August Bödecker (teacher)

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Portrait relief of the co-founder of the Lehrter financial institutions in front of the Volksbank at August-Bödecker-Platz 1 in Lehrte

August Bödecker (full name Carl August Bödecker ; * March 12, 1838 in Lehrte ; † February 24, 1919 ibid) was a German sexton and teacher adjunct , farmer and company founder as well as manager and business promoter. The namesake of August-Bödecker-Platz in Lehrte is considered to be the main initiator for the establishment of the Lehrter financial institute and the Lehrter sugar factory.

Life

August Bödecker was born in the time of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1838, just a few years before the industrialization of the village, which until then had only 65 farmsteads, could begin with the construction of the - now listed - Lehrte train station between 1842 and 1845.

August was the son of Johann Heinrich Bödecker (born August 13, 1793 in Aligse ; † February 20, 1880 there), who worked as a landlord in Lehrte No. 2 , and Ilse Rosine, née Lampe (born January 31, 1796 in Lehrte; † September 10, 1842 ibid). Even before the birth of August Bödecker, his father had established a connection to the local school when, on April 17, 1833, Wilhelm Baxmann issued a guarantee document that Bödecker's father owed 100 Thalers in gold to the teacher Basemann. This documented decades later, an application of the "Halbhöfners Louis Basemann no. 15 to Lehrte", as well as the intermarriage Lehrter families Bödecker and Baxmann by the marriage of William Baxmann and his wife Marie Dorothek, born Bödecker publicly announced by the Royal Prussian District Court Burgdorf on November 18, 1870.

After attending school himself, Carl August Bödecker married his wife Louise Dor on December 29, 1868 in Lehrte. Caroline, née Bode (* October 21, 1842 in Lehrte; † October 20, 1912 ibid), with whom he had only one child, the later writer Heinrich Carl Ernst Bödecker (* 1869 in Lehrte; † 1959 ibid). In the year his son was born, the sexton and schoolteacher assistant at the time asked his employer, the Royal Consistory of Hanover, to successfully request his dismissal.

Bödecker taught the children of Lehrte as a teacher at the school there, but also worked as a farmer. After initially working and later successor to the pharmacist from Ilten and later mining commissioner Burchard Retschy , he became managing director of the Agricultural Association for Teaching and the Surrounding Area and then also looked after his students in financial matters.

Building on his experience in providing monetary support to his students, August Bödecker became one of the founders of the Lehrter financial institutions, which were then organized as a cooperative , in the early founding days of the German Empire in 1873 ; both the - at that time - "Advance and Spar-Casse" in Lehrte, from which the cooperative bank later emerged, and the "Central Advance and Savings Association", from which the "Lehrter Volksbank von 1873" was to develop. Both banks finally merged, more than a century after their foundation, in 1975 to form Volksbank eG.

Around nine years after the opening of the two financial houses, August Bödecker called a meeting on August 25, 1883 to found the Lehrter sugar factory in the Schliephake'schen inn . After the assembly had decided to found this company, which was decisive for the Lehrte economy at the time, they elected August Bödecker to the board of directors of the sugar factory, which as a large industrial company then worked “hand in hand” with the farmers who were then growing sugar beet in and around Lehrte .

Carl August Bödecker was buried on February 26, 1919 in his hometown of Lehrte.

August-Bödecker-Platz

In honor of the teacher August Bödecker, through whose commitment the establishment of the Lehrter financial institute and the Lehrter sugar factory was significantly promoted, the board of the Volksbank Lehrte-Springe-Pattensen-Ronnenberg decided in October 2006 to name the new building of the financial institute on site as "August- Bödecker-Platz 1 “. An information board installed on the square with the relief portrait of the honored person has been informing the public about these relationships ever since.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Compare the text on the memorial plaque installed on August-Bödecker-Platz in Lehrte
  2. ↑ a b c d e Carl August Bödecker and cross-references in the genealogical family database of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  3. ↑ a b o.V. : Personal Chronicle , in: Kingdom of Prussia . Official Journal for Hanover , born in 1869, Hanover: Druckerei W. Jürgens, [1869], p. 427f .; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Carolin Krumm (editing), Anne-Kathrin Fricke-Hellberg (collaborator), Peter F. Lufen, Dietmar Vonend (editing) et al. : Historical overview , in: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1: Landkreis Hannover , ed. by Christiane Segers-Glocke , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 280; as well as Lehrte, Stadt Lehrte , oaO, p. 585f.
  5. ↑ top v .: Ediktalladung , in: Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger , Vol. 10–11, 1870, p. 4725; Preview over google books
  6. ^ A b Uwe Wallbaum: The beet sugar industry in Hanover. On the origin and development of an agriculturally bound branch of industry from the beginnings to the beginning of the First World War (= contributions to economic and social history , vol. 83), also dissertation 1996/97 at the University of Göttingen, Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998, ISBN 978- 3-515-07232-8 and ISBN 3-515-07232-2 , p. 172; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Bettina Drückler: The history of the Rats-Apotheke in Lehrte on the page rats-apotheke-lehrte.de [ undated ], last accessed on August 2, 2017
  8. ↑ Cornelia Kuhnert (text), Günter Krüger (photos): The water tower. The landmark of Lehrte , in this: 111 places around Hanover that you have to see , [Cologne]: emons, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-707-7 and ISBN 3-95451-707-8 ; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Bödecker, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bödecker, Carl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, farmer, bank and company founder and manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Taught
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1919
Place of death Taught