Siebs, Nicolaus August #38 Chairman (1900-1901)

Updated on September 25, 2020

Nicolaus August Siebs #38 (1900-1901)

Office Held	Year(s)
Chairman	1900-1901
Deputy Chairman	1899-1900
Director	1896-1897, 1897-1898, 1898-1899, 1911-1912

Undated photograph of Nicolaus August Siebs taken in Hong Kong. Credit: wremer-chronik.

Raw data
Siebs was born on August 17, 1840 in Wremer in Lower Saxony, Germany to Eibe-Hinrich Siebs.
He joined the trading firm of Siemsen & Co. in 1865 as a shipping clerk and rising to the top position of a partner in 1881.
Siebs served on the General Committee (1900-1901) and the Arbitration Committee (, 1894-1895, 1900-1901) of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (1901). He was a director of Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd. (1906), the board of which was comprised of, with the exception of its chairman, C.W. Dickson, all HSBC men, viz. Paul Chater (HSBC Chief Manager), A. Haupt, A.J. Raymond, E. Shellim and H.P. White.
Siebs died in 1910. (to be completed) 1896 head of hong kong resided at Victoria Lodge, Peak Road 1906 Hans August Siebs E.A.H. Siebs

Information and commentaries pertaining to this term of office
Other members of the Board of Directors	Roderick Mackenzie Gray (#37), James Johnstone Keswick (#39), Armin Haupt (#44), David Meyer Moses1, Abraham Jacob Raymond (#41, #42), Frederick Carl Paul Sachse, Robert Gordon Shewan (#40), R.L. Richardson2, Henry Adolphus Warre Slade3
Corporate affiliation of board members	Arnhold Karberg (de), Gilman, Jardine, Melchers (de), Reiss, Sassoon D, Sassoon ED, Shewan Tomes, Siemsen (de)
Overlaping with the Chamber of Commerce	General Committee (out of 9 committee members 6 were HKBC directors): Thomas Jackson (Chair), Haupt, Kewsick, Richardson, Siebs, Tomkin (#43, #48) Arbitration Committee (4 out of 5): Haupt, Richardson, Siebs, Tomkin Corresponding Committee (2 out of 4): Jackson, Keswick

1. Moses was a partner of David Sassoon Sons & Co.
2. Richardson was later replaced by Paul Witkowski, partner of Arnhold Karberg & Co.
3. Slade was a partner of the firm Gilman & Co.

Selected bibliography: China Mail, September 1, 1897, p.6.; August 18, 1900, p.5. The Directory & Chronicle of China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Malaya, Borneo, Siam, the Philippines, Korea, Indo-China, Netherlands Indies, Etc. 1906. Hong Kong Daily Press, March 2, 1896, p.3. Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Annual Report for 1894, 1900. Juror List.

To Be Completed