Discusión:Familia Boulton

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HL Boulton[editar]

A poco tiempo se convirtió en la mayor importadora de harina en Venezuela. Importaba, además, carbón de piedra, y luego creó unos silos y molinos de trigo que funcionaron durante quince años. Más tarde esa empresa contribuyó al financiamiento de la construcción del acueducto de Coro. Posteriormente, en 1875, fundó la casa de Maracaibo con el nombre de H.L. Boulton Jr. & Co., que era básicamente una casa comercial de exportación e importación de mercancías. Muchos años después, hacia 1926, se involucró más directamente en la actividad agroindustrial. Participó en la creación de la Cervecería El Águila y se dedicaba a la importación de bebidas alcohólicas, como el cognac Hennesy Tres Estrellas. En 1944 la firma creó la Distribuidora Agrícola y Pecuaria S.A. (Agropsa). En 1946 era un importante accionista de la C.A. Ponche Crema, de Eliodoro González P. Sucesores. En 1948 participó en Mavesa, productora de aceites y grasas comestibles. De la Compañía Anónima Industrial de Pesca (C.A.I.P.), fundada en 1938, que procesa conservas de pescado, adquirieron un 51 por ciento de las acciones en 1985, controlando una cuarta parte del mercado local de sardinas enlatadas. Aparte de sus actividades ligadas al sector agroalimentario, la empresa ha incursionado en otras actividades como bancos, seguros, aerolíneas, cemento, siderúrgica, transporte astilleros, bienes raíces, etc. (Boulton, 1992).

La Familia Blohm de Angostura[editar]

Georg Friedrich Blohm started in Venezuela the most important immigration of German merchants from Hamburg and Lübeck and soon became the leader of foreign commercial companies in open competition with Boulton & Cía. Georg Friedrich Blohm, born in the city of Lübeck, arrived in Angostura (Venezuela) in 1839, coming from the Danish island of Saint Thomas where he worked as an employee of the Overmann firm. Here in Angostura he associated with Juan Bautista Dalla Costa, who He appreciated him highly competent, very trustworthy, which earned him valuable relationships, both within the country and abroad. However, in 1834, Blohm separated from Dalla Costa, making the commitment not to install, within the next ten years, any competing or other business in Angostura. That year he traveled to Saint Thomas and married young Ann Margaret, daughter of the island's Justice of the Peace. He then settled in La Guaira, where he became a partner in the Overmann house in La Guaira and Puerto Cabello. In 1844, the tenth anniversary of the signing of the agreement with Dalla Costa in Angostura was celebrated, the year in which the Guiana trade had acquired a great development, so he did not think twice and returned to Angostura, this time to associate with the signature of his compatriot Adolfo Wuppermann, first consul of the Hanseatic cities in Angostura, appointed in February 1838. In addition to consul he had an import and export trade and was as such until 1857 when he was absent from the city.

Angostura's commercial importance was such that around fifteen consulates and vice-consulates were based in the city. The Orinoco network and its numerous ramifications connected to the Amazon basin, allowed Angostura merchant firms to trade a very wide territory, the fruits of which were exported to Europe. On the other hand, the territories of the Llanos, up to the Andes, with all its towns and cities, constituted an extensive market for European merchandise.

After Angostura, Blohm extended its large import and export trade to Maracaibo, Valencia and Barquisimeto, in total seven houses, unified under the Blohm & Cía business name. For this he always had his children and his talent as a true commercial strategist who planned from Lübeck after his retirement, the expansion of his trade.

Georg Blohm, who passed away in Lübeck in 1878, at the age of 77, was an exemplary merchant, of sound principles, ascetic, austere, simple, and within those same ethical and moral principles based on honest trade, they were educated his sons Georg Heinrich and Ludwig Friedrich remained in command of the mercantile houses in Venezuela.

The Blohm House in Ciudad Bolívar was active until the middle of the 20th century and through it the most important stream of Germans who stayed in Ciudad Bolívar, among them and of the last generation, marched Hans Welle, who after working eight years at Casa Blohm, he bought the Hato ¨La Puerta¨ in San Francisco de La Paragua and later, forced by the education of his sons Klaus and Ursula, established a hardware and construction business in Ciudad Bolívar, which together with that of Boccardo is and continues to be the most traditional in the region.

On January 17, 1909, the death Georg H einrich Blohm occurred at the age of 72, ”the son of Georg Friedrich Blohm, who founded in Ciudad Bolívar one of the most powerful merchant houses among the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His brother Ludwig died two years later in 1911