Eduard Bergmann (entrepreneur)

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Eduard Bergmann (born September 29, 1897 in Coppenbrügge , † September 6, 1973 in Hanover ) was a German businessman , association official and honorary consul of Denmark .

Life

Born at the time of the German Empire in the Lower Saxon town of Coppenbrügge as the son of a farmer , Eduard Bergmann went to Göttingen to study law, history and modern languages at the Georg-August University there , where he worked as a Dr. jur. and Dr. phil. completed.

Then Bergmann led first as General Counsel the Hanover branch of the Swedish household appliance manufacturer Electrolux .

At the time of the Weimar Republic , Bergmann's daughter Inge was born on June 30, 1927 .

At the time of the Weimar Republic and in the year of the beginning of the global economic crisis , Bergmann took over the Hanoverian electrical wholesaler Hermann Albert Bumke, which was in financial difficulties and at the time still small, in what was then Rundestrasse , which he quickly expanded to include other business areas such as plumbing and heating.

From 1933, the year the National Socialists seized power , and until his death, Bergmann was involved in the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry , interrupted only during the time this organization was dissolved, when it was re-established in 1945 and before the end of the Second World War was involved.

Main building of the Hermann Albert Bumke company on Engelbosteler Damm in the northern part of Hanover at night

Although the incendiary and high-explosive bombs had almost completely destroyed the old business buildings during the air raids on Hanover , Eduard Bergmann quickly expanded the Bumke company after the war into one of the most important wholesalers in the Federal Republic of Germany , initially at the new location on Engelbosteler Damm in Nordstadt and not finally with the help of his daughter Inge, who soon followed him in the leadership.

During the time of the British occupation zone , Eduard Bergmann became Vice President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an office that he would hold for around twenty years until 1965. At the same time and beyond, he was also a member of the IHK plenary assembly from 1946 to 1969.

Also immediately after the war, Bergmann initiated the establishment of the Lower Saxony Wholesale Association, both as a professional and employers' association . He then headed this organization as chairman for two decades and, at the same time, the Goslar wholesale training center in the Harz region .

Bergmann also worked as a member of the executive committee of the German Wholesale and Foreign Trade Association and international committees , as well as a member of the advisory board of the Lower Saxony State Bank and the supervisory board of Deutsche Messe AG . The Kingdom of Denmark appointed Bergmann to be its honorary consul.

The Annastift in Hannover-Kleefeld supported Bergmann both as a sponsor and as a member of the Board of Trustees .

After his brother's death, Bergmann took over his father's farm . Eduard Bergmann - like the consul Erich Nain - remained a member of the advisory board of the Wilhelm Busch Society until his death in 1973 .

Honors

Eduard Bergmann was honored with the following awards:

literature

  • Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix (edit.): Heimatchronik der Stadt Hannover (= Heimatchroniken der Stadt und Kreis der Bundesgebiet , Vol. 17), Köln: Archiv für Deutsche Heimatpflege, 1956
  • Franz B. Döpper : Hermann Albert Bumke / electrical and sanitary wholesaling , in ders .: Hanover and its old companies , ed. from the Association of German Economic Historians eV, 1st edition, Hamburg: Pro Historica, 1984, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , pp. 220f.
  • Rudolf Klein (Ed.): Lower Saxony Lexicon. Everything you need to know about the state of Lower Saxony , Frankfurt am Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1969, p. 26
  • Bergmann, Eduard. In: Who is who? The German Who's Who Band 17. 1971, p. 70.
  • Herbert Wenn: 125 years Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover - Hildesheim , Hanover: IHK, 1991, p. 35f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bergmann, Eduard in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on July 24, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Bergmann, Eduard. 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 , p. 52; online through google books
  3. ↑ Two obituaries in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from July 23, 2016, p. 18
  4. ^ Franz B. Döpper: Hermann Albert Bumke / Elektro- und Sanitär-Großhandlung , in ders .: Hanover and his old companies , ed. from the Association of German Economic Historians eV, 1st edition, Hamburg: Pro Historica, 1984, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , pp. 220f.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bergmann, Eduard. 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. 62.
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bumke GmbH & Co. KG, Hermann Albert, electrical, sanitary and heating wholesalers. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 97
  7. ↑ Gerda Valentin: Nordstadt / The Bumke wholesaler looks back on 100 years of existence / As a landmark, the building is almost as distinctive as the Christ Church: "Near Bumke" is what many people from Nordstadt say when they mean the southernmost corner of the E-Damm. In: Stadtanzeiger Nord , supplement to the HAZ from October 16, 2009, last accessed on July 24, 2016
  8. ↑ NN : Wilhelm-Busch-Jahrbuch , 1974, p. 78; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, association official and Danish honorary consul
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Coppenbrugge
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1973
Place of death Hanover