Bernhard Caspar (banker)

Bernhard Caspar (born December 9, 1844 in Stavenhagen , † May 20, 1918 in Hanover ) was a German banker , secret councilor , consul general and business leader .

Life

family

Initials BC on shell limestone - relief with two naked boys in the style of putti with fruit at the Caspar bank

Bernhard Caspar was born as the son of the Jewish businessman Joseph Caspar and his wife Louise, b. Dessauer, born in the small Mecklenburg country town of Stavenhagen. Through the marriage of his son Julius (Swedish consul general and partner in the Caspar banking house founded by Bernhard) to Dorothea Bergmann , a daughter of Sigmund Bergmann , the US inventor and founder of the Bergmann electricity company in Berlin , he was related to him.

Career

Born at the time of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , after the proclamation of the German Empire in Hanover , Bernhard Caspar initially worked as an authorized signatory of the Provinzial-Disconto-Gesellschaft Hanover , a banking company that specialized in the establishment of companies and their headquarters during the so-called founding years was in Berlin. In 1874 Caspar founded his own bank, the Caspar Bank .

Bernhard Caspar was initially designated as a commercial councilor from 1881 , and then from 1889 as a secret commercial councilor for handling banking business for Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The banker was mainly involved in expanding companies, especially in trading and industrial companies and here during the rubber boom, especially in the rubber processing industry. In this way he soon achieved influence and prosperity and was able to afford a representative residence at what was then Parkstrasse 2 on Puttenser Feld (today's Wilhelm-Busch-Strasse on Welfengarten near the Welfenschloss ).

Bernhard Caspar helped found the "Association of Banks and Bankers" and the "Commercial Association", which moved into its own club premises on February 1, 1889 at Ständehausstrasse 1 and with which he ultimately promoted the establishment of the Hanover Stock Exchange .

Bernhard Caspar was a member of the supervisory board

from 1882 of Continental AG , where he became chairman of the supervisory board in 1897 ;
of the Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank since 1890 (Chairman of the Supervisory Board from 1913); the later Berlin Hyp
the Hannoversche Bank ;
of the Linden iron and steel works

and other companies.

In 1883 Caspar was appointed consul and later also consul general of the Kingdom of Sweden .

The Caspar Bank at Prinzenstrasse 23 , built by Emil Lorenz from 1911 to 1912 and now completely demolished , here in July 2014 with the logo of Niedersächsischer Städtetag

In 1890 Caspar ran his banking business initially at Packhofstrasse 26 , and according to the Hanover city's address book from 1899, at Bahnhofstrasse 11 . Later, according to plans by the architect Emil Lorenz, he built his own bank building from 1911 to 1912 at the (today's) address Prinzenstrasse 23 .

Quite a child of his time, Caspar worked in the German Colonial Association as well as in the German Fleet Association , in the “Provincial Association of the Red Cross ”, in the National Foundation for the survivors of those killed in the war and in other associations.

Together with his wife, Caspar established the Bernhard and Anna Caspar Foundation : The purpose of the foundation was "the annual financial support of non-profit or charitable institutions in the city of Hanover," which were expressly specified by name in the donation agreement of July 30, 1918.

Bernhard Caspars died in the last year of the First World War and the German Empire. His tomb based on a design by the sculptor Hermann Schaedtler can be found today in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse

Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse , which was laid out in 1919 and connects Badenstedter Strasse with Davenstedter Strasse in the (present-day) district of Linden-Mitte , was posthumously named after the banker and patron . At the time of National Socialism , the street out of anti-Semitism was renamed Meidtstraße from 1933 to 1945 after the police officer Walter Meidt , who was killed while protecting a National Socialist meeting.

literature

Peter Schulze : CASPAR, Bernhard. 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 , pp. 83f .; online through google books
Peter Schulze: Caspar, Bernhard. 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. 108f.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Caspar (banker) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Bernhard Caspar in the state bibliography MV

Alla sökträffar för Bernd Klaus Caspar on the Swedish language site ancestry.se

Press and public relations work of the state capital Hanover ( ViSdP ): The city and its foundations / Bernhard and Anna Caspar Foundation on the website hannover.de , last accessed on August 11, 2014

Bernhard and Anna Caspar Foundation on the Kulturfoerderung.org website of the German Information Center for Cultural Promotion

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Peter Schulze: CASPAR ... (see literature)
↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
^ Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem: Bergmann, Leonhard Sigmund Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 91 ( digitized version ).
↑ Carsten Burhop: Die Kreditbanken in the early days (= series of publications by the Institute for Bank History Research , Volume 21), also dissertation 2002 at the University of Bonn , Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004, ISBN 3-515-08413-4 , passim ; Preview over google books
↑ ^a ^b Conrad von Meding: Old houses in the city “Demolition has to stop” / Two historical buildings are being demolished again in the city of Hanover. In view of the destruction in the Second World War and the disappearance of many other old houses to this day, Hanover's Monument Foundation demands that this must finally come to an end in the city center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 2013, last accessed online on August 11, 2014
↑ ^a ^b Compare Alla sökträffar ... (see under the section Web Links )

↑ Helmut Zimmermann : On the Puttenser field. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 20

↑ Thomas Ledermann, Sandra Reich ( authorized representative): The history of the Hannover Stock Exchange on the boersenag.de page , last accessed on August 11, 2014

^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Landschaftstrasse. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 165

↑ Bernhard and Anna Caspar Foundation (see under the section Weblinks )

^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse . In: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 38

personal data
SURNAME	Caspar, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Banker and supervisory board chairman of large companies, founder of foundations
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stavenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1918
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Peter Schulze: CASPAR ... (see literature)

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

[3] Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem: Bergmann, Leonhard Sigmund Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 91 ( digitized version ).

[4] Carsten Burhop: Die Kreditbanken in the early days (= series of publications by the Institute for Bank History Research , Volume 21), also dissertation 2002 at the University of Bonn , Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004, ISBN 3-515-08413-4 , passim ; Preview over google books

[HAZ_16.9.13-5] Conrad von Meding: Old houses in the city “Demolition has to stop” / Two historical buildings are being demolished again in the city of Hanover. In view of the destruction in the Second World War and the disappearance of many other old houses to this day, Hanover's Monument Foundation demands that this must finally come to an end in the city center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 2013, last accessed online on August 11, 2014

[ancestry.se-6] Compare Alla sökträffar ... (see under the section Web Links )

[7] Helmut Zimmermann : On the Puttenser field. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 20

[8] Thomas Ledermann, Sandra Reich ( authorized representative): The history of the Hannover Stock Exchange on the boersenag.de page , last accessed on August 11, 2014

[9] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Landschaftstrasse. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 165

[10] Bernhard and Anna Caspar Foundation (see under the section Weblinks )

[11] Helmut Zimmermann : Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse . In: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 38