Albert Becké

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Albert Becké (full name Karl Albert Becké ; born November 24, 1842 in Hanover ; † 1920 ) was a German architect and engineer and railroad director in Rostock , where he was director of the internationally operating Deutsch-Nordischer Lloyd .

Life

Albert Becké came from a Huguenot family who presumably fled from France and initially lived in Leiningen in Alsace . The former French spelling of her name was Becquée , of whom two ancestors lived as lawyers in Göttingen . Albert Becké was born in 1842 in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Packhof administrator Becké (1802–1880).

After attending school, Becké studied from 1860 to 1866 at what was then the Polytechnic School in Hanover under matriculation number 3289 as a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase .

In 1871, the Hanover Architects and Engineers Association registered its member Becké as an engineer . In the following year, 1872, the - now Prussian - construction manager Albert Becké passed his examination as a master builder .

In Harburg near Hamburg , where Becké worked for a while in the service of the railroad, Karl Alfred Waldemar Becké , who later became a lawyer, city director and mayor of Bremerhaven, was born on December 15, 1878 during the founding period of the German Empire .

Most recently, Albert Becké worked as head of the railroad management in Rostock . In 1890 he was the first director to head the company Deutsch-Nordischer Lloyd together with the "[...] Hofrat Schlaaf" and under the supervisory board and its chairman, Rostock mayor Georg Friedrich Adolf Simonis . The company was an internationally active "[...] railway and steam shipping company . [...] for the construction and operation of the main line Neustrelitz-Rostock-Warnemünde ", was responsible - besides the construction and operation of further railway lines - among other things for the" [...] production and operation of a regular steamship line from Warnemünde to the Danish one Gedser Harbor on Falster ”. The company also worked with the Brussels-based Belgian railroad company Societé Belge de Chemin de Fer to raise funds .

Having become wealthy, he was able to retire at the age of only 50 and from 1892 to live again in his hometown of Hanover.

In 1904 Albert Becké was the first tenant of the rented apartment building at Scharnhorststrasse 6 , built in the same year by the architect Friedrich Ernst Brauns in Hanover - and still preserved today - in which Friedrich Brauns lived himself from 1919.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Glaß: Becké, Albert in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on April 23 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Otto Heinrich May (Hrsg.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , Vol. 22, Part 5), ed. published on behalf of the Historical Commission, Hildesheim, Leipzig: Lax, 1962, pp. 40–52; here: p. 41; Preview over google books
  3. ^ A b Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover , Volume 17, year 1871, Issue 1, p. 1; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b Yearbook of the Berlin Stock Exchange. A reference book for bankers and capitalists , ed. from the Berlin Stock Exchange, Berlin: Mittler, 1890, p. 482; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 6th year, Berlin: Commissions-Verlag von Carl Beelitz, 1872, p. 208; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ oV : Becke, Waldemar in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of 3 May 2010 last downloaded 23 April 2017
  7. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Brauns, Friedrich Ernst in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on April 23, 2017
  8. ↑ Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender, Statshaandbog for Kongeriget ... (in Danish), JH Schultz Universitetsbogtrykkeri, 1908, Sp. 155 digitalisat , HathiTrust
personal data
SURNAME Becké, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becké, Karl Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and railway director
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1920