David Born

David Born (born October 30, 1817 in Lissa, Posen district , today: Leszno ; † March 17, 1879 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; actually: David Buttermilch ) was a writer , urban developer and property speculator in the Berlin area.

Life

Next to Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , Born was the most important person in the development of what is now the southwest of Berlin. The area between the Grunewald and the Tempelhofer Feld around the villages of Steglitz , Wilmersdorf and Schöneberg was pure arable land until the establishment of the German Empire . With the victory over France and the start of the Wilhelminian era , the heyday of property speculation began , which promised rapid profits in the Teltow district with the establishment of villa and country house colonies. While Carstenn became known for founding the Lichterfelde settlement and with his Berlin-Charlottenburger Bau-Verein also owned land in the area between Schöneberg and Steglitz, Born parceled out with the help of the Land Acquisition and Construction Association he founded on Actien (im Founding supervisory board including Wilhelm Fröauf , Johann Carl Hacker and Hermann Hähnel ) this area, where the country house colony Friedenau was created - the name is reminiscent of the Peace of Frankfurt , which ended the Franco-Prussian War and was created by Auguste Hähnel, the wife of the builder of that association , Hermann Hähnel. During Born's lifetime, the place had the character of a residential area, in line with his credo that the new suburbs should become Berlin's green lungs . Soon after his death, however, apartment buildings were built there, which still determine the character of the district, which currently has over 28,000 inhabitants.

David Born was the brother of Stephan Born and the great-uncle of Max Born , who later won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 .

In Berlin-Friedenau, Bornstrasse has been a reminder of the urban developer since September 5, 1889.

Works (selection)

• Protective tariff or free trade? Guild or freedom of trade? Berlin 1849
• The where from and where to of the customs protection . Berlin 1851
• Germany's defensive struggle against France in 1870 . Louis Gerschel, 1870
• To the question of housing . In: Vossische Zeitung , May 1871

literature

• Thomas Wolfes: The villa colony of Lichterfelde: on the history of a Berlin suburb (1865–1920) , Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin, 1997
• Hermann Ebling, Evelyn Weissberg: Friedenau tells: Stories from a Berlin suburb - 1871 to 1914 , edition Friedenauer Brücke, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-9811242-1-7 .
• Otto Glagau: The stock market and start-up fraud in Berlin, 7th Berlin building stories . In: The Gazebo . Issue 26, 1875, pp. 438-440 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).