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Villa Stangen in Berlin-Lichterfelde

Carl Friedrich Stangen (born May 5, 1833 in Bad Ziegenhals , Neisse district , † November 21, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur, world traveler and writer. He founded Carl Stangens travel agency , the first internationally operating travel agency in Germany, which earned him the name of the German Thomas Cook.

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Carl Stangen was born in the Upper Silesian town of Bad Ziegenhals in 1833 as the son of the officer Ernst Friedrich Stangen. At the age of ten, his father sent him to the military education institute in Annaburg . There he was a pupil from 1843 to 1848. After being classified as unfit for medical reasons, he returned to Silesia and began a professional career in the postal service. Stangen administered the post office in Tannhausen near Bad Charlottenbrunn. In his spare time he wrote short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines.

His brother Louis Stangen (* 1828 in Ottmachau , † 1876 in Bad Charlottenbrunn ) began to organize special and company trips in 1863 with company headquarters in Breslau in Silesia . He asked his brother Carl to join the company. In 1863 and 1864 both published travel guides and newspapers. In 1867, Louis arranged for Carl to move to Berlin. In 1868, Carl Stangen opened a travel agency there with his brother. In November 1868 he went into business for himself and opened Carl Stangen's travel agency (now Carl Stangen's travel bureau ). It was initially located at Mohrenstrasse 10, later a building was built in the oriental style at Friedrichstrasse 72. The building designed by the architect Gustav Gause was called the “Arabian House”. Between 1868 and 1899, Stangen's travel agency made 686 trips. Among other things, a trip to Egypt was offered in 1873 and a trip around the world in 1878 . During the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, a group called Stangens Party was formed and traveled across the North American continent. He founded and operated the travel guides and magazines "Der Tourist" (1884) and "Stangens illustrated travel and traffic newspaper" (1894).

Hectographed menu - trip from SS Thalia to Jerusalem October / November 1898 (95 × 152 mm)

For October / November 1898 he chartered the ships SS Bohemia and Thalia from Österreichischer Lloyd . With these the participants from Protestant church circles who accompanied the Palestine trip of Emperor Wilhelm II. To the opening of the Church of the Redeemer on October 31, 1898 in Jerusalem (so-called festival trip) from Trieste or Venice, who according to their status did not open rode the imperial ships, which were limited in their capacity (see the adjacent picture of a menu from the voyage). For this purpose, Carl Stangen had advertised in the Neue Preußische Zeitung on July 31, 1898 (No. 353, supplement).

Advert from 1904

At the beginning of 1905, Carl Stangen sold his travel agency to Hapag when, after the great success of their cruises, the Hapag board wanted to become more involved in tourism. Hapag, which had previously also operated a travel agency on Unter den Linden , renamed the company to “Travel Agency of the Hamburg-America Line”. As a result of this merger of the two travel agencies, Hapag became one of the largest tourism providers, the Berlin office was located on Unter den Linden. Stangen's sons Ernst and Louis continued the travel agency under their direction. The company still exists today as a Hapag-Lloyd travel agency .

Carl Stangen died on November 21, 1911 in Berlin-Lichterfelde , where he had lived since 1901. He was buried in the park cemetery there. His gravestone has not been preserved.

In addition to his work for his father's travel agency, Stangen's son Ernst ran an “Orient goods warehouse” for the import and sale of “art and industrial objects from abroad”. In 1899 he had the Villa Stangen built at Drakestrasse 51 in Lichterfelde.

Commemoration

On May 5, 1908, on Stangen's 75th birthday, his old friends and schoolmates planted a Carl-Stangen memorial oak at the old military school in Annaburg. A celebration was held there for his 175th birthday and a plaque was unveiled.

literature

  • Alina Dittmann: Carl Stangen - tourism pioneer and writer: the German Thomas Cook, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Peter Lang Edition [2017] (Polish Studies in German Studies, Cultural Studies and Linguistics; 8) ISBN 978-3-631-66120-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baedeker & Cook: Tourism on the Middle Rhine 1756 to approx. 1914, page 245
  2. ↑ On the "Saale" to the New World
  3. ↑ Compare: Thomas H. Benner: The rays of the crown: the religious dimension of the empire under Wilhelm II against the background of the Orient trip in 1898 . Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2001, p. 235, and [Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen, Hrsg .:] The German imperial couple in the Holy Land in autumn 1898. With the utmost authorization of His Majesty the Emperor and King, edited according to authentic reports and files . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1899, pp. 415-422 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ History of Hapag-Lloyd ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hapag-lloyd.de
  5. ^ Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: An oak tree is reminiscent of Carl Stangen
personal data
SURNAME Rods, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stangen, Carl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, world traveler and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ziegenhals , Neisse district
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1911
Place of death Berlin