Carl Flemming (entrepreneur)

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Carl Flemming (also: Karl Flemming ; * 12. December 1862 in Hannover ; † 17th November 1934 in Wiesbaden ) was a German engineer , industrialist , official of the association of brick - and sound - Industry and Consul .

Life

Villa built by Ferdinand Eichwede for "Karl Flemming" at Tiergartenstrasse 45 ; not received; after a watercolor by Oskar Grüner , 1905

Karl Flemming appeared as an entrepreneur and author at the beginning of the 20th century. About the gas coke wholesaler Keune, Flemming & Co. , based in Hanover, which, for example, acted as a buyer of 11,000 t of coke as early as 1903, the engineer, who was considered a “specialist” in the operation of boilers , published an address to homeowners around 1910/11 15-page paper on fuel for central heating boilers, in which he recommended the use of heating coke and, above all, gas coke .

Even before that, in 1905, the architect Ferdinand Eichwede built a villa for "Karl Flemming" at what was then Tiergartenstrasse 45, later Hindenburgstrasse 45, which the Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung reported on a few years later .

Flemming born on June 23, 1891 Son Ewald Flemming, of the German Empire as a lieutenant in the Hussar Regiment 19 had served, was killed in World War I on the Western Front in the French community Pierre-Morains . In memory of the “dear son”, the parents had a stone set with a sculpture by the sculptor Georg Herting at the Engesohde town cemetery .

In the middle of the war, Keune, Flemming et al. Co. partially refused to the Oberstadtdirektor Heinrich Tramm on his petitions to promote German artists, because the alleviation of numerous social hardships in times of war would be more urgent, sometimes the company asked "in return a hundredweight of sugar for their apple orchard in Kirchrode ".

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Keune, Flemming a. Co. Gas coal from America via coal steamer across the Atlantic. In 1920 the steamer SS William O'Brien , loaded with the company's own 7000 t of gas coal and whose cargo was intended for North and South German industry, caught fire on the journey from Hampton Roads to Rotterdam and sank. After several days the search for the crew was given up - no trace of 36 people was ever found again.

Also until 1920 the company operated a branch in Dresden at the address Albrechtstraße 12 with the purpose of "exporting mining products" .

Form from “Keune, Flemming & Cie., Bergwerks-Produkte, Ein u. Export ”from Hohenzollernstrasse 6 in Hanover, addressed to Portland Cement AG in Schwanebeck

Shortly before the peak of the German hyperinflation , Flemming had the steam brick Altwarmbüchen Carl Flemming OHG, Hanover , operated in Altwarmbüchen and named after him, entered in the commercial register at the Hanover District Court under number HRA 15767 , of which the Flemmingsche Tonkuhle , which is still preserved as a pond, testifies to this day.

A little later, Flemming acquired the brickworks in Berenbostel near Garbsen , the property of which also became known as Flemmingsche Tonkuhle .

During the Weimar Republic , Carl Flemming was granted an exequatur at Christmas on December 24, 1931 as the electoral vice-consul of Argentina .

Carl Flemming was a member of the Section for brick industry , which after the seizure of power by the National Socialists unified former associations of the German brick and Tonindustriellen in which from 1 July 1934 all brick plants in Germany had to be forcibly member. Since then, the specialist group has been subordinate to the Stone and Earth Economic Group . Until then, Flemming had earned himself as chairman of the Lower Saxony district of the specialist group "Merits [...] for the German brick and tile industry and in particular for his native Lower Saxony".

Flemming died after a short illness at the age of almost 62 years.

Grave monument of the Flemming family by Karl Siebrecht in the Engesohde city cemetery ; Sculpture by Georg Herting for Ewald Flemming; Hermes head and modified Hermes staff for Carl Flemming

Carl Flemming was buried in his family grave at the Engesohde city cemetery .

Keune, Flemming & Cie. However, it was still operating in the Lower Saxony state capital in the post-war period and was temporarily based in Bödekerstraße 7 .

Fonts

  • How do I operate my heating boiler and how can I save money? (Central heating coke) , [1910?]

