Carl Andreas Julius Bolle
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Carl Andreas Julius Bolle (born September 1, 1832 in Milow ; † September 28, 1910 in Berlin ) was the founder and owner of the traditional C. Bolle dairy . His nickname "Bimmel-Bolle" came about because of the milk vendors tinkling with handbells on his famous Bolle milk cart .
Life
Bolle was born as the sixth child of the wood and stone merchant Andreas Bolle and his second wife. When he was four and a half years old, his father drowned in the Havel. His mother died a short time later. As a child he made some money working in his uncle's inn at the bowling alley. In the Milow village school, 140 children were taught in a single class. After the village school, he first attended secondary school, then the grammar school in Brandenburg an der Havel , which he left early after the 6th grade. Then he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Meister Wede in Rathenow at the behest of his brother Andreas Ferdinand, who was almost 15 years older than him . As a journeyman bricklayer, he went to the up-and-coming Berlin after the German Revolution in 1848 .
In 1851, at the age of 19, he went on a journey against the will of his guardian - from Berlin via Saxony and Bohemia to Vienna, from there over the Danube to Budapest, where he found work, but soon fell seriously ill, so that he returned home early had to and had his sisters in Rathenow nurse him back to health. During this time the new Esche couple took care of themselves in Milow Bolles and made a change in his life. Pastor Esche later wrote about it: “He now began to read the long neglected Holy Scriptures and accompanying books on edification, then to attend church services diligently and to discuss the sermons he had heard. The Lord had visibly started his work with him. ”Through Esche's mediation, Bolle visited the Berlin mission house for two years with the aim of becoming a missionary in South Africa, but apparently experienced humiliation there that ultimately led him to drop out of his training. In the following years he worked again as a bricklayer and took private lessons in mathematics and Latin, but finally failed to achieve the Abitur. Instead, he successfully passed his master mason examination in Eberswalde .
In the autumn of 1860 he married Sophie Maltner (1836–1895) in Berlin and founded a construction business. With inherited and borrowed money, Bolle bought some plots of land near today's Lützowplatz on the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, which was rapidly growing at the time, and then built it with urgently needed apartment buildings. His working day usually started at 3 a.m. and ended at 8 p.m. in the evening. Because he paid off debts as soon as possible for reasons of faith, he won the trust of the banks.
By 1870 he had made enough wealth to found the company Norddeutsche Eiswerke AG in the founding years (1871–1873) , which among other things had the ice cream factory built in Berlin-Mitte . To do this, he fetched natural ice from the Landwehr Canal and later from the Rummelsburg Bay to sell it to households and companies (including his own) that are increasingly asking for cooling material. When his house bank collapsed, he lost his entire fortune, around two million marks, and had to start over. At the suggestion of the liberal MP Georg von Bunsen , he decided to set up the first sea fish trade inland. He founded Bolles Seefisch-Handelsgesellschaft, Bolles Nurseries, Bolles Fruit Plantations and Bolles Canning Factory.
The 30 cows that he kept on his property at Lützowufer 31 to produce fertilizer for his tree nursery in the late 1870s were also used for milk production in Bolles Milchausschank (also known as "Kuhdestille" or "Babythek") from 1879 onwards. After Bolle had acquired centrifuges, vending carts and handbells, in 1881 he started his new company, Provincial-Meierei C. Bolle , to sell milk in milk carts in the city. He obtained the larger quantities of milk needed for this from farmers within a radius of 200 kilometers, whereby he was able to determine the prices himself by lending to the farmers. The three “Bolle wagons” at the beginning turned into 56 milk wagons in the following year and finally 250 by 1910. These were driven by the “Bolle boys” who worked up to ten hours a day and six days a week.
The phrase “prices like Bolle” is likely to have its origin here. The expression "like Bolle uff'm milk cart amusement" is based on the Berlin song Bolle recently traveled to Whitsun with the refrain: "But Bolle janz had a great time". The imprint of the Bolle song in the Richters Berliner is commented on as follows: "Through this old song of anonymous origin (and doubtful authenticity of the dialect), the real Berlin name Bolle became indicative of the amusing man from the people." That the well-known Berliner Milch- Wholesaler was also called Bolle, which is probably a coincidence, as the song was already popular before the "Bolle-Wagen" appeared in the streets from 1881.
Bolle financed three pastors and three deaconesses for his 2000 employees in order to enable pastoral care and welfare. He supported the mission work in East Africa . A mission station he maintained should bear his name, but he insisted that it be named after his hometown Milow (today Milo near Lake Malawi in Tanzania ).
Bolle lived at Lützowufer 31 until 1887 and then moved into a villa on the Alt-Moabit 98-103 property acquired because of the good business going on . Today the new buildings of a commercial center and the Federal Ministry of the Interior are on the site of his former dairy .
Bolle made his villa in Milow an der Havel available to his employees for recreation during his lifetime. Today the Carl Bolle Youth Hostel is located there.
Carl Bolle died on September 28, 1910 at the age of 78 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave site, dedicated as an honorary grave for the State of Berlin , is located on the south wall in field P-SE-012.
progeny
Carl Bolles sons, Andreas and Johannes Bolle, took over the Berlin funeral home Grieneisen (today Ahorn AG ) in 1902 . In 2000 Grieneisen therefore also sponsored the Carl Bolle family mausoleum. In 2015 the non-profit association EFEU e. V. restored the window and door frames and restored the original color scheme with the approval of the State Monuments Office.
His grandson of the same name Carl Bolle was in the First World War a successful fighter pilot, Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite and last leader of the hunting season Boelcke . He died in 1955.
Honors
In 1909 Carl Bolle was awarded the title of Privy Councilor for Commerce “for his great merits” . He gratefully refused to allow himself to be ennobled as “von Bolle”. In 1991 Bolle was given a grave of honor in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin.
On September 28, 2015 , a Berlin memorial plaque was unveiled in Berlin-Moabit , Alt-Moabit 98 .
Others
- The Carl Bolle School in Berlin-Tiergarten is named after him. It was modernized and rebuilt in the years up to 2008 by the Berlin architects “Die Baupiloten”.
- The supermarket chain Bolle emerged from the dairy.
literature
- Frank Pauli: Bimmel-Bolle. A Christian entrepreneur in Berlin (1832–1910). Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88981-120-5 .
- Eberhard Schmieder: Carl Bolle. In: Tradition, journal for company history and entrepreneur biography , 5th year 1960, issue 2, pp. 49–64.
- Helmut Engel , Volker Koop: The Spree Arch. Carl Bolle and his legacy. Brandenburgisches Verlags-Haus, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89488-088-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Andreas Julius Bolle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bolle, Carl Andreas Julius. in the Bezirks-Lexikon Berlin-Mitte, last accessed on May 7, 2015
- Aro Kuhrt: "Bolle offers the best". (2008) at www.berlinstreet.de , last accessed on May 7, 2015
- EFEU eV- Bolle special page Friends of the Old St. Matthew Cemetery
Individual evidence
- ↑ A share of the Norddeutsche Eiswerke from 1933 at "effectenwelt", accessed on March 13, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ahorn-Grieneisen: History of the company, PDF document ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carl Bolle School
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolle, Carl Andreas Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bimmelbolle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dairy owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milow near Rathenow |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1910 |
| Place of death | Berlin |