Carl Dimpker

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Carl Dimpker after the election as spokesman for the citizenship (1909)

Carl Friedrich Robert Dimpker (born November 20, 1856 in Lübeck ; † October 12, 1923 there ) was a German businessman and politician.

Life

origin

Carl was born as the son of the businessman Heinrich Friedrich Constant Dimpker († July 23, 1899), owner of a Viktualienhandlung with commission and forwarding business in Fünfhausen 12 and an apartment in Tischler Gang .

career

After Dimpker founded the v. Having attended Großheim's secondary school, he started as an apprentice at the Finnish company Buck & Willmann in his hometown. Subsequently, he fulfilled his military duty as a one-year volunteer with the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 in Berlin .

Dimpker then worked in large commercial companies in Hamburg and Helsingfors (Helsinki). When he realized that the trade with Finland for the German merchant enormous potential of expansion offered, he opened there in 1879 a private house under the company "Carl Dimpker". Like his father, he operated commission and freight forwarding. In addition, he was later to be active in import , export and trading in agricultural machinery.

Breite Strasse 12

Ten years later, Dimpker returned to Germany and together with his friend Joh. Christian Sommer, also from Lübeck, established the Finnish company "Dimpker & Sommer". In the year of his father's death, who had meanwhile been a rentier , the company was relocated to Lübeck in the large Stiehlsche house in the Breite Straße , keeping the Hamburg house as a branch . Soon the business connections expanded here and the leadership qualities of Dimpker were recognized in large circles in Lübeck .

As a Freemason , Dimpker belonged to the “Zum Füllhorn” lodge . She called him several times to be her presiding master . As such, he was entrusted with running the business for six years.

Outside of Lübeck was Dimpker board member of the German Industry and Commerce , the Royal Institute of Shipping and the global economy at the University in Kiel , the Colonial Economic Committee and the Hansabund Commercial, Trade and Industry in Berlin , and the German nautical club in Hamburg.

At the head of the Nautical Association he was still in charge of the German Maritime Day on October 11, 1923. After four years in the presidential office, he arranged for a successor to be elected for himself, but was re-elected to the board, contrary to his expressed wish. He was also at the subsequent get-together in the Woermannhaus .

Lubeca

The tobacco industry had once settled in the city before industrialization , because it used the locational advantages of the seaport economy for itself based on the trade or produced for the high needs of wealthy consumers . So the future of the tobacco trade looked promising. The trading house Dimpker & Sommer was thus expanded to include the "Lubeca" branch in early 1903 . The city's first cigarette factory , however, did not have a new, spacious factory building , but was set up in empty rooms in the rear of the house and in an extension on Breite Straße. Barely a year later, the consul led the Lübeck industrial company through the factory. At that time, it was not only delivering to all parts of Germany, but was also exporting the cigarettes abroad.

The factory was located in the elongated wing , which was extended by an annex , the older parts of which once contained the splendid and living quarters of the merchant family. On the first floor there was the room for sorting what girls or young women wrapped in clean white coats did, and for moistening the leaves of Turkish tobacco, and the tobacco cutting machines. In the hall with the cutting machines, the warehouse was also divided into their types of cut tobacco. A stone spiral staircase led to the warehouse floors facing the fishing pit . On three different levels of tobacco-level and lay the whole camp because the tobacco duty unpaid , was bonded.

At the back a path led into the hall in which the Calberla BB cigarette machine was set up. This could produce up to 23,000 cigarettes per hour. It was operated electrically by a large motor located in the basement.

A spiral staircase led from this room to the “packing room”. Here at long tables, women also dressed in white put their cigarettes in packs. These packs were put together to form packages and handed over to the warehouse , where they were dried.

The finished goods were in large quantities in the warehouse and mailroom . The packs had names such as “ Wullenwever ”, “ Pleskow ”, “ Attendorn ”, “ Warendorp ”, “ Brömbse ” or “ Roeck ”. The symbol of the factory, a fiery Spanish veil dancer, adorned each package.

  • patio

  • Storage and sorting room

  • Tobacco cutting machines

  • Working room with Calberla

  • Drying room

But the Calberla BB , the mechanical marvel, did not work smoothly enough. Defective goods had to be sorted out and back in the Enthülsungsmaschine processed are. The production process was based more on craftsmanship than on technically modern machine work and had no lasting success in Lübeck.

