Carl Friedrich Hansen

Carl Friedrich Hansen (born March 3, 1875 in Crivitz ; † February 20, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German decorative painter , association politician and publicist .

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Carl Friedrich Hansen graduated from a community school in his hometown and went to Berlin at the age of 14. Here he did an apprenticeship as a painter in the workshop of an uncle and met numerous painters with whom he had lifelong friendships. Then he went on a hike and settled in Hamburg. The painter Albert Fensch employed him as a journeyman in his workshop. After passing the master craftsman examination in 1898, Hansen worked independently. In 1902 the Hamburg guild elected him head master. Hansen founded the Allgemeine Maler-Zeitung , which served as a guild organ and in which other north German guilds quickly published articles. During the First German Painters' Day, which took place in Munich in 1905 , Hansen, as the main spokesman, demanded that the master craftsmen's associations should accept the unions as collective bargaining partners in matters of wages and working conditions. He also recommended cooperating with the construction and paint industry.

In 1911 he initiated a successful exhibition on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg . This showed specially built buildings with painted interiors. The Bund für Farbe im Stadtbild , founded in 1926 and co-founded by Hansen, was less successful . From 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council as a recognized association politician. From 1920 to 1934 he was an assessor at the Cartel Court. In his newspaper and in many lectures, Hansen tried to convince other masters that formalities were unnecessary in guilds. He succeeded in giving new impulses to forms of cooperation such as morning speech or the so-called Lucasfest .

In 1932 the guild elected Hansen as head master because of a new, right-wing political orientation. He also had to give up his position as editor of the painter's newspaper. During the time of National Socialism he could not work professionally. Instead, he painted letters and heraldry in private . After the end of the Second World War he worked actively in the guild again. From 1949 to 1954 he published the “Allgemeine Malerzeitung” again.

Carl Friedrich Hansen died on February 20, 1957 in Hamburg. The guild of painters and varnishers in Hamburg named a training center that opened in 1971 after him. She also founded the Carl Friedrich Hansen Foundation , which among other things supports the German Painters and Varnishers Museum, which opened in 1984 and is based in Hamburg-Billwerder .

literature

• Ulrich Bauche : Hansen, Carl Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 174 .
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 71 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).