Adolph Woermann (1847-1911)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/138194
- Name (English)
- Adolph Woermann
- Short name
- Adolph Woermann
- Year of birth
- 1847
- Year of death
- 1911
- Short Description
- "Adolph Woermann (10 December 1847 in Hamburg – 4 May 1911 in the Grönwohld-Hof near Trittau) was a German merchant, shipowner and politician, who was also instrumental in the establishment of German colonies in Africa. In his time he was the largest German trader to West Africa and – with his Woermann-Linie – the largest private shipowner in the world." - (en.wikipedia.org 03.01.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- kiz
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