Carl Ronning

Carl Ronning (born December 18, 1863 in Bielefeld , † July 5, 1949 in Bremen ) was a German merchant and coffee roaster from Bremen.

biography

Ronning was the son of a master carpenter. He completed an apprenticeship in the coffee trade in Celle . He then worked for the Grote company in Hanover .

In 1892 he moved to Bremen and took a job at the company Roselius & Co. on. In 1894 he founded his own company, which was the first to sell packaged coffee. He imported and roasted coffee and later had his own coffee plantations in East Africa . In 1925 he built a coffee roastery on Hohentorstrasse and incorporated a mail order business into it. His shop was at Sögestraße 54 in Bremen. It was destroyed in World War II.

After the war, the new Ronning-Haus von Ronning-Kaffee in Bremen sparked a heated discussion about how the old town should be built. In Sögestraße, uniformly eaves-facing houses were stipulated, while Ronning built a gabled house behind the building plans according to plans by Heinz Logemann against the approval. After a survey of the population, 98% of whom were in favor of the gable, Senator Emil Theil (SPD) subsequently approved this type of structure. The building remained standing and is now a listed building.

The large roastery of Carl Ronning GmbH is located in Neustadt on Dortmunder Straße. After Ronning's death, his son Otto Ronning (1905–1983) took over the company in the 1950s. His activity ended when the company was taken over by Melitta in 1966 .

Honors

• The Carl-Ronning-Straße in Bremen's old town was named after him.
• The Kulturhaus Ronning for concerts and meetings in Bremen on Benquestrasse bears his name.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .