Otto Lagerfeld

Otto Lagerfeld
Born
Otto Christian Ludwig Lagerfeld

20 September 1881
Hamburg, Germany
Died4 July 1967(1967-07-04) (aged 85)
Baden-Baden, Germany
OccupationBusinessman
Spouses
Theresia Feigl
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(m. 1922; died 1922)​
Elisabeth Bahlmann
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(m. 1930)​
Children3, including Karl Lagerfeld

Otto Christian Ludwig Lagerfeld (20 September 1881 – 4 July 1967) was a German businessman, who in 1919 founded the German company Lagerfeld & Co, which imported evaporated milk.

He was the son of a wine merchant from Hamburg, Tönnies Johann Otto Lagerfeld (1845–1931) and his wife Maria Wilhelmine Franziska Lagerfeld (née Wiegels) (1848–1936).[1] He was married to Theresia Feigl (1896–1922) in 1922; they had a daughter Theodora Dorothea "Thea" Lagerfeld (1922- circa 2007).[2] His first wife died the same year of their marriage. In 1930 he remarried to Elisabeth Josefa Emilie Bahlmann (1897–1978), daughter of the Catholic Centre Party local politician Heinrich Maria Karl Bahlmann, and they were the parents of Martha Christiane "Christel" Lagerfeld (1931–2015) and of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019).[3][4][5]

Otto Lagerfeld and his family belonged to the Old Catholic Church.[4][6] His family was mainly shielded from the deprivations of World War II due to his membership in the Nazi party and his business interests in Germany through the firm Glücksklee-Milch GmbH.[7][8][9] Otto Lagerfeld had been in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake.[10]

  1. ^ "Obituary notice". Hamburger Nachrichten. 24 June 1931. Retrieved 21 February 2019 – via The European Library.
  2. ^ "Family tree of Theodora Dorothea 'Thea' LAGERFELD". Geneanet. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. ^ Kopitzsch, Franklin; Brietzke, Dirk (2001). Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon. Vol. 2. Wallstein Verlag. p. 234. ISBN 978-3-7672-1366-1.
  4. ^ a b Jaeger, Hans (1982). Lagerfeld, Otto. Retrieved 21 February 2019. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Family tree of Elisabeth Josefa Emilie BAHLMANN". Geneanet. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Martha Christiane 'Christel' Johnson". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  7. ^ Kaiser, Alfons (2022). Karl Lagerfield A life in Fashion. Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-500-77730-5.
  8. ^ Sahner, Paul (2009). Karl (in German). mvg verlag. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-86882-015-7.
  9. ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 9. Gale Research. 1998. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7876-2221-3. Retrieved 7 January 2012. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born on 10 September 1935, in Hamburg, Germany.
  10. ^ Horyn, Cathy, "Why Fashion Films Are Usually Cartoons," The New York Times, Sun. 6 October 2013, p. 13