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Hermann Henrich Meier war ein deutscher Kaufmann, Reeder und Parlamentarier.
The German shipping company North German Lloyd (NDL) was founded by the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann on 20 February 1857, after the dissolution of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, a joint German-American enterprise.
Hermann Henrich Meier has managed it. Along with young Eduard Crüsemann from Berlin, he has convinced Bremen business to invest in a “magnificent, exclusively German” Transatlantic steamship line. Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd – NDL) is founded in Bremen on 20 February 1857.
When Hermann Heinrich Meier was born on 3 September 1822, in Prussia, Germany, his father, Albert Henrich Meyer, was 43 and his mother, Anne Maria Elisabeth Feldmann, was 36. He married Anna Marie Catharine Rosenkötter on 2 May 1849, in Hiddenhausen, Herford, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany.
Dr Hermann Heinrich Meier was a German merchant and collector from Bremen. Life: Meier's father, H. H. Meier Sr (1809-1898), was a merchant and entrepreneur.
The Bremen ship UHLAND was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, for the Bremen shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier (later one of the founders of Norddeutscher Lloyd), and was launched on 23 September 1847.
Meier: Hermann Henrich M., als Sohn eines angesehenen Kaufmanns geboren zu Bremen am 16. October 1809, † ebenda am 17. November 1898, hat an der Förderung des Handels und der Schifffahrt Bremens und am öffentlichen Leben seiner Vaterstadt sowol wie auch Deutschlands thätigen und erfolgreichen Antheil genommen.
