Ernst Boie
Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Jürgen Boie (born December 21, 1863 in Lübeck ; † November 16, 1930 ibid) was a German wholesale merchant , politician and Estonian consul.
Life
origin
Ernst was born the son of a civil servant at the Lübeck gas works that were established in the middle of the 19th century .
career
After school Boie started as an apprentice in the company Marty & Co . After several years he had worked there a position of trust, has been a partner and later owner of the plot . Its name was changed to Ernst Boie in 1898 . In 1899 he became a member of the merchant class . At the corner of Kanalstrasse 24 and Rosenpforte , today's administration building was built by the architect Carl Mühlenpfordt in the style of the north German homeland security . Already in 1907 she elected him to the Chamber of Commerce . She formed the board of the merchants. The Praeses presided over the Presidium of the Chamber .
With foresight, he recognized the technical development of traffic at the time and, connected with it, the importance of liquid fuel and operating resources for it. Petroleum , gasoline , oil and "Erbojol" became the main products and Ernst Boie was founded as an oil wholesaler, freight forwarding and insurance company and quickly blossomed. The company opened its first petrol station in 1925. When Boie died, one saw his Erbojol gas stations everywhere in northern Germany - Mecklenburg , Schleswig-Holstein province up to Flensburg , Oldenburg etc.
After the election of the Lübeck Consul of Württemberg and President of the Chamber in the Senate , Carl Dimpker , Boie was elected as his successor on December 14, 1920. He held this office alternately with Hermann Eschenburg . His third term would have ended on December 31, 1930. As President he had always put his skills and commercial knowledge to promote trade , shipping and traffic at the service of the Chamber. In the further development of domestic and foreign policy questions, he saw the renewal of the empire in long and safe work . So an evolution instead of a revolution . Since 1908 he was a member of the citizens' committee and later became its spokesman, assessor in the merchant court and member of the municipal fire insurance fund. In the Chamber of Commerce he was a member of numerous committees , such as the Committee of Elders, Transport Committee, Committee for Social Policy , Treasury Committee, Committee for Port Goods Management, Committee for Office and Library and the Stock Exchange Court of Honor . He was also in the administration of Lübeck-Segeberger railway , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lübeck-line and member of the Supervisory Board of Lübeck Vyborg Shipping Company .
On January 7, 1902, Boie was accepted as a full member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . In 1906 he was elected as a civil deputy in the St. Jürgen Tax Commission . There he held important honorary posts, such as the bourgeois deputy in the head of the lunatic asylum , head of the seaman's fund and, since March 24, 1914, in place of the retired Herrmann Weber, head of the savings and loan fund . He was also a member of the Lübeck Regional Association of the Red Cross and a member of the general committee of the cooperative for voluntary nursing during the war.
The reputation Boies than economists went beyond the boundaries of the city, and took place outside of Luebeck widespread recognition and attention. He was a member of the State Railway Council Hamburg, the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the Reich Waterways Advisory Board, the Sea and Waterways Advisory Board, the Elbe Waterways Advisory Board, the Transport and Postal Committee of the German Industry and Trade Day and many more.
In the township elections on November 19, 1907, Boie was elected for the Johannis Quartier and St. Jürgen in the Lübeck township , where he was to stay for 16 years. From 1922 he was a member of the tax authorities until he left the following year .
When Mayor Neumann had to resign on June 2, 1926 due to the vote of no confidence in the citizenship the day before, large circles of the bourgeois parties approached him with the request that he take over the chairmanship and leadership of the newly founded Hanseatic Volksbund . Aware that his views and principles were difficult to reconcile with the political methods of the post-war period, he accepted the post. On the floor of the "sober reality 'standing, who promised parliamentary leader in the citizenship only what he was able to maintain and led the federal government through all the perils and difficulties of this penetrated by political and economic crises time.
The Free State of Estonia appointed Boie its consul in the Hanseatic city in 1928 .