Most of Lübeck's traditional branches of production gradually became insignificant until the First World War, as they lacked the strength to develop further . Despite the initially considerable success, cigarette production required more than the secondary use of a merchant's house. The Lubeca was closed again after a few years.

Merchants

Dimpker was elected a member of the Lübeck merchants' association as early as 1893 . At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce forming the board of the merchants' union on June 19, 1894, possible candidates for the election of the successors of the three departing members were drawn up. It was set up with others to replace Hermann Wilhelm Fehling . When he was elected as a member of the Chamber of Commerce on June 2, 1896 with others to replace the duly departed HA Rose, he was elected on June 17, 1896.

At their meeting on December 30, 1902, it was decided to set up a commission to promote the reform of the quality writing system. It should consist of six members, three each from the Chamber of Commerce and three from the merchants. Dimpker had been chosen as one of the three gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber of Commerce proposed the establishment of a joint commission of merchants and the Chamber of Commerce for the new buildings on the quay . It should be made up of members of the Chamber and the merchants in equal parts. At the meeting of the merchants' union on June 23, 1904, the proposal was accepted and among other members Pape , James Bertling Jr., Carl Samuel Wilhelm Lüth, Consul John Suckau , bank director Ernst Stiller and Dimpker were elected to the commission.

At his first meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in 1907, Dimpker was elected first deputy to the President . In place of the deceased President of the Chamber, Hermann Wilhelm Fehling, the assembly of the merchants elected him at its meeting on Friday, January 3rd with 122 out of 141 votes. In connection with this work he worked in the district railway council of the Altona directorate and the supervisory board and committee of the Lübeck railway directorates, as well as in various joint stock companies in the commercial, commercial, industrial and banking areas.

Instead of a rotational basis at the end of his post as President of the Chamber of Commerce resigning incumbent was on December 12, 1910 Hermann Eschenburg elected by the Chamber of Commerce as his successor. At the meeting on January 3, 1911, the Chamber of Commerce elected Dimpker as its first deputy president .

In his capacity as Präses Dimpker 1912 drove representative with the fast steamer Empress Auguste Victoria , the largest in its commissioning ship in the world, in the United States of America to there in Boston at the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce participate.

5th International Chamber of Commerce Congress 1912 in Boston, USA
Medal of honor of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce

On December 13, 1912, Dimpker was re-elected President of the Chamber of Commerce for 1913 and 1914. When he resigned from the office of President for the third time in 1919, the Chamber of Commerce awarded him their gold medal in iron, “In recognition of the merit of trade and traffic”.

On the basis of section 29 of the ordinance of February 3, 1879, which concerns the implementation of the Courts Constitution Act, the Senate appointed Dimpker as commercial judge at the Chamber of Commerce at the Lübeck Regional Court for the financial years 1898, 1899 and 1900. In December 1900, he and the merchants became Johannes Boye jun. , Paul Nicol. Hinckeldeyn, Richard Piehl , Friedrich Carl Sauermann and Ad. Georg Paul Scheteling was appointed commercial judge by the Senate for the financial years 1901, 1902 and 1903.

politics

Senate commissioners and spokesmen sat on the raised seats at the meetings

In the supplementary election in the fourth constituency ( Johannis Quartiers and the suburb of St. Jürgen ) on June 27, 1899, Dimpker was elected to the citizenry with 588 votes as one of the candidates for the Father City Association. On the basis of the new electoral law passed on August 9, 1905 with the corresponding constitutional amendment, the renewal of a third of the citizenship, with 40 new members to be elected, was carried out on November 14 in the countryside and on November 17 in the city. In order to keep the number of citizenship members at 80 after those elected since 1899, the drawing of five members was necessary. In the new elections that have now taken place, Dimpker was re-elected. From 1909 until his appointment to the Senate, he was the spokesman for this legislative body and the citizens' committee on a regular basis.

