Carl Woldemar Becker

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Carl Woldemar Becker around 1895
Carl Woldemar (left) behind his wife Mathilde Becker, née von Bültzingslöwen (left) Paula Becker (standing, center) in the winter garden at “ Schwachhauser Chaussee 23 ”; her domicile from 1888–1899

Carl Woldemar Becker ( Russian Карл Вольдемар Беккер ; born January 31, 1841 in Odessa ; † November 30, 1901 in Bremen ) was a railway engineer and father of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the younger brother of the assassin Oskar Wilhelm Becker . The latter became famous for his assassination attempt on King Wilhelm of Prussia .

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Carl Woldemar Becker was the son of Paul Adam von Becker (born May 8, 1808 in Reval (Tallinn), † April 20, 1881 in Dresden ) a professor and director of the French Lycée Richelieu in Odessa. His father was given the title “Real Imperial Russian Council of State” ( Russian действительный статский советник ). Paul Adam von Becker was married three times, the first wife and mother of Paula's father was Elise Wilhelmine Becker, née Dörstling (born February 10, 1818 in Chemnitz , † January 16, 1844 in Odessa ). She was a first cousin . After the death of their mother, Elise Wilhelmine Becker, Carl Woldemar and his brother Oskar returned to Saxony in the early 1850s . Other family members were added and also settled in Dresden, such as Adam von Becker since 1862 with his third wife, aunt Wilhelmine (called Minna / Minchen Becker), then Woldemars four younger half-siblings and five siblings from his wife Mathilde von Bültzingslöwen.

The older brother of Carl Woldemar Becker was Oskar Becker (born June 18, 1839 in Odessa, † July 16, 1868 in Alexandria ), who committed an assassination attempt on the then Prussian King Wilhelm of Prussia in 1861 .

Hosted the letters that Carl Woldemar Becker to his daughter Paula Modersohn-Becker, is known to both Paris and Saint Petersburg and London knew and besides Russian and French and English speaking.

Carl Woldemar Becker had finished his engineering studies at the Dresden Polytechnic and then worked from 1872 to 1873 as a railway engineer in a private engineering office in Chemnitz. In 1873 he moved his center of life to Dresden. Carl Woldemar Becker worked there as a construction and operations inspector for the Berlin-Dresdner Bahn ( Royal Saxon State Railways ). He was responsible for the Saxon construction section of the new Dresden-Berlin line .

The Becker family lived in Dresden- Friedrichstadt for the first twelve years , initially at "Schäferstrasse 59", at the corner of "Menageriestrasse", one floor above the railway company's office. Later, in 1876, the family moved to "Friedrichstrasse 29". Your new domicile was directly opposite the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital ; the Becker family moved into the ground floor of the one-story building. A large front garden and an even more extensive garden area behind it were attached to it.

Oskar Becker's conviction in 1861 meant that his brother Carl Woldemar, Paula's father, faced difficulties for his further professional career. In 1888 the family moved to Bremen . Carl Woldemar Becker was able to accept a municipal position as a building officer there. The family lived in the Hanseatic city in a " house on Schwachhauser Chaussee 23 " (today " Schwachhauser Heerstraße "). The 2000  m² property belonged to the Bremen State Railways and, from 1883, the Prussian State Railroad , which furnished the family with a service apartment in the house.

Later he worked in Bremen as a construction officer for the state railway. In 1895 he lost his job in the course of the dismantling or further restructuring ( restructuring of the railway directorates (1895) , see also Prussian State Railways ) of jobs at the Bremen Railway. Carl Woldemar Becker tried again for employment in Saxony, first in Leipzig and later in Dresden. Unemployment and early retirement at fifty-three years of age pulled him into a depressive mood. In 1899, Carl Woldemar Becker and his family moved to their new domicile at “Wachtstrasse 43” in Bremen. It was the house of the painter and art patron Aline von Kapff .

Family and origin

His grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Becker had moved from Saxony as a teacher, later professor of Roman literature and court counselor, first to the Baltic States and later to the Ukraine . He died in Kiev . His wife was Anna Margarethe Friederike Becker, née von Hueck.

Dresden-Friedrichstadt : Carl Woldemar and Mathilde Becker lived at "Friedrichstrasse 29" since the mid-1870s (today "Friedrichstrasse 29" bears house number "46")
Bremen : Becker's house at " Schwachhauser Chaussee 23 " (today "Schwachhauser Heerstraße")
House of the von Kapff family on the Great Weser Bridge in "Wachtstrasse 43" (1907), the family lived here since 1899

Carl Woldemar Becker's wife was Mathilde (born November 3, 1852, Lübeck ; † January 22, 1926, Bremen). Mathilde's father was the German officer and geodesist Ferdinand von Bültzingslöwen , her grandmother Emilie Dorothea Sophie, née Lange (* October 10, 1815, † January 16, 1896), had died in 1896. came from the Thuringian noble family von Bültzingslöwen .

His wife's family was similarly open to the world. Mathilde von Bültzingslöwen's father Ferdinand was the commander of a troop contingent abroad, two of her brothers had emigrated to Indonesia , New Zealand and Australia . Carl Woldemar and Mathilde Becker had been married since 1871. They married in Chemnitz . The children were in the order:

  • Kurt (1873–1948), later Dr. med. Kurt Becker-Glauch, court doctor; was born in Chemnitz.
  • Bianca Emilie ("Milly") Becker (1874–1949), married Johannes Rohland, a merchant from Basel and in 1905
  • Minna Hermine Paula (1876–1907), painter

was born in Dresden-Friedrichstadt at "Schäferstrasse 59".

