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    {
        "id": 213237,
        "series_id": 26,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1994",
        "page_number": 59,
        "title": "RAS-1994",
        "content_text": "38\n\nWilhelm Detmers became a partner in Radecker and Co. in the 1880s and was still with it, though living in Hamburg, at the time of liquidation of the company in 1914.\n\nThis somewhat tortuous account of the partnerships, changing of firm names, and former employees forming new companies illustrates some of the complicated relationships in the business community in Hong Kong, especially among the individuals who never developed such large trading interests as companies like Melchers, Siemssen and Co. and Arnhold, Karberg and Co.\n\nRadecker, Hagedorn and Co., Krummenacher and Co., Vogel Hagedorn and Co.\n\nRadecker and Co. was among the German firms placed in liquidation in 1914. Richard Hermann Radecker from 1862 to 1864 was an accountant in Schellhass and Co. He was briefly with Elmenhorst and Co. before he went into partnership with F.W. Hagedorn as Radecker, Hagedorn and Co. in July 1865 (GG July 1865). Mr. Radecker retired from the firm in 1867, but the business was continued by the remaining partners as Hagedorn and Co. (GG 5 Jan. 1867). Mr. Radecker continued as an independent merchant until he joined with Joseph Krummenacher in the firm of Krummenacher and Co. (GG 2 Jan. 1869). From 1876 to 1882, Richard H. Radecker appears in the jury lists as a merchant in the firm of Radecker and Co. He died in Hamburg on 12 April 1884, aged forty-four years (DP 23 May 1884).\n\nJoseph Krummenacher, who joined up with Mr. Hagedorn in 1869, had been since 1866 a partner in the firm of Sander and Company (DP 29 Sept. 1866, GG 8 Feb. 1868). Mr. Krummenacher last appears on the jury list in 1872.\n\nFrederick William Hagedorn began his business career in Hong Kong in 1864 as an assistant in the firm of Hesse, Ehlers and Co. In July 1865, he and Richard H. Radecker became partners. He continued the business when Mr. Radecker left the firm in 1867 (GG 1 July 1865, 5 Jan. 1867). Hagedorn and Co. took on two new partners in 1868, and the name of the firm was changed to Vogel, Hagedorn and Co. The new partners were Emil Vogel and Heinrich Kirchhoff (GG 15 Feb. 1868). In 1877, Mr. Hagedorn retired from this company (DP 3 Sept. 1877).",
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    {
        "id": 213238,
        "series_id": 26,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
        "series_use_hku_proxy": false,
        "document_key": "RAS-1994",
        "page_number": 60,
        "title": "RAS-1994",
        "content_text": "39\n\nEmile Ernest William Vogel had previously been an assistant in the large American firm of Russell and Co. After Mr. Hagedorn and Mr. Vogel dissolved their partnership, Vogel continued in business as Vogel and Co, until he left Hong Kong in 1881/82.\n\nE and J Meyer, Meyer and Co, Garrels, Börner and Co, Meyer, Alabor and Co, Meverink and Co, Rodatz and Co\n\nThe firm of E. and J. Meyer was in operation by the year 1863. The 1866 Hong Kong Directory names the partners as Heinrich Constantine Meyer, Wilhelm Daniel Johannes Meyer (absent) and Otto Benecke. One of the assistants was G.C.F. Rodatz, who later went into business as Rodatz and Company. The same year the firm executed a deed of assignment of its assets to Frederick August Julius Menke and Albert Eduard Deetjen (GG 1 Dec. 1866). Heinrich Constantine Eduard Meyer later appears in 1891 as a partner in the firm of Meyer and Company.\n\nAt about the same time as the firm of E and J. Meyer closed, the firm of Bahlmann and Company had financial reversals. It was dissolved. The liquidators were A. Letham and Adolph Meyer (DP 25 Aug. 1866).\n\nAdolph Emil Meyer is on the Hong Kong jury lists in 1865 as a clerk of (E. and J.) Meyer and Co., in 1866 as a merchant in Bahlmann and Co., in 1867 as an independent broker, from 1868 to 1871 as a merchant, and then successively with Meyer, Alabor and Co. and Meyer and Co. He died in March, 1884 at Hamburg, aged thirty-nine. His obituary states he was a partner in Messrs. Meyer and Co, Hong Kong (DP 9 May 1884).\n\nJohannes Alabor and Adolph E. Meyer entered into a partnership about the year 1873. In 1872, J. Alabor is listed as an assistant to A.E. Meyer, and from 1869 to that year he was an assistant in Schellhass and Company. The partnership between Meyer and Alabor, as Meyer, Alabor and Co., was dissolved in 1876 (DP 1 May 1876). Shortly after, Mr. Alabor opened an office in his own name (DP 1 July 1876) until the year 1880, when there must have been financial reversals, for he then became an assistant in the firm of Lammert and Co. He died in Hong Kong in May 1891, leaving a small estate of $1,500 (GG, H.K. Probate Calendar, 1891). The interest of Adolph Meyer was acquired after his death by Heinrich Constantine Eduard Meyer, of Hamburg and London. Johann Heinrich Garrels, who had become a partner about 1884, retained his interest in the firm.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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