On January 20, 1900, the Senate elected Dimpker to replace Heinrich Ludwig Behnke jun. as a civil deputy at the tax assessment commission for the suburb of St. Jürgen . The citizens' committee elected on January 8, 1902 to the Civil Dimpker deputies in the canal authority for the successor of those retired Heinrich Theodor Behn in the Senate elected Emil Possehl . On December 15, 1902, the Senate had elected and re-elected Hinckeldeyn and Dimker as civil deputies at the building deputation (in execution of the council and citizens' resolution of May 28, 1900 / October 29, 1901). In place of the late Fehling, the Senate elected Dimpker as the civil deputy to the finance department .

The citizens' committee elected Dimpker on December 6, 1916 as its spokesman. The same thing happened again on March 12, 1919.

After Boyes' death, the previous head of the Holy Spirit Hospital , the Senate elected Dimpker in his place.

In 1917 and 1918 Dimpker was one of the advisors to the Foreign Office on Germany's Finland policy. With Rudolf Eucken he was one of the founders of the German-Finnish Association .

November 30, 1918

The Lübeck regiment was supposed to return home from this on the morning of November 26, 1918, from guard duty during the transition period around Strasbourg in Alsace-Lorraine , to return home to the main station . At the official ceremony on 30 November at the market next mayor welcomed Fehling as representatives of the Senate, also Dimpker, spokesman for Citizenship, Retyfeldt as a member of the Soldiers 'Council and the editor Stelling as a representative of the Workers' Council which returned home regiment. However, only remnants of this were left. His officers had already left the regiment. Since the regiment commander , Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Hauss , was ill, the commander of the command of the 81st Infantry Brigade , Colonel Hans von Werder , also based in Lübeck, thanked them on behalf of the regiment.

Under the chairmanship of the deputy spokesman Eschenburg, the citizenship elected five new senators on March 31, 1919 after the republican change due to the new constitution. A 16-member commission formed for the purpose of submitting proposals had agreed on Paul Hoff (soc.) For the retiring Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Albert Henze (soc.) For the already retired Johann Georg Eschenburg , Dimpker (dem.) For the to propose Eduard Rabe who had already left , Paul Löwigt for the late Possehl and Fritz Mehrlein (soc.) for Eduard Friedrich Ewers who had left . In the subsequent election made by the citizens, they were elected senators with 74, 74, 75, 74 and 72 votes.

As a senator, as it was said in his obituaries, in the strong party surge of those years he should always have found words to bring closer and closer the balance of existing party differences.

Awards

For special services to the “Collection for the China Warriors”, on March 12, 1902, the emperor presented the steel China memorial coin he had donated to Dimpker, the commercial councilor Georg Theodor Ludwig Pflüg and the inspector of the poor house, Heinrich Titus Holst she became the ladies Mrs. Senator Wolpmann, Mrs. Dr. Wichmann and Frau Oberstabsarzt Brenzler and handed over to them in the name of the imperial commissioner and military inspector of voluntary nursing, Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth , by the state delegate for the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Emil Wolpmann .

In place of the consul Theodor Friedrich Harms , who died on November 18 of the previous year, Dimpker was appointed Royal Württemberg Consul in March 1900 . From then on, until his election to the Senate on April 11, 1919, he was the fate of the kingdom in the Hanseatic city. On the occasion of his birthday on the 25th of the previous month, the King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II. , Awarded the Württemberg consul in Lübeck the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Frederick .

The Red Cross Medal II. Class was awarded on January 29, 1908 to the director of the State Insurance Institute of the Hanseatic Cities based in Lübeck, Alwin Bielefeldt . The same award III. Class was given to the President of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce.

