Otto 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).[1] He married to Theresia Feigl in 1922; they had a daughter Theodora Dorothea "Thea" Lagerfeld (1922). His first wife died the same year of their marriage. 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 and of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.[2][3][4]

Otto Lagerfeld
Born
Otto Christian Ludwig Lagerfeld

20 September 1881
Hamburg, German Empire
Died4 July 1967(1967-07-04) (aged 85)
Baden-Baden, West Germany
OccupationBusinessman
Spouse(s)
Theresia Feigl
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(m. 1922)​

Elisabeth Bahlmann
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(m. 1930)​
ChildrenTheodora Dorothea Lagerfeld
Martha Christiane Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld

Otto Lagerfeld and his family belonged to the Old Catholic Church.[3]

References
  1. "Obituary notice". Hamburger Nachrichten. 24 June 1931. Retrieved 21 February 2019 – via The European Library.
  2. Kopitzsch, Franklin; Brietzke, Dirk (2001). Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon. 2. Wallstein Verlag. p. 234. ISBN 9783767213661.
  3. Jaeger, Hans (1982). Lagerfeld, Otto. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  4. "Family tree of Elisabeth Josefa Emilie BAHLMANN". Geneanet. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
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