Flemmingstrasse

  • In 1961, Flemmingstraße, named after the brickworks owner and consul, was laid out in the Hanover district of Ledeburg , which leads from Immelmannstraße to Verdener Straße.
  • In the Berenbostel district of Garbsen, in memory of Carl Keune, the street that leads from the fork in Auf dem Kampe and Im Fuchsfeld to Bundesstrasse 6 at Heidehauswald was named after the coal merchant and operator of the Flemming brickworks.

Archival material

Archives by and about Carl Flemming can be found, for example

  • as a file with the title circular from the sender Keune, Flemming u. Cie for the period from 1892 to 1920 at the Lower Saxony Economic Archives Foundation in Braunschweig, archive signature WirtA BS NWA 38 Zg. 2010/022 No. 279
  • as various letters of reply from Keune, Flemming & Co. to senior city director Heinrich Tramm regarding art patronage, period 1915 to 1916; City archive Hanover , archive signature StAH HR XC7.14

Web links

Commons : Carl Flemming (Konsul)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Flemmingstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 79
  2. ↑ a b Reinhard Glaß: Eichwede, Eduard Karl Ferdinand in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , a research project by Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink and Reinhard Glaß [undated], last accessed on February 11, 2020
  3. ↑ a b water and gas. Wochenschrift , first year (1920), p. 257; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d Konsul Carl Flemming † , in: Tonindustrie-Zeitung , number 93, 58th year (1934), p. 1137; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ a b Journal for gas lighting and related types of lighting, as well as for water supply . Organ of the German Association of Gas and Water Experts , Munich; Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1911, p. 116; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Schilling's Journal for gas lighting and related types of lighting and for water supply , R. Oldenbourg, 1903, p. 39
  7. ^ A b Max Osborn : Brüder Siebrecht , Berlin, 1928, Figure 30
  8. ↑ a b Werk und Kunst , No. 5: Building space device and education. Werk & Kunst in Hannover , 1930, p. 154
  9. ↑ a b Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , notes 174 and 180 on p. 315; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ a b c Loss of a coal steamer , in: Wasser und Dampf , Volume 10, 1919/1920, p. 665; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ^ Give Up Hunt For Freighter. . In: Boston Post , April 25, 1920, p. 9. Retrieved October 22, 2019.  (Free snippet)
  12. ^ Journal for gas lighting and related types of lighting as well as for water supply , Volume 63, Munich, Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1920, pp. 354, 359; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ↑ Information on the northdata.de page
  14. ↑ oV : The Flemmingsche Tonkuhle on the side hannover.de [no date], as last accessed on February 11, 2020
  15. ↑ Werner Baesmann: History / Berenbostel - a district of today's city of Garbsen on the website of the Heimatverein Berenbostel [ undated ], last accessed on February 11, 2020
  16. ↑ Markus Holz: Toxic waste on the edge of Stelingen The contaminated sites are seething in the ground / The Hanover region has discovered old toxic waste in two former sand pits on the edge of Stelingen. The groundwater is polluted in both places, in one case even considerably. Carcinogenic chlorinated hydrocarbons as well as ammonium and zinc are proven. , Article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 5, 2016, updated on July 8, 2016, last accessed on February 11, 2020
  17. ^ Reichsministerialblatt. Zentralblatt fèur das Deutsche Reich , vol. 60, Reichs- und Staatsverlag, 1932, p. Xxv; limited preview in Google Book search
  18. ↑ Information from the German National Library
  19. ↑ The great Hartmann . Sector and source of goods reference , Bonn: Hartmann, S. 1763; limited preview in Google Book search
  20. ↑ Werner Kaemling, Heinrich Bremer, Hans Ehlich, Anton Freytag, Karl-Heinz Strehlke, Erhard Tegtmeyer, Hans Ulrich: City of Garbsen. Historical development , ed. von der Stadt Garbsen, 1978, p. 259; limited preview in Google Book search
  21. ^ Information about the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
personal data
SURNAME Flemming, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flemming, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coal trader, clay industrialist and association official
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1934
Place of death Wiesbaden