Gustav Leyke
Gustav (Adolf) Leyke (born September 10, 1851 in Sittnow , West Prussia ; † July 28, 1910 in Misdroy , Wollin Island ) was a businessman and local politician in Berlin . Leyke had been a city councilor in Rixdorf since December 17, 1892 .
Live and act
Gustav Leyke came to Rixdorf in 1876 with some capital and set up a grocery and coal shop there at Ziethenstrasse 51 and Kopfstrasse. Appropriately, he married the daughter of the wool manufacturer CJ Krebs from Berliner Strasse (today Karl-Marx-Strasse ), Anna, which anchored him in the established Rixdorf bourgeoisie. His coal trade flourished, and in 1895 he expanded his company into a coal wholesaler on the newly acquired property at Bergstrasse 78-80 at the corner of Lahnstrasse (today Karl-Marx-Strasse 244-246), to which the town house on Hasenheide , built in 1898 (no. 68) with a garden and the access to a wood behind the house.
Business success and local family ties led to the Leyke family being held in high esteem - and to a number of municipal political offices for Gustav Leyke: first he worked as a municipal representative, he worked in the Rixdorf municipal administration from December 17, 1892, then from 1899 - when he was awarded the City rights to Rixdorf / Neukölln - as city council under Mayor Hermann Boddin . At the same time he chaired the deputation for the municipal lending office and the committee for material management, and also worked as deputy chairman of the deputation for the poor, the deputations for fire extinguishing, for hauling, for street cleaning and garbage disposal and as a member of the finance and Cash deputation and the board of the municipal savings bank.
Shortly before the age of 60, he died suddenly during a spa stay on the Baltic Sea on July 28, 1910. It is reported that the vast majority of the Rixdorf bourgeoisie paid him their last respects at the burial at the Thomasfriedhof. In addition to the family, the magistrate, city councilors, the association of city officials, a delegation from the bank association, the association of Rixdorfer landowners and the gymnastics association "Jahn" were gathered.
Later, through Gustav Leyke's granddaughter, there were family connections to the family of the Berlin fur merchant and long-time head of the Berlin City Council Paul Michelet (1835–1926), the 51st honorary citizen of Berlin (1914).
Gustav Leyke is buried in the St. Thomasfriedhof in Berlin-Neukölln on Hermannstraße (churchyard of St. Thomasgemeinde II, Hermannstraße 179-185 [east side], level with the Leinestraße underground station).
Leykestrasse
In his honor, Leykestrasse in the Berlin district of Neukölln (Nord-Neukölln, formerly Rixdorf) was named after him:
Leykestraße is a cross street from Hermannstraße. It connects this with Mittelweg (a continuation of the Kopfstraße) and has a course of almost 200 meters. It closes off the eastern part of the cemeteries on Hermannstrasse to the north (diagonally across from Leinestrasse, which closes off the western part of the cemeteries to the north from the " Schiller (promenaden) kiez ").
The former street No. 207c in the development plan has been named after the Rixdorf city councilor Gustav Leyke since December 12, 1911.
literature
- Rita Röhr: Hereditary tradition - real estate as a constant . In: Udo Gößwald on behalf of the Neukölln District Office of Berlin, Dept. Education, School and Culture (Ed.): Family things: Accompanying volume for the exhibition “Family things” from May 10, 2003 to April 3, 2004 in the Neukölln Heimatmuseum . Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-00-011433-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leykestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leyke, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leyke, Gustav Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City councilor and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sittnow |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1910 |
| Place of death | Miedzyzdroje |