August Pape

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August Pape

Heinrich Eduard August Pape (born July 20, 1857 in Sarstedt ; † December 7, 1922 Lübeck ) was a manufacturer and member of the Lübeck citizenship .

Life

career

After long trips abroad, Pape came to Lübeck. Together with his friend Thies Miesner, he founded the emery factory "Miesner & Pape" on January 2nd, 1884 at Dornestrasse 48-58 . On June 13, 1894, Miesner was elected to the Chamber of Commerce and later also to the Chamber of Commerce. Miesner stayed with the company until his death in 1928, but dissolved his partnership there in 1902. Pape, who was now the sole owner of the factory, expanded the company in 1906 with a branch factory in Lüneburg . The company not only spread throughout Germany, but also had warehouses in all other parts of the world, just like in Europe .

Friedrich, his eldest son, managed the branch in Lüneburg. The Lübeck manufacturing company moved there in 1920.

Since the 1890s, Pape has been at the forefront of Lübeck's political and local political life. Almost at the same time as he settled in Lübeck, he joined the Liberal Party founded by Eugen Richter and soon became one of its leaders.

In the supplementary election to citizenship in III. Electoral district ( Marien Quartier and the suburb of St. Lorenz ) from June 20, 1893, Pape was set up for the first time but not yet elected.

In opposition to the provisions on the acquisition of civil rights, Pape founded the so-called civil rights association in 1884 . At the electoral meeting on June 25, 1895, he was elected as its chairman, set up by the "Association for the Promotion of the Acquisition of the Lübeck Citizenship". He held the office until the association, which later became superfluous, dissolved.

At the meeting of the merchants' association on July 16, 1897, Pape submitted the request for the establishment of a commission for the preliminary consultation of a reorganization of the merchant's and internal rules . It should consist of six members each from the Chamber of Commerce and six members of the business community. The application was accepted and Suckau , Emil Possehl , Thiel , Pape, Stiller and Mangels were elected as members of the commission.

Senate commissioners and spokesmen sat on the raised seats at the meetings

In the supplementary election in the second electoral district ( Marien-Magdalenen Quartiers and the northeastern suburb of St. Lorenz) on June 20, 1899, Pape was able to unite the most votes and was thus elected member of the citizenship.

The Free People's Party (FVp) nominated him for the first time in 1903 as a candidate for the Reichstag election . As in the subsequent Reichstag elections, Pape received a respectable number of votes. But this was never sufficient for entry into the Reichstag .

On the basis of the new electoral law passed on August 9, 1905 with the corresponding constitutional amendment, on November 14th in the country and on the 17th in the city the renewal of a third of the citizenship, with 40 new members to be elected, was carried out. In order to keep the number of citizenship members at 80 after those elected since 1899, the drawing of five members was necessary. In the new elections that have now taken place, Pape was re-elected.

The Chamber of Commerce proposed the establishment of a joint commission of merchants and the Chamber of Commerce for the new buildings on the quay . It should be made up of members of the Chamber and the merchants in equal parts. At the meeting of the merchants' union on June 23, 1904, the proposal was accepted and among other members Pape, Ernst Stiller and Dimpker were elected to the commission.

On October 8, 1904, the Senate elected Pape as a bourgeois deputy in the head of the city's general hospital as the successor to H. Chr. Th. Erasmi, who was leaving office .

The Democratic Party grew out of the FVp in 1918 . Pape belonged to her until 1920 and was elected for her in the last election. In 1920 he resigned and founded the "Bürgerbund" with like- minded people . Regardless of himself or anyone else, Pape was a sharp, at times sarcastic , but matter-of-fact debater . He always tried hard to defend the people's rights , which he considered important . However, he did this mostly from within the opposition . Because of his predominantly objective attacks, he incurred many counterattacks. However, this knew how to parry them . At the turn of the century it was a not to be overlooked phenomenon in the public life of the city. He was a member of the citizens' committee , as well as many committees and authorities .

Except for the last Pape never got a citizenship session failed. Plagued by a serious lung ailment for months, he attended the penultimate meeting as a man marked by his illness. Nevertheless he was still active as a speaker there.

Pape was on December 11 in lübeckischen crematorium on the Vorwerker Cemetery cremated . His sons continued the company after his death.

family

Pape had married Ida, born Fricke. The marriage had four children. When he died he already had five grandchildren.

Web links

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until 1928, the year in which Miesner died, Dornestrasse 48-58 was the Lübeck company premises of "Miesner & Pape", today it is a storage area of ​​the Drägerwerke .
  2. ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter . 35th vol., Number 50, 22nd June 1893, p. 291.
  3. ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 37, number 51, June 26, 1895, pp. 343-344.
  4. ↑ The Lübeck Chamber of Commerce was entrusted with the tasks of an economic authority as the board of the merchants.
  5. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 39, No. 29, Edition of July 18, 1897, p. 358.
  6. ↑ This year's citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 41, number 27, July 2, 1899, p. 330.
  7. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 45, number 16, April 19, 1903, p. 220.
  8. ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  9. ^ Citizenship replacement election. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1905, No. 47, November 19, 1905, pp. 193–194.
  10. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 46, number 26, June 26, 1904, p. 395.
  11. ↑ The former General Hospital is now the Sana Clinic .
  12. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 46, number 42, October 16, 1904, p. 587.
personal data
SURNAME Pape, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pape, Heinrich Eduard August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, manufacturer and member of the citizenry
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarstedt
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1922
Place of death Lübeck