In the new domicile at "Friedrichstrasse 29"

  • Günther Becker (1877–1928), businessman in Australia and the twins
  • Hans Becker († 1882), died of pneumonia at the age of two
  • Herma Becker (1885–1963), teacher at a secondary school, married Moritz Weinberg in 1915 and
  • Harry ("Henner") Becker (1885–1949), trained at North German Lloyd .

Web links

  • The Becker family in the garden of "Schwachhauser Chaussée 23"; museen-boettcherstrasse.de [12]

literature

  • Barbara Beuys : Paula Modersohn-Becker or: when art is life. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20835-3 , pp. 9-46
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1998, ISBN 0-8101-1644-8 , p. 438

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Paul Adam von Becker. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ^ Radio Bremen Dresden - Bremen - Worpswede, biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker ( Memento from January 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ The building was demolished in the 1950s.
  4. ^ Address book Dresden 1875, SLUB, p. 21 [1]
  5. ^ According to the Dresden 1876 address book, SLUB p. 22, they still lived at Schäferstrasse 59 [2]
  6. ↑ According to other data, the residential building had the address “Schäferstraße 42”, corner “Menageriestraße”: Marina Bohlmann-Modersohn: Paula Modersohn-Becker. A biography with letters. btb, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-73643-0 , p. 9. However, this seems to be refuted by the entry in the historical address book of Dresden.
  7. ↑ Today is the "Friedrichstrasse 29", house number "46".
  8. ^ Address book Dresden 1877, SLUB p. 22 [3]
  9. ↑ Bernd Hünlich: Paula Modersohn-Becker and her birthplace: the painter was born in Dresden on February 8, 110 years ago. Dresdener Kunstblätter, 20 (1986), 2, pp. 8-15
  10. ↑ Barbara Beuys : Paula Modersohn-Becker or: when art is life. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20835-3 , pp. 68-69.
  11. ↑ Historical address books. Entries from the address book Bremen 1904 [4]
  12. ↑ The old guard road. www.bremen-history.de [5]
  13. ↑ The house was designed by the architect Heinrich Müller . The building served as the domicile and wine shop of the Ludwig von Kapff family ; it was near the Weser bridge and was destroyed in 1944.
  14. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Becker (born January 4, 1773 in Oberlichtenau ; † October 21, 1847 in Kiev )
  15. ^ Address book Dresden 1877, SLUB, p. 22 [6]
  16. ↑ Other information on the result is today's house number "48": Paula Modersohn-Becker, later known as a painter, spent her childhood in this house. [7] .
  17. ↑ Mathilde had two of the brothers, Günther (* November 24, 1839; † August 21, 1889) and Wulf (* May 12, 1847; † April 4, 1907), Paula's mother were merchants and plantation owners on Java ( Dutch- India ). Her brother Wulf and his New Zealand wife Cornelia (Cora for short) von Bültzingslöwen, née Hill (* 1852), came to Dresden in 1880 with their six-year-old son Freddy. His family was wealthy. Her brother later lived with Cora von Bültzingslöwen in Berlin-Schlachtensee .
  18. ↑ Mathilde's father attended war school in Erfurt when he was 19 . He then became an officer and joined the Lübeck battalion. His sister Caroline von Bültzingslöwen took over the management of the officer's household and retained this position after Ferdinand's marriage in 1837 to the Holstein girl Emilie Lange from Plön . Mathilde's grandfather was the former captain Günther Karl Wilhelm von Bültzingslöwen (* 1755 in Haynrode , † 1822 in Lübeck), who had settled in Lübeck and worked here as a technical drawing teacher.
  19. ↑ QUERY online archive catalog of the Basel-Stadt State Archives. [8th]
  20. ^ Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1998, ISBN 0-8101-1644-8 , p. 438
  21. ↑ Dr. med. Kurt Becker-Glauch, medical examiner (born April 27, 1873 in Chemnitz) emigrated with his wife from Bremen to Switzerland during the time of National Socialism in Germany , emigration and evidence, passport register [9]
  22. ↑ Asmus Nitschke: The 'Erbpolizei' in National Socialism: On the everyday history of the health authorities in the Third Reich. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2013, ISBN 3-3229-0381-8 , p. 151, including footnotes
  23. ↑ Ursula Büttner, Angelika Voss-Louis: New beginning on ruins: The diaries of Bremen Mayor Theodor Spitta 1945-1947. Vol. 13 Biographical Sources for Contemporary History, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-4867-0809-0 , p. 133, including footnotes
  24. ↑ Resting place Friedhof Bremen-Riensberg, (No. in the cemetery plan: U0265A) [10]
  25. ^ Archives of the Rohland family. In: Online archive catalog of the Basel-Stadt State Archives. [11]
  26. ↑ Barbara Beuys: Paula Modersohn-Becker or: when art is life. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20835-3 , p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Carl Woldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Беккер, Карл Вольдемар (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Railway engineer and father of Paula Modersohn-Becker
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1901
Place of death Bremen