Adolf Lewissohn
Adolf Lewissohn (born July 6, 1852 in Berlin-Tempelhof ; died November 14, 1927 in Berlin-Mariendorf ) was a German real estate and finance broker.
Life
Lewissohn's parents were the businessman Salomon Lewisson (born August 5, 1805; died April 18, 1876 in Mariendorf) and Fanny (née Blume or Bluhme, born March 11, 1822 in Neubrück, district of Samter; died March 17, 1912 in Hohenschönhausen ). Fanny appears in the Berlin address books for the first time in 1853 with the address Dorfstrasse 11 in Tempelhof under the name Levissohn as a cutlery dealer and in 1862 under Levisson with the activity of innkeeper. Salomon was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Schönhauser Allee and Fanny on March 20, 1912 in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee . Further personal data about his parents are still unknown.
Lewissohn had two sisters, Pauline (born 1851; died April 3, 1881 in Mariendorf) and Sara (born 1854; died September 28, 1922 in Hohenschönhausen). Pauline died of chronic cerebral and spinal cord paralysis at the age of only 30 and was buried on April 6, 1881 at the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery. Sara married the deaf lithographer Karl Friedrich Oskar Rumpf (born July 10, 1849; died June 1, 1919 Hohenschönhausen) on May 12, 1875 in Tempelhof and they had five children (three sons and two daughters) between 1876 and 1884. They lived at Chausseestrasse 16 (today: Mariendorfer Damm 34) in Mariendorf.
At the age of 14 he started an apprenticeship as a belt maker in Berlin and successfully completed this apprenticeship as a craftsman . Later he worked as a trade or businessman.
Adolf Lewissohn married Louise Friederike Müller (born September 11, 1852 in Tempelhof; died March 31, 1931 in Mariendorf), an ice-cream trader, on May 6, 1887 in Mariendorf. Her father was the laborer August Ferdinand Müller (born November 18, 1821; died June 28, 1860) and her mother was the laundress Dorothee Friederike Müller (born Schulze, born 1821; died April 9, 1901). His wife Louise Friederike had seven siblings, five sisters and two brothers.
Together they had a daughter by the name of Helene Elise Selma (born June 18, 1874 in Tempelhof; died April 17, 1957 in Tempelhof), whose paternity Adolf judicially recognized almost a year after the wedding on April 28, 1888. In contrast, while his wife and daughter were baptized Protestants , like both his parents and sisters, he was Jewish .
Work in Tempelhof and Mariendorf
In 1871, his father Salomon Lewissohn bought a plot of approx. 9.5 acres from the Tempelhof manor , which consisted of arable land on the one hand and a wet moorland meadow , partly overgrown with high swamp and water plants, on the other , which was covered with water for many months . This northwestern property in the Mariendorf district at that time still belonged to Tempelhof and formed the border to Mariendorf, hence the name Grenzweg .
The property was also in the area of a chain of ponds and lakes and belonged to an old river valley, which further west bears the name Bäketal and which around 30 years later served as the basis for the Teltow Canal . Even if, due to the intervention of Adolf Lewissohn, the canal was not built on the Mariendorf area, but on the Tempelhof side.
Lewissohn founded and built the seaside resort Mariendorf from 1872 , which was opened in 1876.
In the winter months, the ponds and water areas of the Tempelhofer and Mariendorfer Feldmark , which were leased by Lewissohn, were used to extract natural ice . Since the artificial ice production was not yet known, one was dependent on natural ice and the main customers could be z. B. the beer breweries on Kreuzberg in Berlin fill the ice cellars or the surrounding slaughterhouses that did not yet have cold stores. The Tempelhof ice works was very well known at the time.
In the mid-1890s, Adolf began as a real estate broker and mortgage broker. He had a close friendly relationship with the Tempelhof mayor Friedrich Mussehl (1855–1912) and the director of the Tempelhof Terrain Society, attorney Oscar Hinze. Furthermore, he is said to have had a strong influence on the planning of the Tempelhof industrial area.
In 1899, together with his friend Adolf Auerbach, he succeeded in convincing the individual owners from Lankwitz and Mariendorf to sell an area of around 300 acres to the Imperial Continental Gas Association , which then built the Mariendorf gasworks on it. The gasworks was the largest taxpayer in Mariendorf until 1912. B. the town hall and the Eckener-Gymnasium as well as numerous municipal roads are built.
The Teltow Canal was built between 1900 and 1906 and during this time the Teltow District Administrator Ernst von Stubenrauch , also known as the "father" of the Teltow Canal, and the Havestadt & Contag engineering office responsible for the entire construction with locks and auxiliary buildings such as the storage facility in the Tempelhof harbor have often sought advice and support from him.
