Julius P. Meyer
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Julius Paul Meyer (November 1, 1871 – July 9, 1945) was a German-American shipping executive.
Meyer was born on November 1, 1871, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was a son of Mathilde (née Teubner) Meyer (1845–1910) and Jurgen Friedrich Heinrich Meyer (1838–1913), the representative of the Hamburg Line for almost half a century who was known as "Steamer Meyer".[1] Among his siblings were sister, Gertrude, and brothers, Carl Gerhard Meyer, Jergen Arnold Meyer, Rudolph Meyer, Otto Meyer.[2]
Career
After attending Hoboken Academy,[1] Meyer began his career in 1888 as an employee of Kunhardt & Co. before becoming general agent of the line, then vice director in 1912.[2] When the United American Line was taken over Hamburg America Line, he became Director-General.[3][4] In this capacity, he reestablished connections with Germany after World War I.[5] After forty-two years with the line, he retired in 1931.[6][3]
Meyer served as president of the Board of Trade for German-American Commerce. He was a member of German Society in New York, founded in 1784, and was chairman of its anniversary committee in 1934.[2]
He was also involved in Republican politics, supporting Charles Evans Hughes for Governor of New York in 1908 and attending the 1908 Republican National Convention in Chicago as a delegate.[7] President Theodore Roosevelt took the Hamburg America Line steamship Winduk from Naples, Italy, to Mombasa, Kenya, during his African safari and Meyer corresponded with Roosevelt's Executive Clerk, Rudolph Forster.[8] In 1927, he attended the funeral of Ambassador Adolf Georg von Maltzan.[9]
