Carl Klävemann

Carl Hermann Klävemann (born August 22, 1816 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † March 2, 1872 ibid) was a German businessman who was also active as a politician and founder .

Life

Klävemann came from an old Oldenburg family, which was first mentioned in 1311. He was the youngest son of the elder and businessman Johann Dietrich Klävemann (1769–1857) and his second wife Susanne geb. Freye. His brother was the long-time city ​​director and later an honorary citizen of Varel Dietrich Klävemann .

After completing high school, Klävemann entered his father's trading business, which he continued to run on his own after his death. In addition to his successful commercial activity, he became increasingly interested in politics since the revolution of 1848/49 . He represented liberal views and was elected to the Oldenburg city council in January 1848. On March 10, 1848, he was one of the co-signers of an address to Grand Duke August I , in which a liberal constitution for Oldenburg was called for. In September 1848 he participated in the founding of Oldenburg's first political association and was briefly a member of the Oldenburg state parliament from 1860 to 1861 .

In the following years he turned more to local politics. From 1852 to 1872 he was re-elected as councilor without interruption , partly because of his successful endeavors to further develop Oldenburg's buildings. Furthermore, in 1857 he was appointed to the management of the newly founded Oldenburg insurance company . His common sense, which was already pronounced during his lifetime, was fully revealed when it became known after his death that Klävemann, who had remained single, had given the city of Oldenburg a foundation.

As early as June 12, 1871, in his will, he had decreed a number of legates totaling 8,000 Rthlr. to be paid to charitable organizations in Oldenburg. These legacies led to the formation of smaller foundations, such as the "Klävemann Foundation for the Elisabeth Children's Hospital" or the "Klävemann Foundation for Deaconesses", which became the "United Support Fund" in 1926 and then the "Oldenburg Citizens' Foundation" in 1984, which was renamed the Vereinte Oldenburger Sozialstiftung in 2007. Another legacy of 50,000 Rthlr. should be paid to the city itself. In addition, a plot of land on Donnerschweer Strasse was made available that, according to the statutes of the city council, small apartments were to be built in the following years for innocent and less well-off families and individuals who could live there for “cheap rent”. This was the decisive legacy that ultimately led to the establishment of the actual Klävemann Foundation in Oldenburg .

His brother Dietrich Klävemann later expanded the foundation in his will to include additional assets and building land from his private property.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Webpage of the Klävemann Foundation on the homepage of the City of Oldenburg ( memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Klävemann, Carl Hermann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 370-371 ( online ).