August Werner (manufacturer)

August Werner (born September 28, 1845 in Hanover ; † March 13, 1916 in Hanover) was a German merchant and manufacturer in the bed feathers and down factory Werner & Ehlers (at the location of today's FAUST culture center ), Privy Councilor of Commerce , patron , President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Senator .

Life

family

August Werner was the nephew of the businessman and company founder Wilhelm Theodor Werner (born August 4, 1835 in Hanover; † July 21, 1876 in Hildesheim ) and the father of August Werner jr. (* May 22, 1879 in Hanover; † December 16, 1932 in Nienburg ). The latter was the uncle of Werner Frucht (born August 21, 1908 in Hanover; † February 15, 1985 there).

Career

Bird's eye view of the 1890s on the Bettfedernfabrik Werner & Ehlers (now FIST ) in Linden
engraving of a letter head of the company

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , August Werner completed a commercial apprenticeship and after the proclamation of the German Empire and the subsequent founding period in 1875, he took over the bed spring factory founded by his uncle, which he expanded into one of the largest companies in this sector in what was then Germany.

In addition to managing and expanding his factory in Linden , August Werner was heavily involved in professional and political honorary posts . In 1896 he was elected Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce in Hanover, then headed it as President from 1900 and was made Honorary President of the Chamber of Commerce in 1913.

Ten years earlier, Werner had been elected Senator to the Magistrate of Hanover in 1903 as a representative of the bourgeois camp . In 1904 he was given the title of Commerce Council, in 1913 that of the Secret Commerce Council.

At the beginning of the 20th century, August Werner made gifts to both cities in his field of activity:

He gave the city of Linden "the building for a youth home on the Lindener Berg ".

He gave the city of Hanover
- Together with Kommerzienrat Siegmund Seligmann , the imperial statues : The two more than three meters high bronze statues of Emperor Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II were created by the Berlin sculptor and professor Adolf Brütt . They were set up in the New Town Hall of Hanover to the side of the large staircase in the central hall. Both statues were later melted down for arms production in World War II .

August Werner died in 1916 at the age of 72 at the time of the First World War . His tomb with an angel - Mosaic artist Hermann Schaper can still be found on the city cemetery Engesohde .

literature

The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover, 1954 , Hanover 1954: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, p. 146f.
Werner & Ehlers. Entrepreneurs in four generations , 1961
Albert Lefèvre: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. [1866 - 1966.] Order and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, 1966, p. 273
Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress ; in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 24 (1970), pp. 63–72
Holger Horstmann, Wulf Kunisch, Karljosef Kreter : Werner & Ehlers. Photo history of a factory , booklet accompanying the exhibition, Hanover 1994
Waldemar R. Röhrbein : WERNER, (1) August. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 385.
Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner, (1) August. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 672.

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner, (1) ... (see literature)
^ ^A ^b ^c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner & Ehlers, bed feather and down factory. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 673
↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
↑ The city of Linden only merged with the city of Hanover in 1920, compare Klaus Mlynek : Incorporation. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153
↑ Petra Spona: "The equipment of a town hall is an area in which the public spirit of the citizenry can be active". In: Cornelia Regin (Ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover , in the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14, Hanover: Hahn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 227–248, here: pp. 229f ., 238f.
↑ Note: Deviating from this, in the article on August Werner in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon and in the City Lexicon Hanover (see section Literature ), the bed spring manufacturer is named as the sole donor.

personal data
SURNAME	Werner, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German merchant, factory owner, secret councilor, patron, president of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1916
Place of death	Hanover

[SLH-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner, (1) ... (see literature)

[SLH_Werner_&_Ehlers-2] A ^b ^c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner & Ehlers, bed feather and down factory. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 673

[3] Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library

[4] The city of Linden only merged with the city of Hanover in 1920, compare Klaus Mlynek : Incorporation. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153

[5] Petra Spona: "The equipment of a town hall is an area in which the public spirit of the citizenry can be active". In: Cornelia Regin (Ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover , in the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14, Hanover: Hahn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 227–248, here: pp. 229f ., 238f.

[6] Note: Deviating from this, in the article on August Werner in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon and in the City Lexicon Hanover (see section Literature ), the bed spring manufacturer is named as the sole donor.