Carl Wilhelm round

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Carl (also: Johann Karl ) Wilhelm Runde (born August 16, 1785 in Hanover ; † February 3, 1859 there ) was a German businessman and senator and, as a patron, founder of the "Runde Foundation " named after him .

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Born during the time of the Electorate of Hanover , Carl Wilhelm Runde took over the “material, drug and color goods store”, which was then renamed Carl Wilh, during the so-called “ French era ” in 1809 . Round . When the company was taken over, Runde was obliged to look after his 5 unmarried sisters in the appropriate manner - and then led the business to an economic boom, temporarily together with his partner Heinrich Theodor Garvens .

On October 6, 1815, Runde was admitted to the Masonic Lodge Zur Ceder under matriculation number 199 , where he took on numerous offices: first deputy treasurer, then deputy second overseer, from 1834 to 1840 second and then until 1849 first overseer of the lodge. Under Georg Philipp Holscher , he was elected deputy lodge master from 1848 to 1849, and then appointed old master and honorary master.

In the meantime, Rund (also: Runde) at the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover was elected senator of the royal seat and as such was responsible for urban construction , the Packhof and then the city's own brickworks from 1840 to 1856 .

Having achieved great prosperity, Carl Wilhelm Runde established a foundation in 1856 for "fatherless, unmarried, blameless, over 20-year-old daughters of Hanoverian merchants".

Carl Wilhelm Runde was first buried in the old St. Nikolai cemetery , but then reburied in an honorary grave at the Engesohde city cemetery .

After Rundes death, his former partner Heinrich Theodor Garvens became the sole owner of the company and then founded a machine and pump factory in 1865, from which the company Garvens & Comp. emerged.

Honors

In addition to the honorary grave, in 1883 instead of the former “Umfuhr” behind the main train station, the so-called Rundestrasse was redesigned as a street with a different route during the redesign of the Raschplatz in what is now the Mitte district .

The "Round Foundation"

From the interest of the "Runde Foundation" with assets of the equivalent of 340,000 marks , up to 44 pensions could be paid out annually . When the old Reichsmark was devalued after the Second World War in 1948 as a result of the currency reform , the “Runde Foundation” was abandoned in 1950.

literature

  • Helmut Plath : Round in the office. Watercolor. Around 1840. In: Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, p. 42f.
  • Dirk Böttcher : ROUND, Carl Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 304f.
  • Dirk Böttcher: Round, Carl Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 531.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dirk Böttcher: Round ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächer (ed.), Uta Müller-Glassl, Helmut Zimmermann (text): Stadtfriedhof Engesohde , brochure, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, November 2007, p. 24; downloadable as a PDF document from georg-ebeling-stiftung.de
  3. ^ Hermann Jäger : Allgemeines Illustrirtes Gartenbuch , S. 144; online through google books
  4. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : GARVENS, (1) Heinrich Theodor. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 125; online through google books
  5. ^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Carl Wilhelm Runde . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 116
  6. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Rundestrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 213
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Leonhardt : "Hanoverian Stories". Reports from different parts of the city. Working Group District History List , 1st edition 2009/2010, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , p. 92; online through google books

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the city lexicon (see under literature: Dirk Böttcher: Runde ... ) names the year 1885
personal data
SURNAME Round, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Runde, Carl Wilh .; Runde, Karl Wilhelm; Runde, Karl Wilh .; Round, Johann Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, senator and founder of the foundation
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1859
Place of death Hanover