Henry Brarens Sloman

Henry Brarens Sloman ( born August 28, 1848 in Kingston upon Hull, † 24 October 1931 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg businessman and banker. Even before and after the First World War, he was regarded as a major importer of Chile saltpeter from its own mines.

After the father of Henry Brarens Sloman had lost his entire fortune during the Crimean War, he sent his son and his daughter Harriet to the wealthy relatives in Hamburg. After completing an apprenticeship Henry decided to emigrate to Chile, on the advice of his childhood friend Hermann Fölsch, whose father also lent the necessary travel money in 1869. Through his friend, he also got a job in Iquique and worked as a manager for Fölsch & Martin later. After 22 years, in 1892 he became self-employed in Chile with his first saltpeter factory " Good Hope" in Tocopilla. In 1898 he returned as a rich man to Hamburg. In the appeared in the 1912 ranking of the richest Hamburg Sloman is listed in Hamburg at rank 1 with a capacity of around 60 million marks and an annual income of around three million mark, by far the wealthiest person. In 1924 Henry Brarens Financial Bank AG which later became the Bank Sloman KG was. In 1976 it was merged with the Bank Hardy & Co. GmbH for Hardy - Sloman Bank GmbH. In 1981 it was acquired by Deutsche Bank countries, which in turn belongs today UBS AG Germany.

He was the builder of the 1924 finished Chile house in Hamburg and the hunting lodge Bellin in Mecklenburg.

Family History

The great-grandfather of the family in Hamburg, William Sloman, moved in 1791 with his wife and eight children by UK Great Yarmouth in the Hanseatic city. In 1793 he founded his company, the shipping company Sloman, which still exists today as the oldest shipping company in Germany. In 1850, his son Robert Miles Sloman in London the first German steam ship for the transatlantic traffic build, the " Helena Sloman ". He was a great-uncle of Henry Brarens Sloman, whose parents were John and Alaine Sloman.