Bismarck was influenced by Hamburg merchants and traders, his neighbors at Friedrichsruh.
As son of a bookkeeper to a Hamburg merchant, Vollmer grew up in humble circumstances.
The son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London.
Ownership over the land changed between several owners, most of them Hamburg merchants until in 1837 local farmers collectively purchased the land they had cultivated since generations.
From 1795 to 1805, he worked as a tutor to the family of a wealthy Hamburg merchant.
Conrad was a prosperous Hamburg merchant, but he was the one poetically-dispositioned member of an eminently practical family.
"It would be weird and romantic," said the Hamburg merchant.
"Hundreds of wolves," said the Hamburg merchant, who was a man of strong imagination.
She was the daughter of a Hamburg merchant and an enthusiastic admirer of his poetry.
Winthem belonged to a long-established family of Hamburg merchants.
