194: in 1783. The company was also involved in commodities trade from England to Russia and the Levant, extensive shipping ventures, whaling ventures in Greenland and insurance activities. By 1785 Gossler and his wife held an equity stake of nearly half a million Mark Banco in the company, twice as much as the brothers Johann and Paul Berenberg combined 17 years earlier. In the 1790s the company again doubled in size, reaching an equity capital of about a million Mark Banco by the end of the century. Under the leadership of his son-in-law and his son, the company became one of the largest sugar importers on the North European market. Astrid Petersson notes that the company's "extensive sugar imports in the period after 1814, especially from Brazil, the U.S. and East Asia, some of which represented a continuation of their trading relationships dating back to the late 18th century, contributed significantly to the company's wealth."
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158:(1718–1772) and his only surviving child and sole heir after the death of her brother; Paul Berenberg had no children. After the wedding Johann Berenberg made his son-in-law a partner in 1769. Upon the death of Johann Berenberg in 1772, Johann Hinrich Gossler became the company's sole owner. In 1777 he named his brother in law Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg (1746–1819) as a partner. In 1788, Gossler took on his own son-in-law
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Ostasien, die teilweise eine
Fortsetzung ihrer bereits Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts geplegten Handelsbeziehungen darstellten, dürften wesentlich zum Erwerb ihres Vermögens beigetragen haben. In Verbindung mit ihrer Position als Merchant Bankers erwarb sich jene Firma eine angesehene Stellung über die Grenzen Deutschlands hinaus, die um 1830 nur wenige Handelshäuser aufzuweisen hatten.
128:, the brothers imported luxury goods from overseas for sale on the northern European market, notably sugar, and were involved in insurance, merchant banking and shipping ventures. At the time the office and warehouse of the Berenberg brothers was located in a building they had inherited from their father in Gröningerstraße.
201:), two to three accountants and four to six servants assisting the partners, that is, at various times, Johann Hinrich Gossler, his father-in-law, his brother-in-law and his son-in-law. The work at the head office mainly consisted of business correspondence, accounting and decisions about contracts. Gossler acquired
42:, that was renamed Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. the year following his death. During Gossler's tenure as the company's main partner it became one of the largest merchant houses of Hamburg. Many of his descendants were prominent in Hamburg society, including his grandson, Hamburg's first mayor
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Beispiel für ein bedeutendes, u.a. aufgrund seiner umfangreichen Zuckerimporte zu Wohlstand gelangtes Hamburger Handelshaus sei auf die Firma Joh. Berenberg, Goßler & Co. verwiesen. Ihre vielfältigen Zuckerimportgeschäfte in der Zeit nach 1814, insbesondere mit Brasilien, den USA und
170:, an infamous former banker whose unethical business practices had made him highly controversial in Hamburg in the 1760s, but who later became one of the leading theatre principals of 18th century Germany. L.E. Seyler was born in Hamburg, but grew up with his uncle
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Gossler's tenure he expanded the company's international trade with the Americas significantly. Denmark, Spain and France had liberalized trade with their colonies in the 1760s, while the United States had been independent since the conclusion of the
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makers in
Hamburg at least since the 17th century. The name Gossler appears in the city already in the 14th century, although it is unknown if it is the same family. Gossler's maternal grandfather Jürgen Friedrich Boedecker was a Hamburg merchant and
224:(1805–1879). Johann Heinrich Gossler III was the father of Johann Berenberg Gossler (1839–1913). In 1880, the Hamburg Senate granted Johann Berenberg Gossler the name of Berenberg-Gossler, and in 1888, the family was ennobled in the
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Schramm, Percy Ernst (April 1959). "Kaufleute Während
Besatzung, Krieg und Belagerung (1806–1815). Der Hamburger Handel in der Franzosenzeit, Dargestellt an Hand von Firmen- und Familienpapieren".
88:. Johann Hinrich Gossler attended the Johanneum zu Michaelis and started his career at 15 as an apprentice of the merchant Hinrich Mönkhusen. After Mönkhusen went bankrupt he became a
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Der bedeutende
Hamburger Kaufmann Johann Hinrich Goßler hatte 1778–80 zwei Leute im Kontor und vier bis fünf Dienstboten, 1785–89 drei Leute im Kontor und fünf bis sechs Dienstboten
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Zuckerhandel in Hamburg im Zeitraum von 1814 bis 1834: Entwicklung und Struktur zweier wichtiger Hamburger Wirtschaftszweige des vorindustriellen Zeitalters
244:(1866–1943), Senator and German Ambassador in Rome. Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg were also the grandparents of Betty Seyler (1789–1837), married to businessman
205:, one Hamburg's largest city palaces, which was both the Gossler family's city residence (they spent the summers on a property outside the city) and the company's headquarters.
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from 1706, and his great-grandfather Eibert
Tiefbrunn was also a prominent Hamburg merchant. A list of his ancestors is included in the
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Hinrich Gossler was a son of Johan Eibert Gossler (1700–1776), an accountant and burgher of Hamburg who had bought the office of
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Neun
Generationen: Dreihundert Jahre deutscher Kulturgeschichte im Lichte der Schicksale einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie (1648–1948)
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Engelsing, Rolf (1967). "Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Differenzierung der deutschen kaufmännischen Angestellten 1690–1900".
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for 10,600 mark, making him master of ceremonies of the Hamburg council. The Gossler family had been burghers and
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Petersson, Astrid (1998). "Die wirtschaftliche Situation des Zuckersiedergewerbes und Zuckerhandels".
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Schramm, Percy Ernst (1 October 1957). "Hamburger Kaufleute in der 2. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts".
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Schramm, Percy Ernst (1 October 1957). "Hamburger Kaufleute in der 2. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts".
154:(1749–1822) in the same year. She was the only daughter of the Berenberg company's surviving owner,
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Kopitzsch, Franklin; Brietzke, Dirk, eds. (2001). "Johann Hinrich Gossler".
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216:(1772–1842) and the grandfather of Hamburg senator and First Mayor
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232:. In 1910, Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was raised to the
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Jacob GOSSLER (1666–1732), velvet maker, Hamburg burgher
46:. Some of his descendants were later ennobled as the
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268:Ancestors of Johann Hinrich Gossler
166:—as a partner. Seyler was a son of
61:are named in honour of his family.
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59:Antarctica
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