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Record Nr.

UNINA9910169655403321

Autore

Schröder Hans Joachim

Titolo

Julius Carl Ertel. Ein Hamburger Industrieller / Hans Joachim Schröder . Volume 19.0

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Hamburg University Press, 2017

Hamburg : , : Hamburg University Press, , 2017

ISBN

9783943423389

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Collana

Mäzene für Wissenschaft

Soggetti

Biotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Julius Carl Ertel held a special position as director and later as sole owner of a copper smelter in the commercial and trading city of Hamburg. Born in Wroclaw, he came to the Hanseatic city at the age of 26. Together with Rudolph Bieber, he founded Ertel, Bieber & Co. in 1872. The company had its facilities in the middle of the harbour area. However, Ertel gained its decisive importance through the extensive connections he made with numerous other companies throughout Germany. In the supervisory boards of these companies, he played an active role in building up the expanding economy of the Gründerzeit. Ertel was not a man who pushed himself into the foreground. This early donor of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung acted as a networker in the modern sense of the word