August Bode (engineer)

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August Bode , called Aute Bode (born April 7, 1846 in Hanover ; † May 20, 1921 there ) was a German engineer and building contractor. He was the first chairman of the Weinheimer Association of Old Corps Students, which was founded on his initiative.

Life

Bode attended the Realgymnasium Hannover . After graduating from high school, he began to study engineering at the Polytechnic School in Hanover in the summer semester of 1864 . He became active in the Corps Saxonia Hannover and proved himself three times as a second and six times as a first charge. He developed into one of the leading personalities not only in his corps, but also in the entire student body. Thus, against the will of the board of directors, he succeeded in having Wilhelm I receive a delegation of students on the occasion of his visit to Hanover in 1868 . He completed his studies in 1872 after doing a one-year industrial internship in a machine factory in Schladen , 1867 to 1868 for military service as a one-year volunteer with a Hanoverian infantry regiment and for participation in the Franco-German War , most recently as an officer, interrupted.

After working for various construction companies, Aute Bode founded his own company for road and railroad construction . His construction projects included the Harzquerbahn and the Brockenbahn . Around 1900 he gave up his company and moved back to his hometown. There he worked as an expert for civil engineering and as a senior engineer for the civil engineering trade association of the Hanover district. At the age of over 70, he took part in the First World War as a captain and commander of a Landwehr battalion in Russia . In 1921 he died in the Heidehaus sanatorium of the late effects of a lung disease that he had contracted during the war. Originally buried in the Engesohder cemetery in Hanover, the Weinheim Association of Old Corps Students arranged for his ashes to be transferred to Weinheim and buried in the Wachenburg's hall of honor .

Weinheim Association of Old Corps Students

In the early years after the founding of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convent (WSC), there was no organized form of the union of the old gentlemen Weinheimer Corps. After completing his studies as an old corps student, Bode was particularly committed to strengthening the cohesion of the old men in his corps, at the local level and in the association, as well as for more advice and support for the active corps. He took an active part in what was happening at the WSC since the suburb began regularly inviting the old men to its meetings from 1877. In 1891 he became the first chairman of the newly founded Weinheimer Alte Herren Vereinigung (WAHV) Barmen-Elberfeld. In 1901 he initiated the formation of the AH-Vereinigung des Corps Saxonia Hannover. On April 26, 1903, 40 years after the founding of the WSC, the Weinheimer AH-Verband was founded at his instigation in Hanover and met for the first time on May 19, 1904 in Weinheim. Bode was elected first chairman. A special concern of his was the erection of a WSC memorial for those killed in the Franco-German War and a festival area for the annual conference. For this purpose, in November 1903, at his instigation, the Hanover Board of Directors of the newly founded AH Association undertook the preparatory work for the creation of the fairground. His life's work as a student in the corps was crowned with the construction of the Wachenburg between 1907 and 1913. In 1919, Bode was still on the Weinheim side of the negotiating committee for the establishment of a General German SC Association with the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . This contract between the Kösener and Weinheimer Corps was concluded at Whitsun 1921, a few days before Bode's death.

Awards

literature

  • Hans Schüler: Weinheimer SC-Chronik, relationship between WSC and WAHV (p. 32–36), Darmstadt 1927 (with picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia from 50th to 100th. Years of existence . Alois Wolpers printer, Hanover 1955, p. 126 .
  2. ↑ Bust of Bode on the Wachenburg
personal data
SURNAME Bode, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bode, Aute (common name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1921
Place of death Hanover