Rudolph Crasemann

Gustav August Rudolph Crasemann ( born August 14, 1841 in Hamburg, † November 24, 1929 in Blankenese ) was a Hamburg merchant and Member of Parliament.

Life

Crasemann completed a commercial education in Hamburg and was then in the same company Commission. After the company in which he has been a part, had been liquidated, he founded in 1861 together with Ernst Friedrich Stavenhagen the company Crasemann & Stavenhagen. The company has been working very successfully in overseas business. In the late 1875 Stavenhagen joined in 1876 a younger brother Crasemanns into the company.

From 1877 Crasemann belonged to the Commercial Deputation, which he headed as Church President from January 1891 to January 1895 and from January 1915 to January 1917. Crasemann continued to volunteer involved in many ways in various deputations in Hamburg. From 1880 and 1883 to 1907 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Crasemann was 1909-1912 Vice President of the Hanseatic League and head of the Hamburg branch. He was an opponent of the planned conversion of the Colonial Institute to the University of Hamburg. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Association of the German fleet associations abroad.