In 1917 he was appointed managing director of the Allgemeine Tempelhofer Terrain Gesellschaft mbH .
death
Adolf Lewissohn died at the age of 76 on November 14, 1927. The tahara and the coffin took place at the Weissensee Jewish cemetery. At his cremation on 18 November 1927 at the Wedding crematorium Gerichtsstraße the famous held Rabbi Malwin Warsaw from the New Synagogue in Oranienburger Straße mourning speech and his oldest friend, the Tempelhof landscape painter Julius Bodenstein , the farewell speech at the burial in the cemetery Mariendorf II .
Mayor Reinhard Bruns-Wüstefeld had expressed condolences to his widow on behalf of the district office. "The deceased had made a great contribution to the establishment of an exemplary seaside resort in our district, which is very poor in terms of bathing opportunities."
He was buried on November 23rd in the Mariendorf II cemetery on Friedenstrasse in the grave site Section III No. 91. His wife Luise followed him there in 1931 and his daughter Helene in 1957.
Honors
In 1928, a year after his death, his daughter Helene set up a boulder with a dedication in the private park of the Seebad .
On this stone was written: "In memory of the founder and creator of the Mariendorf seaside resort Adolf Lewissohn born on July 6th, 1852 in Tempelhof died on November 14th, 1927"
The whereabouts of the foundling is unknown today. It is possible that the stone was removed during the National Socialist period in the 1930s after the expropriation , but at the latest in the mid-1950s together with other boulders from the stone grotto, when the seaside pool was filled in.
Since the gravesites of the Lewissohn family in the Mariendorf II cemetery were cleared 30 years after Helene's death in 1987, there is no longer any public reference to the family in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district or the Mariendorf district.
Since 2016 there has been an initiative to bring the name back out of oblivion and to name the new building of a multifunctional pool after Helene Lewissohn, which is to open at the location of the previous combined pool Mariendorf on Ankogelweg in Mariendorf around 2025.
On September 13, 2016, the parliamentary group of the Left, together with the parliamentary group of the SPD, submitted the proposal to the District Assembly (BVV) Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Because of this, it was decided at the meeting on November 16, 2016, against the votes of the AfD parliamentary group, to lobby the district office and the responsible authorities to ensure that the name of the Lewissohn family receives public recognition in Mariendorf.
On July 11, 2017, the parliamentary group of the Left in the BVV Tempelhof-Schöneberg submitted an application to realize the memory of Adolf Lewissohn in the Mariendorf district. As a deserving citizen of the district, Adolf Lewissohn was completely forgotten and a plaque in his honor was indispensable in view of his achievements for today's district of Mariendorf. The memorial plaque is to be affixed to his former place of activity (i.e. the former seaside resort and residential building) and in coordination with the current property owner, the Alloheim senior citizens' residence 'Ullsteinstraße', in such a way that it is protected from anti-Semitic attacks.
On March 20, 2019, two further applications on the life and work of the Lewissohn family were submitted to BVV Tempelhof-Schöneberg, on the one hand to commemorate Adolf Lewissohn's birthday on July 6, 2019 as part of a memorial event and, on the other hand, a Traveling exhibition on the history of sports in Mariendorf the memory of Adolf and Helene Lewissohn are kept alive.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Levissohn, b. Flower . In: General housing indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1853, p. 393.
- ↑ Levisson, F., b. Flower . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1862, p. 299.
- ^ Advertisement of the new management Adolf Lewissohn on page 11 in the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung of March 5, 1917
- ^ Obituary notice from his wife Louise and daughter Helene on page 10 in the Berliner Tageblatt of November 16, 1927
- ↑ Berlin-Lichtenrader Zeitung and Anzeiger of November 23, 1927
- ↑ Matthias Heisig: From the Lewisson ice works to the Tempelhof hospital. The Mariendorf seaside resort as a place of history , in: Matthias Heisig / Sylvia Walleczek (eds.): Tempelhofer Insights , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-932482-97-2 , pp. 202-233.
- ↑ Helene Lewissohn Bad - Name for the new swimming pool in Mariendorf on www.schwimm-blog-berlin.de
- ↑ Application: Name the new multifunctional bathroom after Helene Lewissohn (PDF)
- ↑ Excerpt - Name the new multifunctional bathroom after Helene Lewissohn
- ↑ Printed matter - 1997 / XIX Name new multifunctional bathroom after Helene Lewissohn
- ↑ Printed matter - 0331 / XX to commemorate Adolf Lewissohn in the Mariendorf district
- ↑ Printed matter - 1072 / XX Against forgetting: Memorial event for Adolf Lewissohn
- ↑ Printed matter - 1076 / XX Remembrance of Adolf & Helene Lewissohn keep awake - Remember sports history in Mariendorf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewissohn, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German real estate and finance broker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Tempelhof , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1927 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Mariendorf |