Johann Heinrich Schröder

Johann Heinrich Schröder ( John Henry, since 1868 Freiherr von Schroeder, born December 8, 1784 in Hamburg, † June 28, 1883 ) was a Hanseatic merchant.

• 2.1 Schröderstiftstraße

Life

The son of the Hamburg businessman and mayor Christian Matthias Schröder as this merchant. In 1804 he went as a 17 -year-old to his brother Johann Friedrich ( 1780-1852 ) to London. 1818, after the dissolution of the partnership with his brother, Johann Heinrich Schröder founded his own business in London, the Commercial Bank J. Henry Schroder & Co. The following year (1819 ) the creation of JH followed Schröder & Co. in Hamburg, where Johann Heinrich then returned permanently.

Previously, Schroeder had on January 26, 1819 Henriette of Schwartz ( born June 7, 1798 in Hamburg, ibid † January 5, 1889 ) married the daughter of the Prussian Consul General in Hamburg William Schwartz ( 1763-1832 ), Privy Councillor of Commerce and merchant to Hamburg, and Henriette Lütkens ( 1777-1835 ).

Schröder negotiated mainly with sugar, cotton, coffee and indigo in the import and export of these goods via London and Hamburg to Saint Petersburg.

The combination of trade and trade finance earned him a considerable fortune. From 1848 to 1868, he gave 261 customer loans for trade financing. In 1870 he succeeded in the first issue of a Japanese government bond in the west. From the London bank later, the private bank Schroders plc was formed.

In 1824 he purchased the 1795 for John Thornton ( 1764-1835 ) by Christian Frederik Hansen built house on the Elbchausee ( No. 201), which was demolished in 1914. The corresponding plot is divided and a portion was donated in 1953 by Schroeder as Schroeder's heirs Elbpark the city of Hamburg.

In 1839 he opened a bank branch in Liverpool.

Schroeder earned the 1850 Good wholesale swan lake (municipality Kalkhorst ) in Klützer angle, which remained in the family until 1945.

On December 26, 1868, he was raised in Berlin in the hereditary Prussian baron, what in Hamburg for criticism made ​​(see Hanseatic League and needle). On the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary, he was with the Hamburg honor commemorative coin in gold, the highest award of the Hamburg Senate.

After his death he was buried in a mausoleum built for him on the Dammtorbahnhof cemeteries. With the repeal of the cemeteries a new family mausoleum was built in 1906 on the Ohlsdorfer cemetery in which his coffin was transferred. The mausoleum of the Schröder family is by far the largest mausoleum of the cemetery ( range: 53 ° 37 ' 42.7 "N, 10 ° 2' 46.1 " O53.62851666666710.046138888889 ).

Progeny

Henriette and Johann Heinrich Schröder had twelve children, three of whom have died in infancy. The oldest child was the daughter Helene (1819-1909), who later Bernhard Donner (1809-1865) married Bankhaus Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank, she lived long the thunder Park and donated the Helen pen. The daughter Harriet Schröder (1836-1899) married Adolph Godeffroy. The eldest surviving son of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm ( John Henry) took the leading role in the family business and the London company. The other two surviving sons were presented by the company in Hamburg and Liverpool ( William Henry, 1841-1912 ). The daughter Francisca Henriette (1821-1902) married Anton Schröder (1830-1896), a son of John Henry 's younger brother Anton Dietrich Schröder ( 1779-1855 ). Two other daughters married brothers and relatives from Quakenbruck Bernhard Hinrich (1816-1849) and Johann Rudolph (1821-1887) Schroeder, the founder of the trading and banking house Schroder Brothers & Co.. Johann Rudolph and his wife Clara (1829-1900 ) were the parents of Bruno Schroder, who continued the family business in London in the next generation. As with the Rothschild family, it was under John Henry's children and descendants of a whole series of parallel cousins ​​and cross- cousin marriages.

Kurt von Schröder was a great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Schröder.

Aftereffect

Schröderstiftstraße

In 1850, he called the Joh. Schroeder's charitable foundation and provided them with assets of 1 million marks. From the Hamburg Schröderstiftstraße at the Sternschanze emerged as a housing complex for needy women of the upper classes, planned by the architect Albert rose garden and built in 1851 / 52. Later the road was named Schröderstiftstraße before the pin.

The abbey, now a retirement home for needy pensioners / inside, moved in 1971 to a new location on Kiwittsmoor subway station in Hamburg- Horn Long, north of the hospital ox inches.

From 1971 to 1979, the Hamburg Student leased on temporary contracts, the use of residential units in the historic convent building to students. In opposition to demolition plans formed in the following years the tenant self-administration Schröderstiftstraße, which manages the building, with its 100 residents to date. The Chapel of the pin in the Byzantine style now serves the Coptic Orthodox church as a church.

2006 and 2007, wrote that Schroder Investment Management GmbH as a subsidiary of Schroders plc in collaboration with the Handelsblatt an award for German -speaking young financial journalists, whom she named after Johann Heinrich Schröder.