Sports
In the years when the sport was still considered to be limitlessly superfluous in Germany, Boie was already passionate about rowing .
When the Lübeck gymnastics club dissolved its rowing team in 1884 and agreed to leave their boat equipment to a newly founded club, Boie stepped over with a small group of young men and founded the Lübeck rowing society (LRG) in February 1885. Participated in the development of the young club from the very beginning and took on board duties - first as a cashier , later as a rowing and boat attendant. Since 1901 he has been the second chairman and from 1912 to 1924 the first chairman of the oldest rowing club in Lübeck. After his retirement on his 60th birthday in 1924, the latter unanimously elected him as honorary chairman.
Boie was already active as a racing rower in 1885 and that year helped to win the first regatta victory for his club in Schwerin .
In addition, used Boie long time, the migrant rowing . Not avoiding the hardships , he still took part in the long-distance rides of the rowing company as a mature man. In 1911 he took part in the journey on the Lahn and Moselle rivers and in 1913 in a nine-day Danube journey from Ulm to Vienna . A few months before his death he had taken part in a 1½ day trip to Ratzeburg .
Of course, youth sport was welcomed and promoted by him . The development of the Lübeck student rowing teams and the creation of the rowing society's student boat house proved his active support. The founding of the Lübeck Ladies Rowing Society in 1907 showed that he progressed with his time and showed understanding for the emerging women's sport .
A great sporting idea from Boie, the founding of the Lübeck regatta club , could only be realized after the First World War . Nothing could better demonstrate his reputation, the trust placed in his management, than the fact that he was placed at its head as the successor to General Curt von Morgen .
family
In St. Jakobi , Boie had married his wife Emmy, a née Ruß.
His daughter married the entrepreneur Kurt Heydel. Boie also joined his son-in-law, Boie & Heydel's company .
Less than a week after Lübeck said goodbye to Senator Strack with a memorial service in St. Marien , she did so on November 20, 1930 to another of her important sons.
literature
- Ernst Boie, President of the Chamber of Commerce. ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1920/21, No. 8, edition of January 1, 1921, p. 31.
- Consul Ernst Boie. In: Lübeckische Advertisements Volume 118, No. 269, 2nd sheet, daily report, edition of November 17, 1930.
- Consul Ernst Boie †. In: General-Anzeiger , 2nd Supplement - Lübeck Affairs, No. 270, edition of November 18, 1930.
- Consul Ernst Boie †. ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1930/31, No. 4, issue of November 22, 1930, p. 13.
- Consul Ernst Boie †. , In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 72, No. 47, edition of November 23, 1930, pp. 781–782.
- Ernst Boie as a sportsman. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 72, No. 47, edition of November 23, 1930, pp. 782–783.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Foresight means recognizing future developments and requirements at an early stage and assessing them correctly.
- ↑ The Ernst Boie company is now run by the fourth generation under the name Boie .
- ↑ Boie's gas stations were equipped with their own company brand in the signal tones green, yellow and black.
- ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , vol. 50, number 51, edition of December 13, 1908, p. 800.
- ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , volume 44, number 2, edition of January 12, 1902, p. 16.
- ↑ Locales. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 48, number 40, edition of October 7, 1906, p. 573.
- ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , vol. 50, number 27, edition of November 24, 1908, p. 398.
- ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 54th year, number 14, edition of March 31, 1912, p. 198.
- ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , vol. 56, number 13, edition of March 29, 1914, p. 230.
- ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 49th vol., Number 47, edition of November 24, 1907, p. 656.
- ↑ Ernst Boie was distant from both agitation and sensation .
- ^ History of the KRR
- ↑ Lübeck Ladies Rowing Society ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lübecker Regatta-Verein e. V.
- ↑ Senator Paul L. Strack †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , vol. 1930/31, No. 4, edition of November 22, 1930, p. 13.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boie, serious |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boie, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Jürgen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wholesale merchant, politician and Estonian consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1930 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |