August Emil Theodor Haase
August Emil Theodor Haase (born March 20, 1867 in Bergen on Rügen ; † July 19, 1934 in Hamburg ; mostly only AE Th. Haase ) was a Hamburg restaurateur and city original .
In 1894 Haase opened a restaurant at Erichstrasse 34 (renumbered in 1899 to No. 46) in St. Pauli , which he named Museum for Colony and Homeland . He claimed to be a former captain and decorated the interior of his museum accordingly with a multitude of exotic objects and curiosities that he presented as souvenirs from his travels around the world. In the course of the following decades, he added more and more exhibits to this collection that he received from guests or that were sent to him.
Haase quickly became a popular, well-known figure and institution on St. Pauli. He called himself Professor of Undiscovered Science and used to present his museum exhibits to his guests - he called the male Heinrich indiscriminately, the female all Mariechen - with originally told, absurd stories and sailor's thread . The objects that he exhibited in his restaurant included, for example, the stick with which Tsar Nicholas II put down the revolution , and a chain made up of a total of 22 engagement rings from Adam and Eve . In addition to these humorous explanations, Haase came up with some very imaginative stories about his time at sea.
After Haase's death in 1934, his museum was closed; A large part of the exhibits went to the restaurateur Paul Wetzel, who equipped a restaurant in Reeperbahn 36-37 in 1935 , which in the following time used the fame of the deceased with different names such as Captain Haase's Museum and Käppen Haase . In 1954 this inventory passed into the possession of Harry Rosenberg , who made the collection the basis of Harry's Hamburg harbor bazaar .
literature
- Carl Thinius : Back then in St. Pauli - pleasure and joy in the suburbs . Hans Christians publishing house, Hamburg 1975
- Egon Erwin Kisch : An evening in St. Pauli - III. Exotic Museum in the Kaschemme (1930), in: My life for the newspaper 1926–1947 - Journalistic texts 2 (p. 262 f.). Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar, 1983. - The corresponding place as a digitized version in the Internet Archive
- Wolfgang Franke : Under the spell of China - autobiography of a sinologist 1950–1998 . Projektverlag, Bochum 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the death certificate, retrieved from ancestry.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haase, August Emil Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haase, AE Th .; Haase, Käppn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German restaurateur and collector of curiosities |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains on Rügen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1934 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |