02444nam 22005413a 450 991014966680332120250203235647.0978394342316710.15460/HUP.MFW.16.150(CKB)3790000000064247(OAPEN)1002426(ScCtBLL)d2400f8a-8308-43aa-ba9b-cdb2bccf47f0(OCoLC)1163832435(oapen)doab31686(EXLCZ)99379000000006424720250203i20142020 uu geruuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEdmund Siemers. Unternehmer und StifterJohannes GerhardtVolume 16.0HamburgHamburg University Press2014Hamburg :Hamburg University Press,2014.1 online resource (1 p.)Mäzene für Wissenschaft9783943423167 3943423166 As a creative entrepreneur, Edmund Siemers was one of the pioneers of petroleum trading in Germany. Later he succeeded as importer of Chilean nitre and built up his own fleet of ships. Finally he became a builder and landowner in the north of Hamburg. However, Edmund Siemers became really famous for his two large foundations: in 1896 Edmundsthal-Siemerswalde in Geesthacht, one of the first pulmonary treatment centres in Germany, and in 1907 the lecture building on the Moorweide, still a symbol of "the University" in Hamburg.Edmund Siemers' life is equally linked to the Hamburg, German and Transatlantic economic history of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He embodies a donor from Hamburg's upper middle classes in an ideal-typical manner. This is the first biography of "Hamburg's Carnegie", who also appeared as a donor and member of the board of trustees of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation.Historybicssc"Carnegie of Hamburg"19th century20th centuryEdmund SiemersentrepreneurfounderHamburgHamburg Scientific FoundationshipownerUniversity of HamburgHistoryGerhardt Johannes864649ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910149666803321Edmund Siemers. Unternehmer und Stifter2152471UNINA