Carl Leopold Netter

Max Liebermann : Councilor of Commerce Dr. Carl Leopold Netter , 1917

Carl Leopold Netter

Carl Leopold Netter , also Karl (born January 29, 1864 in Bühl (Baden) , † July 14, 1922 in Baden-Baden ) was a German entrepreneur and patron .

Live and act

He was the son of the Buhler entrepreneur Jacob Netter, who, together with his brother Joseph, had greatly expanded their father Wolf Netter's hardware business and expanded it to include the manufacture of iron and steel products. In 1873 the company expanded to Strasbourg through Salomon Jacobi and became Wolf Netter & Jacobi . Carl Leopold Netter joined the company management in 1885 after the death of his brother Emil. He took over the management of the plant in Berlin-Adlershof and the representative office in Berlin. During his time the company expanded rapidly.

Carl Leopold Netter was involved in a variety of ways. In Berlin he was the elder of the Berlin merchants and honorary commercial judge at the Chamber for Commercial Matters at Regional Court I in Berlin. In the Jewish Community of Berlin he was chairman of the building commission and was one of the benefactors of the University for the Science of Judaism , the Israelitic Hospital and the Jewish Colonization Society (JCA) as well as the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith . From 1915 to 1920 he was chairman of the hospital board. He was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich for Justice . For his services he was awarded the title of Commerzienrat . In his hometown of Bühl in 1905 he donated the funds for the creation of the city garden with the Grand Duke Friedrich Monument, equipped the secondary school and the trade school with teaching aids and grants, and made regular grants for the poor of all denominations. In 1906 he was made an honorary citizen of Bühl.

In the middle of the First World War , he donated in 1916 at the suggestion of Karl Heinsheimer , who spoke about Cäcilie, geb. Netter, his mother-in-law was related to him, held a seminar for legal, economic and comparative law studies at the University of Heidelberg and in 1918 established an endowed professorship to which Friedrich Karl Neubecker was appointed. After the foundation capital was largely lost in the inflation of the 1920s , the foundation of the foundation was taken over by the University of Heidelberg. The seminar continues as an institute for foreign and international private and commercial law at Heidelberg University. The "Foundation from 1916 for legal, economic and comparative law studies" established by Netter supports this institute with the remaining funds until today. Part of the Netterchen foundation was later integrated into the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law . The Heidelberg Law Faculty awarded him an honorary doctorate in law in 1917 .

Artfully worked fencing of his grave site (hereditary funeral of the families Dr. J. Lewinsohn and Carl Leopld Netter)

Carl Leopold Netter had been with Clara, b. Bloch (* 1872) married. However, she died on November 22, 1893 of oyster poisoning . The couple had a daughter, Cécilie, born in 1892. In 1912 she married the lawyer Julius Seligsohn, who took the name Seligsohn-Netter and became a partner in the company. He emigrated to England in 1938 and died here in 1964.

Carl Leopold Netters funeral service was held in the Berlin synagogue Fasanenstrasse by Rabbi Leo Baeck . His funeral speech and that of Julius Stern as well as the speeches by Rabbi Dr. Loewenthal, Julius Blau , the Bühler Mayor Grüninger, Professor Karl Heinsheimers and others at the burial in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee appeared in a commemorative publication published by the Syndicus of the Jewish Community Leo Lilienthal.

Afterlife

Carl-Netter-Tower in Bühl

Carl-Netter-Straße and, since 1993, Carl-Netter-Realschule are named after Carl Leopold Netter . The Grand Duke Friedrich Anniversary Tower , donated by him and his brother Adolph Netter in 1902 on the occasion of the 50th jubilee on the throne , is unofficially known as the Carl Netter observation tower . In the Bühler Stadtgarten, a granite boulder with a bronze plaque commemorates Adolf and Carl Leopold Netter.

A collection of documents relating to the company and family, the Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection is now in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City .

Restitutions

The restitution of a small part of the assets in Switzerland from Netter's estate did not take place until 2010.

In 1916, Carl Leopold Netter acquired the Spitzweg painting The Night Watchman Asleep from the Heinemann Gallery. His daughter inherited it in 1922 and had to auction it off in 1936. In February 2005, their heirs received it back through restitution and had it auctioned off by Christie's in Amsterdam in 2006.

Works

• In memory of the 25th business anniversary of Wolf Netter & Jacobi in Strasbourg I./E. Dedicated to his dear Socien Salomon Jacobi and Adolf Netter, In Liebe und Treue by Carl Leop. Nice one. Berlin 1898 digitized

literature

• Dionys Höss: Carl Leopold Netter - "a man in which spirit is" . In: Jewish life. On the trail of the Israelite community . (= Bühler Heimatgeschichte; Volume 15). Stadtgeschichtliches Institut, Bühl 2001, ISBN 3-928916-37-8 , pp. 22-28
• Horst A. Wessel :  Netter (Neter, Noether), merchant and industrialist family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Roland Hecker: Blacksmithing in Berlin Cemeteries, Berlin (Verlag Dr. Köster) 1999, p. 81, ISBN 3-89574-355-0
• Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe, ed. by Jörg Haspel and Klaus von Krosigk, editing: Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn, Detlev Pietzsch u. a. (Contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin, vol. 27), Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2008, p. 232, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2
• The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, Berlin, ed. by the Jewish Community of Berlin, edited by Regina Borgmann, Jörg Kuhn, Fiona Laudamus, Klaus von Krosigk and Wolfgang Gottschalk, Berlin 2011, p. 50, no. 30 (author: Jörg Kuhn)

Web links

Commons : Carl Leopold Netter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection , Leo Baeck Institute

Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection 1895–1993 Bulk: 1895–1954 Digital copies from the collection on Internet Archive , Volume 1 (Box 1, Folder 1 - Box 2, Folder 2)

Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection 1895–1993 Bulk: 1895–1954 Digital copies from the collection on Internet Archive , Volume 2 (Box 2, Folder 3–7)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data from the CL Netter estate (PDF; 105 kB), decision of the Claims Resolution Tribunal of April 16, 2010 (Case No. CV96-4849), accessed on November 3, 2011
2. ↑ Overview of the donations made by the Netter family to the municipality of Bühl
3. ^ Klaus-Peter Schroeder: A university for lawyers and by lawyers: The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010 (Heidelberger Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 1) ISBN 978-3-16-150326-9 , p. 307f.
4. ↑ History and chronicle of the institute ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection , Box 2, Folder 7
6. ↑ Carl Leopold Netter, Dr. iur eh: born on January 29, 1864, died on July 14, 1922. ( digitized version )
7. ↑ History of the CNRS ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 4, 2011  
8. ^ City of Bühl
9. ↑ Entry in Alemannia Judaica
10. ^ Nachlass CL Netter (PDF; 105 kB), decision of the Claims Resolution Tribunal of April 16, 2010 (Case No. CV96-4849), accessed on November 3, 2011
11. ↑ Christie's