Bernard Rawe

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Bernard Rawe , often incorrectly spelled Bernhard Rawe , (born October 27, 1864 in Münster , † February 15, 1950 in Nordhorn ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur in the textile industry . The B. Rawe & Co. group was Nordhorn's third largest textile company, before production was discontinued in 2001 after bankruptcy and the company was liquidated .

life and work

Rawe was the second son of the Münster merchant Friedrich Wilhelm Rawe and his wife Mathilde Rawe nee. Heitmann. His older brother was called Wilhelm. After completing his school education, first in the Realgymnasium Münster and then in the Realgymnasium Osnabrück, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in the textile retail business of the von Brenken family in Lingen (Ems) from 1880 . He then worked in commercial positions in Cologne and in spinning mills in Great Britain , at the textile retail company Cords in Berlin and, from 1885, as an authorized signatory in the textile wholesaling of his uncle Heinrich Schnieder in Elberfeld .

In 1886 Rawe met Ella Kistemaker (born December 18, 1867) in the dance school; the Münster branches of the Rawe and Kistemaker families were already friends. In 1888 Rawe moved to Nordhorn and, with the financial support of his uncle Heinrich Schnieder, bought a partner in the mechanical spinning mill Kistemaker , which had been founded by his girlfriend's father, the factory owner Hermann Kistemaker (1826–1875), and his brother, who had died at an early age. The cotton mill employed 50 people who worked on 3,000 spindles and was now called Kistemaker & Rawe . Since the small business proved to be unable to expand, Rawe built a new spinning mill on Hangkamp from 1889, which initially comprised 8,000 spindles and employed 80 workers. The old factory was shut down and the buildings converted into workers' apartments.

On June 10, 1890, Bernard Rawe and Ella Kistemaker married. The couple moved in with their widowed mother, Berta Mulert, and their older brother Ella Kistemakers, who was also called Herrmann, in their parents' property, Haus Maate in Nordhorn.

In the same year Rawe founded the company Kistemaker, Rawe & Schlieper with this brother-in-law and son of the same name of his late father-in-law Hermann Kistemaker and his friend Kurt Schlieper (1868–1953) from Elberfeld , which operated the new spinning mill on Hangkamp. In 1896 he set up the first raw nettle weaving mill in Nordhorn, for the purpose of which he founded B. Rawe & Co. , and as the first German textile entrepreneur he was also involved in the fields of spinning and weaving and introduced this type of production in Nordhorn, known as the most suitable type of production should prevail in the west Munsterland cotton industry. For this purpose he founded the cotton spinning mill Bussmaate GmbH in 1911 together with Willem van Delden, who was born in Nordhorn, in Gronau and his son-in-law Engelbert Stroink .

Around 1901 the Rawe couple took in the seven-year-old Else Kistemaker (born August 13, 1896 in Lingen; † April 2, 1939 in Osnabrück) as a foster child and later adopted her after her biological father, the lawyer Paul Kistemaker (a cousin of Ella Rawe ) died after a serious illness in 1903 and her mother Mimi Kistemaker b. Lameyer from Vechta also fell ill and died a few years later. Ella Kistemaker married August Crone-Münzebrock, who later became a member of the Reichstag , in 1917 .

In 1914 Bernard Rawe was called up for military service, served as Rittmeister and was promoted to major towards the end of the war . On the return trip he fell ill and had to be treated for a long time in the Bonn hospital.

From 1917 the family had a second home in Berlin. The women usually stayed in Nordhorn in summer and in Berlin in winter, while Bernard Rawe traveled back and forth depending on the professional requirements.

From 1933, Bernard Rawe was only formally head of the company due to age and illness; 1938 took over Rudolf Beckmann as a new major shareholder and the management .

On October 27, 1949, a few months before his death, Bernard Rawe was made an honorary citizen of the city of Nordhorn.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gerhard Plasger: Rawe, Bernard (textile manufacturer).
  2. ↑ Stephanie Kohsiek: Bussmaate. A building complex belonging to the Rawe & Co.
personal data
SURNAME Rawe, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rawe, Bernhard (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile merchant and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1950
Place of death Nordhorn