Society for the promotion of charitable activities

Dimpker was accepted as a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on December 11, 1894. On March 11, 1902, Messrs. Emanuel Fehling and Dimpker were elected as auditors for the savings and loan fund in place of Mr. Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp and Mr. Schreiber . The private scholar Friedr Heinr. Christian. Because of the workload, Bruns had to quit his position in the editorial office of the Lübeckische Blätter at the end of 1901 . When he left in the autumn of 1902, Consul Dimpker and the businessman Georg Reimpell were proposed as his successors. At the November 11th meeting, Dimpker was elected. The Lübeck department of the German Colonial Society had its general meeting on November 20, 1907 in the premises of the non-profit organization. Its board of directors included Admiral Heinrich Kühne as first chairman, major general Paul Stern as second chairman, Johann Martin Andreas Neumann , Georg Reimpell, senior pastor Lindenberg, Heinrich Gaerderz, Christian Reuter , major Adolf von Tiedemann , Hermann Eschenburg and Dimpker. A commission consisting of members of the board of directors and the editorial committee was set up to examine the Rahtgens application for an increase in the printing price of the Lübeckische Blätter . This should also consider how savings could be made in the costs of the Lübeckische Blätter . On the part of the committee, Dimpker, among others, was delegated to the commission. At the meeting on November 8, 1910, Dimpker was elected as its new director. He stayed there for three years and devoted himself, among other things, to the museum administration of the Westerauer Foundation and the widow's fund of the merchants.

Dimpker, who was one of the ten richest citizens of Lübeck before the First World War , brought gifts of love to the Lübeck Associations in Flanders ( Belgium ), the children's regiment RIR215, and the Lübeck regiment in northern France during the war . On June 29, 1915, he spoke to them about his trip to the house of the non-profit.

burial

Funeral procession
Carl Dimpker's grave

On the afternoon of the 12th, Dimpker suddenly and unexpectedly died of a stroke . Pastor Albert Busch held the one-hour mourning service on Tuesday, October 16 in St. Mary's Church . In addition to Mayor Neumann , the entire Senate and the former Mayors Eschenburg and Fehling sat in the church's senate pews. The ambassador of the Hanseatic city there, Ernst Meyer-Lüerßen , had come from Berlin, along with the consuls and representatives of the foreign countries ( Legation Councilor of the Chamber of Commerce in Berlin), the Hamburg Shipowners Association ( Association of German Shipowners ), the Bremen Chamber of Commerce , the Reichswehr and blue and green police had dispatched hundreds .

Karl Lichtwark , organist of the church, initiated the event. Once Dimpker was in this church with the slogan: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life." ( Rev. 2.10  LUT ) confirmed been built and bush on his talk in memory. While the brothers of the lodges also present formed a chain of brothers around the coffin, Moritz Hartmann, opera singer at the Lübeck Theater , accompanied by Paul Müthel, organist from St. Gertrud's Church and piano teacher , recited a litany by Schubert. The musician Emil Corbach performed the Largo of Georg Friedrich Händel on the cello .

The carillon on the rider of the Marienkirche ended the service. The funeral procession passed through the dance of death band on Mengstrasse , through Breitestrasse , Sandstrasse and Mühlenstrasse to the Mühlentor .

The funeral procession was preceded by the Reichswehr with its band, followed first by the blue and then the green police . The flags of the comradely associations of which Dimpker was an honorary member, in front of the deceased's order, was followed by his hearse , which was pulled by two horses and carried his coffin , followed by his family, the Senate, the Chamber of Commerce, the foreign deputations and the rest of the funeral suite.

The senator was buried in the St. Jürgen cemetery . After a prayer spoken by Pastor Busch, Gustav Ehlers, as the spokesman for the citizenry , said farewell words before the Reichswehr left the cemetery with the marching song Ich hatt 'a comrade .

family

Since 1887 he was with Lina, geb. Meyer-Vezin, the daughter of the Second Hanover Senator Rudolf Meyer-Vezin, married. The couple had six daughters and two sons.

Both sons were fighting in the infantry regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 , Karl as a lieutenant on November 6, 1915 and August as a non-commissioned officer on January 26, 1918, during the First World War, the Lübeck Senate awarded the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross.

