Paul Isenberg
Paul Isenberg ( born April 15, 1837 in Dransfeld, † January 16, 1903 in Bremen ) was a German sugar producer in Bremen and Hawaii.
Biography
Isenberg was the son of a pastor and superintendent in Wunstorf. He attended the grammar school in Brunswick. From 1858 he trained as a farmer in Hawaii. After that, he was manager on a cattle ranch and finally on a sugar plantation. He married the daughter of the plantation owner and was their leader. 1867 his first wife died. He established links with the sugar merchant Hinrich Hackfeld.
In 1869 he married Beate ( Wobetha Margaretha ) Glade ( 1846-1933 ), a daughter of a Bremen merchant. Initially they both lived in Hawaii and his company had considerable commercial success. 1878 both moved to Brunswick and in 1879 to Bremen. Here they lived in the house contrescarpe No. 3 ( later site of the playhouse ). 1881 Isenberg partakers of the sugar factory Heinrich Hackfeld. As Hinrich Hackfeld 1886 at the age of 70 years fired the senior management to Isenberg, the company H. Hackfeld and Co. was one of the largest sugar mills in Hawaii. Isenberg supported some social projects, especially the 1846/1847 created by George Treviranus Ellener yard, a home for abandoned children in Bremen- Osterholz ( Ellener field) in Bremen. He set up a Paul Isenberg Foundation, which received at his death with a bequest of 100,000 marks for the Ellener yard. The Isenberg Foundation was dissolved in 1966.
In 1895 came the Good Kamp (formerly Good Travenort ) in Segeberg near the border with East Holstein in Holstein Switzerland in the possession of Isenberg. Until 1897 he built for his family's farm, which has since remained in the possession of the family and on the post-1945 began the breeding of Schleswig draft horses.
1903, after the death of Isenberg, the company remained with Beta Isenberg and beiHackfeld. Third and last head of the company was consul Johann Friedrich Hackfeld.
Beate Isenberg continued the generous support of social action. She lived in Bremen, contrescarpe 19, in what is now the house of the French Institute. She was chairman of the association for a place of refuge for women and girls, and built 1914/15, designed by Abbehusen and Blendermann the Isenberg home in the New Town, Kornstraße 209/211.
The Isenbergsche assets in Hawaii went first 1917/18 in the First World War and lost decreased significantly in Bremen during the inflation 1923/24.
Clara Isenberg, a daughter Isenbergs, married in 1907 his second wife Sielcken Hermann, a German - American businessman who made a fortune as a coffee importer.