Bernhard Engelke (local history researcher)

Bernhard Engelke (born September 8, 1872 in Diepholz ; † December 7, 1958 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , numismatist , senator and author . However, he gained greater fame as a local researcher .

Live and act

Born in Diepholz shortly after the proclamation of the German Empire , Bernhard Engelke attended grammar school in Oldenburg from 1886 to 1893 and then studied law at the University of Jena , the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen from 1893 until his doctorate in 1899 .

On November 20, 1903, Engelke first entered the service of the city of Linden as a "legal assistant" , which had become independent almost two decades earlier (1885) and from the previously "most beautiful village in the Kingdom of Hanover " via the title of "largest village in the kingdom." Prussia ”had long since risen to become an industrial city .

Less than two years after Engelke took up his post, he was elected Legal Senator Lindens on February 11, 1905, and in this position was responsible for taxation , among other things . In addition, in May 1909, he became deputy chairman of the Linden City Building Police Office .

After the First World War , when Linden at the time of the Weimar Republic on January 1, 1920 in the city of Hanover incorporated was, you took Engelke in Hanover Magistrate . Here he was initially responsible for the "garden management", the city cemeteries, the museum and library system , the city hospitals and health care . After the peak of German hyperinflation , Engelke was also responsible for municipal welfare .

During the term of office of Bernhard Engelke, whose area of ​​responsibility was also the municipal library system, the building of the tower of the Hanover City Library fell in 1931 .

At the time of National Socialism , Bernhard Engelke was retired on April 1, 1935 .

Fonts (selection)

• Linden village chronicle. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Series 10, 1910, pp. 81–162, (special print. Ernst Geibel, Hanover 1910, excerpt on the subject of the village of Linden up to the year 1600. pp. 2–5 on the website Lebensraum-linden.de , last accessed on 9. November 2014).
• Coin history of the city of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Episode 18, 1915, pp. 1-219, pp. 422-456.
• The Marstemgau. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Episode 31, 1928, pp. 247-281.

Engelke also wrote numerous articles in various series, such as the Lower Saxony Yearbook for Regional History , Blätter für Münzfreunde and other series of works.

Literature (selection)

• Friedrich Busch : Obituary . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , ed. from the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 31 (1959), pp. 378f.
• Carmen Finkenstädt, Udo Göken (Red.): Between Dümmer and Eschbach. Local history contributions from the old district of Grafschaft Diepholz , ed. from Kreissparkasse Grafschaft Diepholz on the occasion of its 125th anniversary, 1st edition, [Diepholz]: Kreissparkasse Grafschaft Diepholz, 1990, ISBN 3-09-303982-7 , p. 114
• Klaus Mlynek : Engelke, (1) Bernhard. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlueter, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 109.
• Klaus Mlynek: Engelke, (1) 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 , pp. 160f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Klaus Mlynek: Engelke, (1) Bernhard. In: Dirk Böttcher ao: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. 2002, p. 109.
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library .
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Engelke, (1) Bernhard. In: Klaus Mlynek et al. (Ed.) Et al.: Stadtlexikon Hannover. 2009, p. 160 f.
4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. 2009, p. 406 ff.
5. ↑ Compare, for example, the listing in the database of the Academy of Sciences and the literature .