Carl Lampe (entrepreneur)

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Carl Lampe (lithograph from 1850)

Carl Lampe (born July 10, 1804 in Leipzig , † December 15, 1889 there ) was a German entrepreneur, art patron and railway pioneer.

Life

Carl Lampe in the last years of his life (photograph before 1889)
Carl Lampe in the council chamber of the Old Town Hall ( sitting together with Mayor Otto Koch at the round table in the background, around 1858)

Carl Lampe was the son of Johann Caspar Lampe (1766-1817), the main partner in the drug dealership Brückner, Lampe & Co. , which had emerged from a drugstore founded in 1750 by David Heinrich Brückner from Merseburg with business connections as far as Russia and America. Lampe expanded his father's company as a wholesale business and added a factory for essential oils and chemical products. With regularly published trade reports he gave the professional world an overview of the pharmaceutical market and thus also promoted the entire pharmaceutical industry. He also donated a pharmacognostic collection to the University of Leipzig .

At the suggestion of Carl Lampe and Hermann Härtel (1803–1875), fifteen citizens of Leipzig, including merchants and publishers, came together in November 1836 in his house "Milchinsel" to found the Leipzig Art Association. The purpose of the association was to build an art museum, which happened in 1848 with the opening of the municipal museum . He donated to the museum a collection of more than 1,600 art sheets compiled according to didactic, art-historical systematising principles. In doing so, he laid the foundation for the museum's graphic collection. Numerous historical photos in the photographic collection also come from Lampe's possession.

Carl Lampe (center, standing) among the board of directors of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company (1852)

Carl Lampe was a city councilor and city councilor from 1834 to 1838. As a city councilor, he advocated Friedrich List's ideas for building a railway line to Dresden. In 1835 he was a co-founder of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie and a member of the company's first board of directors.

In 1832 he was one of the founders of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk . For over 50 years he worked as honorary treasurer of the central board of the association. In the same year he was accepted into the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .

In 1845, in memory of the part of the Leipzig city area that was first conquered in the Battle of Leipzig , Lampe had the ball monument erected on his Gut Milchinsel . The property in front of the back gate had already been bought by Lampe's father in 1807. This was the residence of the Lampe family.

In 1845, Lampe was one of the founders of the General Gymnastics Club in Leipzig . He had a gymnastics area set up for the club on his property.

In the 1840s he bought land from the Schönefeld manor house , which had lost its agricultural value due to the construction of the Leipzig – Dresden railway line, which at that time ran along today's Eisenbahnstraße. At the same time, Lampe submitted a draft for the subdivision of this area. Houses with six rental apartments each were built on 78 building sites. He named the newly laid streets after the first names of his eight children Georgstrasse (since 1907 Melchiorstrasse), Clarastrasse (part of the street Rabet since 1890), Friedrichstrasse (since 1905 Thümmelstrasse), Philippstrasse, Sophienstrasse, Rudolfstrasse and Heinrichstrasse. All of these street names are no longer preserved today due to renaming, demolition or overbuilding. In 1845 the place was named Neuschönefeld .

Carl Lampe died at the age of 85. His grave in the New Johannisfriedhof with a neo-renaissance grave monument designed by himself is no longer preserved.

Honors

literature

  • Werner Wendt: Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century using the example of Johann Marc Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), Gustav Harkort (1795–1865) and Carl Lampe (1804–1889). Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2010, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-88457
  • Karsten Hommel: Carl lamp. A Leipzig educated citizen, entrepreneur, promoter of art and science between Romanticism and Empire. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-930076-95-0
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 330, 403, 433
  • Albert Dufour-Féronce : One hundred and fifty years of a German drug dealership 1750-1900. A contribution to the history of your company published on February 7, 1900 by Brückner, Lampe & Co. Leipzig Berlin Hamburg. Meisenbach Riffahrt & Co., Leipzig 1900

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Kästner: History of the pharmacognostic collection and pharmacognostic teaching at the Leipzig University. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 18, 1999, pp. 223-240; here: p. 225 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , pp. 25, 60, 109, 131, 149, 174, 209
  3. ↑ Markus Cottin et al .: Leipzig Monuments. Edited by the Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , p. 86
  4. ↑ Bettina Weil: Leipzig bridges I. Bridges over Pleiße, Mühlpleiße, Floßgraben and Pleißemühlgraben. City of Leipzig, Office for Statistics and Elections, Leipzig 2008, p. 38
  5. ↑ The lamp bridge, which no longer exists in the vault line, is to be rebuilt in the same place after the vaulted Mühlgraben has been revealed.
personal data
SURNAME Lamp, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1889
Place of death Leipzig