AEMI

PAUL-HEINZ PAUSEBACK
soldier with the Dutch East-India Company
Volquart Iversen supported his elderly
father in Husum.
Here we have another illustration of
how money that flows back from overseas
could be useful in enabling innovations
in the local area. Another
example is Auguste Petersen from Wester-Ohrstedt
a little village near Husum. 7
She did not go overseas herself, but received
money from a legacy. Her uncle
had been a rich brewer in the United
States and he had died unmarried and
childless. After his death his relatives in
Germany and Denmark received regular
payments from a trust. It is interesting
to the author, that again it was an unmarried
woman who developed in the
role of a small local investor. It is said
that she got angry, when she was asked
for trifles, e. g. to supply the family cof-
Fig 5 Simon Detlef Bahnsen, born 1800, as a young
man he emigrated from Schleswig to St. Thomas in
the Caribbean and returned 1840 as a rich
merchant.Source: NordseeMuseum Nissenhaus.
Fig 6 View of St. Thomas about 1840, showing the coal wharf of Simon Detlef Bahnsen.
Source: Picture in oil from an unknown artist, NordseeMuseum Nissenhaus