Awards

References

Web links

Commons : Carl Dimpker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Senator Dimpker †. , in: Lübeckische advertisements . , Volume 172, issue A, Sunday evening, no.456, issue of October 13, 1923.
  • Senator Dimpker †. , in: General-Anzeiger , 42nd volume, no.239, issue of October 13, 1923.
  • Senator Carl Dimpker †. , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 65th volume, No. 42, edition of October 12, 1923, p. 463.
  • Senator Carl Dimpker †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1923/24, No. 1, edition of October 21, 1923, pp. 1–2.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 1037.
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007. Volume 46 of series B of publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 61.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The commercial company in the cigarette factory "Lubeca" , in: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 7, edition of February 14, 1904, pp. 25-27.
  2. ↑ Lübeck's first cigarette factory Lubeca in the chapter: On the decline of the tobacco industry in Rüdiger Segenbusch: Lübeck industrial culture , times of change - factories in Lübeck , Lübeck 1993, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , pp. 196-199.
  3. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 36, number 54, edition of July 8, 1894, pp. 376-377.
  4. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 38, number 38, edition of June 28, 1896, pp. 284–285.
  5. ^ Assembly of the merchants. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 1, edition of January 4, 1903, p. 11.
  6. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 46, number 26, edition of June 26, 1904, p. 395.
  7. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 2, edition of January 13, 1907, p. 22.
  8. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 50, number 1, edition of January 5, 1908, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 52, number 69, edition of December 12, 1910, p. 802.
  10. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 53, number 2, edition of January 8, 1911, p. 27.
  11. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 54, number 52, edition of December 22, 1912, p. 810.
  12. ↑ Little news. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 61, number 2, edition of January 12, 1919, p. 26.
  13. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 40, number 2, edition of January 9, 1898, p. 2.
  14. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 42, number 52, edition of December 23, 1900, p. 704
  15. ↑ This year's citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 41, number 27, edition of July 2, 1899, pp. 330–332.
  16. ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  17. ^ Citizenship replacement election. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Year 1905, No. 47, edition of November 19, 1905, pp. 193–194
  18. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 42, number 5, edition of January 28, 1900, p. 74
  19. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 44, number 2, edition of January 12, 1902, p. 24.
  20. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 1, edition of January 4, 1903, p. 13.
  21. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 52, edition of December 29, 1907, p. 751.
  22. ↑ Little news. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 58, number 50, edition of December 10, 1916, p. 810.
  23. ↑ Little news. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 61, number 11, edition of March 16, 1919, p. 166.
  24. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 47, number 41, edition of October 8, 1905, p. 581.
  25. ^ Robert Schweitzer: 20 years of the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce. 80 years of the German-Finnish Association. Festschrift edited by Robert Schweitzer. Helsinki, Lübeck 1998
  26. ^ The homecoming of the Lübeck regiment. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 5, edition of December 8, 1918, pp. 17-19.
  27. ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  28. ^ The newly elected members of the Senate. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 14, edition of April 13, 1919, pp. 53-54.
  29. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 44, number 11, edition of March 16, 1902, p. 154.
  30. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 42, number 12, edition of March 18, 1900, p. 162.
  31. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 48, number 9, edition of March 4, 1906, p. 141.
  32. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 50, number 69, edition of February 2, 1908, p. 69.
  33. ^ Society z. Bef. Charitable activity. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 36, number 99, edition of December 12, 1894, p. 656.
  34. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 44, number 11, edition of March 16, 1902, p. 142.
  35. ^ Report of the editorial committee of the Lübeckische Blätter. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 34, edition of 23 August 1903, p. 430.
  36. ^ German Colonial Society, Lübeck Department. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 49, edition of December 8, 1907, p. 699.
  37. ^ Editorial committee of the Lübeckische Blätter / annual report for 1907. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 50, number 44, edition of November 1, 1908, p. 668.
  38. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 52, number 46, edition of November 13, 1910, p. 646.
  39. ↑ After Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860–1945. Bremen 2007, p. 8.
  40. ↑ The writer Werner Beumelburg was to later coined the term children's regiments. In his books, he referred to the new regiments deployed in Flanders , consisting of inexperienced volunteers , and whose crews he had also belonged to at the time, as children's regiments because of the age of their soldiers .
  41. ↑ See in this context also the memorial stone of the war volunteer "Paul Burmeister".
  42. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 57, number 27, edition of July 4, 1917, p. 390.
  43. ↑ The carillon in the rider of the Marienkirche was only rung at the funeral of a senator.
  44. ↑ funeral and interment Senator Dimpkers. In: Lübeckische advertisements , Volume 173, second sheet, No. 459, edition of October 17, 1923.
personal data
SURNAME Dimpker, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dimpker, Carl Friedrich Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1923
Place of death Lübeck