Bruno Wunderlich

Arthur Bruno Wunderlich (born March 30, 1848 in Reichenbach in Vogtland , † January 3, 1909 in Loschwitz ) was a German merchant and manor owner and royal Swedish and imperial Persian consul general .

Life

Wunderlich's father was Friedrich August Wunderlich, Depositen - and Sportel - Rendant at the Reichenbach court office . Bruno Wunderlich attended the community and secondary school in Reichenbach. As a businessman, he traveled to France and Russia.

Bruno Wunderlich was chairman of the dyers and Appreturanstalten Georg Schleber AG and operating in Moscow, the trading company Bruno Wunderlich & Co. The latter was one of the leading American in Russia trade cotton products, partly because the usual chain of three or four middlemen with markups of 20 to 35 Percent compared to European goods was avoided. The company had a history of more than 40 years around 1910 and was able to sell high-quality American imports directly to consumers in Russia (including Siberia ).

Lingnerschloss , Eckberg Castle , Mordgrund and Dinglingers Weinberg seen from the opposite bank of the Elbe

His wealth allowed him in 1883, which on the eastern outskirts of Dresden in emerging Villenvort Loschwitz standing Schloss Eckberg purchase. It served as his residence and was also the address of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Empire of Persia responsible for the Kingdom of Saxony . Around that time he also acquired the neighboring vineyard . In 1898 he also bought the manor in Plohn in the Vogtland region for 280,000 marks .

Bruno Wunderlich was married to Anna Constantia, b. Dummy plow. The couple had a daughter and three sons. Wunderlich died in 1909 at the age of 60. His widow moved to the neighboring Dinglinger vineyard to the east and rented Eckberg Castle, while the eldest son Gottfried Wunderlich lived in the Plohn manor, which he had already managed, until the expropriation in 1945. In the collection of the German Hygiene Museum of Dresden , a 1916 addressed to Oskar Lingner condolence from is wife Wunderlich Eckberg on the death of Karl August Lingner , of the westernmost of Schloss Eckberg Lingnerschloss inhabited.

Honor

The then independent community of Loschwitz named the upper part of the Mordgrundweg and Heilstättenweg as Wunderlichstraße in 1886 after its benefactor August Bruno Wunderlich . It is part of an old path that leads in Mordgrund between his holdings of Schloss Eckberg and Dinglingers Weinberg along the Mordgrundbach stream from Bautzner Landstrasse to Körnerweg on the banks of the Elbe.

Footnotes

1. ^ Statistical Bureau in the Ministry of the Interior (ed.): State manual for the Kingdom of Saxony. 1865/66 . C. Heinrich, Dresden, p. 181 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Werner Roth: Chronicle of the Plohn manor, lower part and upper part. In: Hereditary burials in Vogtland on their own land - an inventory. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
3. ^ Samuel Smith: Moscow . In: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Statistics (Ed.): Marketing Goods in Foreign Countries (=  Special Consular Reports . Vol. XXXIV). Government Printing Office, Washington 1905, pp. 109 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
4. ^ Railway Age Gazette , Volume 48, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1910, p. 1284 ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dresden: New tours through history (=  igeltour Dresden ). Sutton Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-782-2 , pp. 133 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
6. ^ Journal of historical weapons technology . Association for historical armaments, 1899, p. 264 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ Ms. Wunderlich-Eckberg allows herself… German Hygiene Museum , accessed on May 10, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Wolfgang W: Wunderlichstrasse. In: Stadtwiki Dresden . Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 

Web links

• Chronicle of the Plohn Manor, lower part and upper part with Wunderlich's life data