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August bagel
Grave site of the Bagel family on the mound of the north cemetery in Düsseldorf

August Bagel , also "August Bagel the Younger", (born February 10, 1838 in Wesel ; † January 20, 1916 in Düsseldorf ) was a German entrepreneur in the publishing and printing business .

Life

August Bagel, eldest son of Peter August Bagel and Karoline, née Uhlenbruck, came from the respected Huguenot family Bagel , which settled in Wesel at the beginning of the 19th century.

The father, Peter August Bagel, owned the Bagel paper factory in Eggerscheidt , a book printer and the “A. Bagel Verlag ”, whose head office was relocated to Düsseldorf with its head office on Grafenberger Allee in 1878, was founded and operated until 1881. August Bagel, previously a partner and authorized signatory , took over the business of the family company after his death . The sector of school and youth books formed a central area of ​​the publishing program, as well as folk writings, picture books, modeling sheets, maps and calendars. Bagel also published industrial exhibition catalogs, festival and anniversary publications, as well as the magazine of the Association of German Ironworkers called "Stahl und Eisen" (Steel and Iron), the first edition of which appeared in July 1881, in his commission publishing house . Under August Bagel, a publishing department for regional and economic history developed, as well as a department for fiction. His younger brother Felix Bagel (1854–1910) separated and in 1882 founded his own business in Düsseldorf with part of the publishing house.

As a supporter of art, August Bagel was secretary of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia from 1890 and from 1900 to 1920 (until 1911 as a commission print) the Bagel Verlag published the art and culture magazine Die Rheinlande .

In addition to his work in the bagel company , he was a member of the National Liberal Party , which had the transformation of the German Empire into a modern industrial state as its fundamental goal, for twenty-five years until 1910 a member of the Düsseldorf city ​​council . Here he dealt in particular with traffic issues and the support of art.

With Heinrich Lueg , whose brother Carl Lueg had married his sister Mathilde Bagel (1842–1929), Franz Haniel junior and Friedrich Vohwinkel , he was one of the founders of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft AG . This was entered in the commercial register on March 25, 1896, and August Bagel had a share of just under a quarter of its initial capital of 6 million marks . Their primary goal was the construction of the Oberkassel Bridge for the traffic-related development of the industry to be settled in Oberkassel and Heerdt with the continuation of the tram to Krefeld in planning. Thus August Bagel was also a pioneer in the incorporation of Heerdt, Lörick , Niederkassel and Oberkassel into Düsseldorf in 1909 .

August Bagel was married to Auguste (1837-1918), born von Laer. She was an honorary member of the Richard Wagner Association of German Women Local Group Düsseldorf, which was founded in 1911 by Agnes Oehler, wife of Mayor Adalbert Oehler . The son Fritz Bagel (1872–1936) took over the publishing house and led the company through the tremors of the First World War and the post-war period. Under his aegis, authors of newer literary currents belonged, such as Adolf Uzarski (from 1919) and Carl Maria Weber .

August Bagel's grave is on the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf , field 62. A street in Wesel was named Bagelstraße after his family . In 1953 a street in Pempelfort was named after him.

Honor

literature

  • August Bagel (1838-1916). In: Our Century. Chronicle of a peninsula. Düsseldorf 1904-2004. Transport and beautification association for the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Düsseldorf e. V. (Ed.), Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-017-5 , p. 43, online (PDF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 150 years of the Steel Institute VDEh - a selection chronicle, 1881: Foundation of the journal Stahl und Eisen as a monthly magazine in the commission publishing house of the August Bagel printing company
  2. ^ Werner Bertelsmann: Bertelsmann . In: Bernhard Koerner (Hrsg.): Genealogical manual of bourgeois families (=  German gender book ). tape 13 . CA Starke, Görlitz 1907, p. 62 ( digitized online , p. 62 ).
  3. ↑ Chronicle Richard Wagner Verband Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rwvduesseldorf.de
  4. ^ Streets in Wesel - letter B
  5. ^ History workshop Düsseldorf: Bagelstrasse , accessed on July 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bagel, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1916
Place of death Dusseldorf