was the son of pastor Bernhard Heinrich Krupp in Lünern , a grandson of the merchant and gun dealer Anton Krupp (1588–1661) in Essen . From 1724 he learned the trade in Lübeck in the trading business of Anton Friedrich Bordehl († 1739). As a merchant he traveled to Gdansk, the Baltic States and Russia. In Germany he visited the Braunschweig fair . 1734 he formed with the Lübeck Bernhard Vermehren († 1759) in Riga a commercial transaction. In 1741 he took over the trading business of his late former principal Bordehl in Lübeck and married his widow Justiana Bordehl nee Bötker. Krupp was a member of the Lübeck Schonenfahrer and was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1757, where he is recorded in the archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as the betting ruler .

He lived in the rococo palace he had built in Schüsselbuden 15, which he had equipped with a library and a collection of paintings. The house was rebuilt in 1805 by the Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie for the businessman Konrad Platzmann and later housed the Pfluegsche Weinhandlung , from 1919 the Lübecker Disconto-Gesellschaft and was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

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SURNAME Krupp, Wilhelm Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1710
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1774
Place of death Lübeck