Johann Christian Zimmermann


Johann Christian Zimmermann was a German businessman and politician, who served as consul of Hamburg in Buenos Aires.

Biography

Zimmermann was born in Eckenhagen, son of John Zimmerman and Anna Elizabeth Moes, born in Prussia. He emigrated at an early age to the United States, and arrived at the port of Buenos Aires around 1817, associating itself commercially to the family of Patricio Lynch with which it founded the company Lynch & Zimmerman. He also associated with his relative Nalbro Frazier, with whom he owned of the company Zimmermann & Frazier co.
Between 1819 and 1821, Zimmermann served as Vice-consul of the United States. Later he was designated as Consul in Bremen and Hamburg.
In 1824, his wife Helena Dorothea Halbach Schmidt died in Buenos Aires. Zimmermann remarried in 1827 with Maria Luisa Halbach Schmidt, belonging to a German family established in the city.
Johann Christian Zimmermann had a preponderant role in Argentine politics, forming part of the first board of the National Bank of the Argentine Republic in 1826.