Christian Barnewitz

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Christian Walter Barnewitz (born December 29, 1927 in Dresden ; † May 2, 2011 in Radebeul ) was a German miller , businessman , freemason and entrepreneur .

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House Barnewitz, on the right the duplicate of the millstone fountain on the White Ross
Barnewitz's coat of arms on the entrance gate post

Barnewitz was a master miller and had been a member of the FDP since his young age . On January 1, 1987, he took over the Muskator-Werke in Düsseldorf as a partner and managed it.

Barnewitz was partner and managing director of Muskator-Werke until he sold his share in the company in 2001. The Muskator takeover was made possible by the close friendship with the owner Hermann Schmidt, the previous head of the Muskator company, and the friendship of their wives. After the reunification of Germany in 1990, Barnewitz ensured that the Muskator-Werke acquired and expanded the Riesa plant and that numerous other properties and a hotel in Riesa became the property of the Muskatorwerke.

Barnewitz was already a Freemason in the Düsseldorf region until he co-founded the two lodges on the golden apple and on the three swords and Asträa zum greening diamond in Dresden . From 1990 to 1998 he successfully and decisively campaigned before the property offices and the Dresden Administrative Court to ensure that the original Masonic house in Dresden was transferred back to the re-established Masonic lodges.

Barnewitz was in his second marriage to Vivian Barnewitz, geb. Hoffert, married and had two daughters from his first marriage and a son from his second marriage. In his final years he lived on a listed 17th-century winery in Niederlößnitz , the Barnewitz house , which had belonged to his father, a secret councilor, from 1932 to 1952 and which he repurchased in the early 1990s.

In 2008, as chairman of the Freemason Foundation Dresden, he officially inaugurated the millstone fountain on the Weißen Ross in Radebeul , which is supposed to commemorate the seven former water mills in the Lößnitzgrund . Followed in 2009 in Dresden the market Fraubrunnen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Barnewitz: Obituary notice in the Leipziger Volkszeitung
  2. ↑ DLG-Mitteilungen, Volume 106, 1991, p. 15 Online
  3. ^ Christian Barnewitz obituary in the Sächsische Zeitung
  4. ↑ Bettina Klemm: The first look into the new temple of the Freemasons  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Sächsische Zeitung of March 28, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / secure.sz-online.de  
  5. ^ Inauguration of the millstone fountain on the White Horse
  6. ^ Obituary in the Radebeul Official Gazette, June 2011, p. 3
  7. ^ Christian Barnewitz from the Dresden Freemasons Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Barnewitz, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnewitz, Christian Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miller, businessman, freemason and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2011
Place of death Radebeul