Carl Hermann Theodor Haase

Carl Hermann Theodor Haase , also Karl , from 1889 von Haase (born July 19, 1831 in Stralsund , † November 18, 1893 in Hamburg ) was a German entrepreneur, long-term leaseholder of the Hamburg gas works and Imperial Persian Consul General .

Live and act

Wiebendorf mansion (architectural drawing 1885)

Roggendorf Manor (2011)

Haase was the fourth son of Karl Ehrenfried Haase († 4 February 1864), Artillery - quartermaster and later Clerk of the Police Department in Stralsund , and his wife Sofie born, Tiedt († February 14, 1866).

Haase attended elementary school and high school in Stralsund . After serving as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Battalion of the Prussian 2nd Infantry (King) Regiment stationed in Stralsund , he began an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and, after completing his apprenticeship, worked in various mechanical engineering workshops. In the early 1850s he worked in the workshops of the mechanical engineering institute of Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert and in the machine factory of Carl Hoppe in Berlin. At Hoppe he was mostly entrusted with the execution of assembly work in the Berlin gas works .

In 1853 he joined the gas works on Gitschiner Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg as an assistant. Haase then worked as an operating assistant at the gas works on Stralauer Platz and from 1858 on the construction of the new gas works III in Müllerstrasse , which he took over as manager and retained until 1873.

In 1873 he applied for the lease of the Hamburg gas works, which was advertised at the time and which was also awarded to him on the intercession of Mayor Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller . Haase took over the leasing and overhead management of the Hamburg gas works by contract dated February 10, 1874, initially for a period of ten years. In 1882, the contract was renewed, which also regulated the takeover of the construction and operation of the municipal power station to be built. Haase canceled the contract on April 1, 1891, after which the Hamburg gas works became a municipal company.

From 1888 until his death in 1893, Haase was Imperial Persian Consul General in Hamburg.

He used the great fortune that Haase had acquired mainly on the purchase and development of an extensive property in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1880 he acquired Wiebendorf, now part of Bengerstorf , Ludwigslust-Parchim district , which also included the Bretzin farm. In 1886 the Roggendorf estate with its properties Marienthal, Klein Salitz and Dorotheenhof was added for 1.5 million marks .

From 1882 he had the Wiebendorf manor house built according to plans by Martin Haller . With its 37 meter high dome, modeled on Charlottenburg Palace , it was the largest and most magnificent mansion in West Mecklenburg until it was largely destroyed in 1943. In Roggendorf, too, Haase had Haller build a new mansion in the style of a villa.

In 1889 he set up a Fideikommißstiftung from the estates , which received approval from the sovereign on March 4, 1889. With a diploma on May 28, 1889, he was raised to the hereditary nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm II in his capacity as King of Prussia .

In 1891 he moved entirely to his estates, but died in Hamburg in November 1893 as a result of a serious illness. He was then transferred to Wiebendorf and then buried in the family crypt in the Zahrensdorf churchyard.

Family and offspring

On October 6, 1860, Theodor Haase married Marie Emilie Malwine Lewien in Berlin (* May 6, 1841 in Berlin; † September 20, 1897 in Wiebendorf). The couple had three children, the daughter Wally Charlotte Emelie (* May 6, 1863 in Berlin), who married Henning von Winterfeld on May 30, 1884 in Hamburg, on Frauenholz near Bad Oldesloe , and the daughter Elfriede Else Emilie (* 12 July 1871 in Berlin), who married Helmhart Auer von Herrenkirchen, captain and company commander in the Anhalt Infantry Regiment No. 93 ( Bernburg ) on September 26, 1889 in Hamburg , as well as their son Arthur Benno Kurt (Curt), (* 9. December 1882 in Hamburg), who, after the death of Carl von Haase, became a beneficiary of the family affidavit and lived on Roggendorf until 1945. He married Adelheid von Bonin on April 23, 1907 (born November 17, 1885 in Köslin ).

Family coat of arms

The split coat of arms from 1889 shows: in the front a silver uprooted oak tree, elevated by a flying bird, in the back an upright silver hare on a red background, holding three golden rays of lightning in his right hand. On the crowned helmet with a red and silver helmet cover , a growing right arm clad in green sleeves wielding a Persian saber .

literature

• Obituary Carl H. Theodor Haase. In: Schillings 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. No. 36 (1893), p. 717 f.
• Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. First volume. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 183.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ III. Division of the Prussian 2nd Artillery Regiment in Stralsund
2. ↑ Gerd Gropp, Ramin Shaghaghi: A Hanseatic-Persian trade agreement from Istanbul from 1842. In: Hendrik Fenz (Ed.): Structural constraints - personal freedoms: Ottomans, Turks, Muslims: reflections on social upheavals. Commemorative volume in honor of Petra Kappert (= On the history and culture of the Islamic Orient. Volume 21). de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11021-065-1 , p. 205.
3. ↑ Hamburger Nachrichten of January 13, 1886
4. ↑ Gert Gröning: The Alster von Roggendorf: Leberecht Migge and the Park von Haase. A view from a hundred years away. In: Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Art processes between the center and the periphery. Lukas, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-061-0 , p. 502 f.
5. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1894. P. 91.
6. ^ ^{A b} Marcelli Janecki: Handbook of the Prussian nobility. First volume. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 183.