Bernhard Wieck

Bernhard Wieck (born May 8, 1845 in Schleswig , † August 26, 1913 in Berlin ) was a German engineer . From 1899 until his death, Wieck was the first head of the district and community in Grunewald .

Life

Wieck had studied engineering in Munich and Zurich in the 1860s and, after a few years in railway construction, was promoted to the management of the "Grundrentengesellschaft" and the "Baugesellschaft am kleine Tiergarten", two large Berlin terrestrial companies, in the 1880s. Wieck was one of the eight founders of the Corps Germania in Munich and joined the Landsmannschaft Teutonia (today Corps Friso-Cheruskia Karlsruhe ) in Zurich .

He lived in the immediate vicinity of the Mendelssohns as well as Friedrich Dernburgs - Wieck's son Otto would later marry his youngest daughter - the villa on the Herthastraße 4 property. Heinrich Seeling owned the country house, which is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the villa colony, in 1890/91 built in the center of the colony. Wieck's son Kurt received a. a. Violin lessons with Joseph Joachim , who frequented Bernhard Wiecks' house. Later, the son Kurt Wieck and his wife Hedwig Wieck-Hulisch founded the Königsberg string quartet, which was very famous at the time.

Wieck made a name for himself not only professionally, but also in representing the interests of the settlers as a skilled negotiator with the administrations. When the villa colony of Grunewald - at Wieck's instigation among others - was declared an independent rural community in the summer of 1899, the settlers elected him as their first honorary official and community leader. During the 14 years of his tenure, the primary school, the Grunewald-Gymnasium (today: Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium ) and the Grunewald Girls' School, renamed Bismarck-Lyceum in 1912 (today: Hildegard-Wegscheider-Gymnasium ), were established. The Grunewald Church was built, contracts for the power supply of the colony were concluded and new tram and bus routes were opened towards the city center.

Wieck's merits secured him the sympathy of his fellow citizens. The pastor's funeral speech concluded with the words: "When we now, deeply moved, bid farewell to the dear man, only feelings of gratitude can fill our hearts. The story of the last 21 years of his life, which he lived in our midst, is inextricably woven into the history of Grunewald. If you want to write this story, you have to write the name Wieck on every page. " (Quote from the Grunewaldecho from August 31, 1913)

Bernhard Wieck was buried in a wall grave reminiscent of the gable front of an ancient temple ( Grunewald cemetery , Dept. II, Erb. 58).

literature

• Hans Herpich: 100 years Corps Germania Munich 1863–1963. Ingolstadt 1963.

Web links

• Website with the life dates and resting places of well-known Berlin personalities