Arnold Rimpau

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Arnold Rimpau (* July 5, 1856 in Braunschweig ; † January 2, 1936 in Bandelstorf near Rostock; full name: Ludwig Arnold Rimpau ) was a German businessman , entrepreneur and landowner .

life and work

Arnold Rimpau came from a farming and merchant family that had lived in Braunschweig since the 17th century and was the son of the merchant August Rimpau , who belonged to the core of the economic bourgeoisie in Braunschweig before industrialization, in 1848 was the fifth most taxed person in the city and - like other wealthy Brunswick citizens - felt obliged to promote the common good .

Rimpausche Villa (2010)

After Arnold Rimpau had attended the ducal high school Martino-Katharineum at Easter 1874 with the Abitur and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Bremen and England , he joined his father's business in 1880. In the Norddeutsche Torfmoorgesellschaft (wholly owned by the Rimpaus since 1890) he worked on the cultivation of the Great Moor north of Gifhorn . After it had succeeded in gaining new agricultural land, Rimpau laid out the "Arnoldshof" and "Mathildenhof" farms . In addition, he made sure that the peat extraction was carried out by machines. He had peat processed into fuel, peat waste and litter in factories in Gifhorn . In addition, Rimpau campaigned for the expansion of the road, canal and railway network around the Great Moor; So he subsidized the railway connection between the places Triangel and Isenbüttel and financed two connecting routes for peat transport from his own resources.

Like his father August, Arnold Rimpau felt obliged to promote the common good. B. Funds for the preservation of old half-timbered houses and church paintings are available. He lived in a representative villa named after him , which at the time was a social center of the city and a meeting place for important personalities such as B. Ina Seidel or Heinrich Sohnrey was.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Appelhans, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. P. 491.
  2. ↑ Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present, Volume 3: Modern times. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 78.
  3. ↑ Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present, Volume 3: Modern times. P. 82.
  4. ↑ Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present, Volume 3: Modern times. P. 80.
  5. ^ Karl Theodor Gravenhorst : II. School news from the director of the grammar school, Schulrath C. Th. Gravenhorst In: Program of the grammar school Martino-Catharineum before the upper and Progymnasium in Braunschweig. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig, 1874, p. 33.
  6. ↑ a b c d Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. P. 492.
personal data
SURNAME Rimpau, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimpau, Ludwig Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, entrepreneur and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1936
Place of death Bandelstorf