August Bahr

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Johann Friedrich August Bahr (born July 13, 1801 in Rotenkirchen am Solling ; † February 25, 1855 in Harburg , today Hamburg ) was Mayor of Harburg from 1835 until his death .

Life

August Bahr, son of bailiff Carl Friedrich Bahr in Dannenberg (Elbe) , completed his last school years at the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld . Subsequently, he studied from 1819 to 1821 law at the Georg-August University of Goettingen . After graduation, worked as an auditor and assessor candidate in Dannenberg and Bleckede . At the time of the administrative regulations of 1827, Bahr was Magistrate Assessor in Harburg. There he took over the office of mayor in 1835, which he held until his death (1855).

During his tenure, Bahr was particularly committed to promoting transport routes. King Ernst August I of Hanover approved the construction of the Hanover-Harburg railway in 1840 after Bahr had campaigned for this new traffic route. On March 6, 1847, the first locomotive drove through Harburg with two passenger cars.

Another goal Bahr pursued was the expansion of the Harburg port . In 1841 he presented the plans for the construction of a new port facility to the King of Hanover in a public audience. In 1843 the royal Hanoverian building officer and hydraulic engineering director Johann Heinrich Blohm (1799–1858) was commissioned to plan and build a new Harburg port facility. This new port could be used from 1849. As a result, the handling in the Harburg port was increased enormously: In 1847 63 seagoing vessels docked; At the end of Bahr's service life there were 1,032 ships that passed through the new box lock .

Bahr aimed to further promote the transport routes by setting up a steam ferry across the Süderelbe . It was put into operation in 1853 and only after the construction of the old Harburg Elbe Bridge in 1899 was this connection no longer used.

Harburg tumults in 1848, when the March Revolution was broadcast , caused Bahr and the Harburg magistrate to issue regulations for the Harburg Citizens Guard . Under Bahr, industrialization moved to the city of Harburg. Bahr's commitment to traffic routes was instrumental in this.

Bahr died of a heart attack in 1855 at the age of 53 . He was buried in the old Harburg cemetery . The grave site was cleared in the mid-1980s.

Honors

On the 100th anniversary of his death, Bahrstrasse was named after him.

literature

  • Max Truels: Written Harburgensien . Lühmanndruck, Hamburg-Harburg 1986, DNB 205984622 .
  • Erik Verg: Harburg history . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7672-0742-7 .
  • Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 42, Association for Hamburg History (ed.), Verlag Johann August Meissner, 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Royal Ilfeld Monastery School. Nordhausen 1873, p. 27 ( excerpt )
  2. ^ Annual report on the Royal Ilfeld Monastery School. Nordhausen 1873, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Harburg Yearbook. Volume 16, publications of the Helms Museum, Harburg 1986.
personal data
SURNAME Bahr, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahr, Johann Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Harburg, now part of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenkirchen am Solling
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1855
Place of death Harburg