Gerhard Carsten Jakob von Hosstrup was a Hamburg businessman and the founder of the Hamburg Stock Exchange building. He became Oberalter in 1843.
Literature
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4. Auflage von 1888–1890 • Die Hamburger Börsen-Halle des Gerhard Carsten Jacob von Hoßtrup, Hamburg, [Schauenburger Str. 55] : C. E. Leverkus, 2002