Julius Caesar Czarnikow

Julius Caesar Czarnikow (1838 – 17 April 1909) was a German-born, London-based sugar broker and investor.

Julius Caesar Czarnikow
Born1838
Sondershausen, Germany
Died17 April 1909 (aged 70–71)
London, England
OccupationSugar broker
Net worthGBP£1 million[1]
Parent(s)Moritz Czarnikow
Johanne Bar

Early life

Julius Caesar Czarnikow was born in 1838 in Sondershausen, Germany.[2][3] He was of Polish Jewish descent.[4] His father was Moritz Czarnikow and his mother, Johanne Bar.[3] He was baptized 1862 in Berlin, and married in 1863 Holy Trinity, Clapham.

Czarnikow moved to England in 1854,[5] and he became a British subject in 1861.[6] He resided in Effingham Hill House and Eaton Square (1901 census), London. He married Louisa Ellen Ashlin (1840-1911), with whom he had 2 children : Horace (1864 -1933), and Louisa Ada (1867-1948).

Career

Czarnikow founded a sugar brokerage firm, Czarnikow & Co., in 1861, which now trades as Czarnikow Group Ltd.[6] Its first office was at 18 Philpot Lane, London,[7] and the compant later had offices in Liverpool, Glasgow and New York City.[2] He partnered with Manuel Rionda of Cuba, who admitted to Czarnikow in 1909 that he struggled to find the right chemist for sugar manufacturing.[8]

Czarnikow was an investor in a sugar shipping company from the West Indies to Central Europe.[1] By 1872, he was also the largest investor in the South Carolina Phosphate Company.[9] Additionally, by 1888 he was an investor in the London Produce Clearing House,[1] and he served as its deputy chairman.[6]

Death
Memorial Mosaic, St Lawrence's Church, Effingham

Czarnikow died on 17 April 1909 in London.[10] By the time of his death, "he was said to be the biggest sugar broker in the world",[10] with an estimated wealth of £1 million.[1]

At Probate in 1909 his executors included Julius Charles Ganzoni (born 1852 in Austria, died 1949 in Cambridgeshire); the 1911 census stated he was a partner in a firm of colonial brokers, and his son Francis J Childs Ganzoni (born 1882) was a barrister.

References
  1. Chapman, Stanley D. (1992). Merchant enterprise in Britain : from the Industrial Revolution to World War I. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 9780521351782. OCLC 23694086.
  2. "OBITUARY". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 57 (2944): 465. 23 April 1909. JSTOR 41338589.
  3. Orbell, John. "Czarnikow, (Julius) Caesar (1838–1909), sugar broker". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (2003). Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765–1914. New York City: Routledge. ISBN 9780415215763. OCLC 43913171.
  5. Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472905734. OCLC 882574116.
  6. Norman, Peter (2011). The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing in Globalised Financial Markets. New York City: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470686324.
  7. Janes, Hurford; Sayers, H.J (1963). The Story of Czarnikow. London: Harley Publishing Company Ltd. p. 19.
  8. Dye, Alan (1998). Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780804728195. OCLC 36485838.
  9. Tischendorf, Alfred P. (October 1955). "A Note on British Enterprise in South Carolina 1872–1886". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 56 (4): 196–199. JSTOR 27566023.
  10. "London Sugar Merchant Dead". The Leavenworth Times. Leavenworth, Kansas: Newspapers.com. 18 April 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 20 April 2016.


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