Ernst Stiller

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Ernst Stiller

Ernst Wilhelm August Stiller (born September 10, 1844 in Rostock , † January 15, 1907 murdered in Lübeck ) was a businessman, deputy director of a private bank, member of the German Reichstag and the citizens of Lübeck .

Life

origin

Ernst Stiller, a descendant of Carl Christoph Stiller , was born the son of a respected Rostock businessman and was the oldest of several siblings .

career

Stiller attended the large city school in Rostock , became a merchant and worked in Rostock until 1865. Like other young merchants, he took a longer stay abroad after completing his training. He worked in Le Havre ( France ) and London ( England ) to broaden his perspective and to get to know foreign conditions. From there he went to Amoy on the Chinese coast. After the First Opium War , which was ended by the Treaty of Nanjing , this developed into a contractual port open to Great Britain and became its main export port for tea .

On the way back to Rostock eight years later, he came to Lübeck in 1875. When the opportunity arose here to open a grain store, he decided to settle down as a merchant and established the Ernst Stiller company in the Beckergrube .

When director Wilhelm Spiegeler, who as managing director together with co-director Hermann Otte formed the responsible board member of Commerz-Bank , suddenly died on May 10, 1893, the previous second director was essentially given sole responsibility for managing the bank on an interim basis. The supervisory board elected Stiller from January 1, 1894, for Krafft Tesdorpf, who was leaving the board at the end of the financial year, as the second director on the board of the bank. The commercial law , particularly the banking sector , were now on its steady reading .

Merchant class in Lübeck

Since 1877 Stiller belonged to the Lübeck merchant class . At their meeting on June 23, 1882, they elected in place of the outgoing members August Heinrich Peter Wohlert, Hermann Lange and Friedrich Heinrich Bertling Carl Alfred Brattström with 43, Heinrich Gaedertz with 52 and him with 58 votes to the Chamber of Commerce forming its board . In the Chamber he was elected to the Committee for Shipping Affairs in place of Georg Wilhelm Stange (Stange & Lüders), who was leaving there . In rotation he resigned in July 1887. In 1890 he was re-elected to the Chamber of Commerce. In June 1892, the Chamber elected him to replace Bertling, who had resigned, as its second deputy president . However, on May 29, 1894, he resigned from his position because of an “overflow with professional business” . Georg Eduard Tegtmeyer was elected as his successor. In Hamburg on November 14, 1895, a meeting between representatives of the Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck chambers of commerce took place on the draft of a new commercial code . In response to the letter from Hamburg of November 9th, the local Chamber of Commerce sent its President Lange and its members Petit and Stiller to the meeting. At the meeting on June 17, Hans Carl Wilhelm Eschenburg, Eduard Friedrich Ewers and Rudolf Thiel were proposed for the member who duly resigned from the Chamber of Commerce on June 26, 1896 . On July 16, 1897, on July 16, 1897, at the meeting of the merchants' association , August Pape submitted a motion for a commission to be set up for preliminary advice on the reorganization of the merchant's rules and rules of procedure . It should consist of six members each from the Chamber of Commerce and six members of the business community. The application was accepted and John Suckau , Emil Possehl , Heinrich Thiel , Pape, Stiller and Friedrich Wilhelm Mangels were elected as members of the commission.

The chairman of the Senate Commission, Heinrich Mann , the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Hermann Lange, and Stiller, as chairman of the Grain Traders Association, went to the Hanseatic cities to inspect the port facilities there in terms of their suitability and costs for traffic Hamburg and Bremen .

On November 7, 1890, the Chamber of Commerce suggested calling a conference of delegates from the seaside cities to other commercial cities. Since the appeal would run into difficulties, the chamber sent its members Fehling and Stiller to Berlin . At a decisive point, they should explain the disadvantages that arise from the differential tariffs for Lübeck's trade and traffic. On November 11, 1890, she and the delegates from Danzig , Stettin and Königsberg were received there by Minister Karl Heinrich von Boetticher .

At the meeting of the Agricultural Association in the Hanseatic City in 1889, Stiller suggested the establishment of an official test station for field seeds there.

The Chamber of Commerce proposed the establishment of a joint commission of merchants and the Chamber of Commerce for the new buildings on the quay . It should be made up of members of the Chamber and the merchants in equal parts. At the meeting of the merchants' union on June 23, 1904, the proposal was accepted and among other members Pape James Bertling Jr., Carl Samuel Wilhelm Lüth, Consul Suckau, bank director Stiller and Dimpker were elected to the commission.

Stiller was chairman of the supervisory board of the Lübeck canning factory. DH Carstens AG .

As their advisor, Stiller was a member of the management of the Koch shipyard . Henry Koch , founder of the shipyard, appointed him and Peter Rehder as executors and asset managers . After his death Stiller was on the Supervisory Board once founded by the deceased and 1902 by the Argo Reederei acquired Hanseatic steamship company specified that instead.

Public life

In a foreign country, Stiller had come to know and appreciate the advantages of free trade . He had a keen interest in the local political life of the city and nobody fought harder and more relentlessly against the supporters of the protective tariff . A brilliant rhetoric helped him to captivate his fellow citizens. In July 1880 he was elected to the board of the Lübeck Progressive Society.

In the following year, Stiller was put up as a candidate for the general election by the German Progress Party . When electoral district II ( Marien-Magdalenen Quartier ) was elected on June 28, 480 (57%) of the 837 eligible voters had voted . He was elected to the Lübeck citizenship with 233 votes .

The Senate voted on December 2, 1882 Joh. Christ. Reinboth (Couleur Factory) and Stiller in place of the departing Christ. Heinr. Wilh. Bohl (Guard Riders ret. ) And Reinboth as civil deputy in the Einquartierungs Commission of the city. When Stiller left in 1888, Ad. Ernst Friedrich Böhl von Faber ( landowner on Neuhof ) elected to the office.

For the procurement of funds for the Elbe-Trave Canal Stiller was one of the 1,892 employed Commission on. In 1893 the citizens decided to set up a secret commission to advise and co-approve a contract to be concluded with Prussia for the construction of an Elbe-Trave canal. Stiller was elected as one of its 15 members. At the general assembly of the Canal Association on May 23, 1894, Stiller was the first deputy to the chairman, Fehling, who was absent at the time.

In the supplementary election in the 1st constituency ( Jakobi Quartier and the suburb of St. Gertrud ) on June 16, 1893, 617 (68%) of the 919 eligible voters had voted. Stiller was not elected with just one vote.

On October 17, 1896, the Senate elected Stiller to replace the deceased Carl Hinrich Friedrich Buck as a civil deputy at the high school authorities . Here he worked for the departments for the teachers' seminar. On October 22, 1902, the bourgeois deputy was confirmed in his position. After his death, Heinrich Friedrich Freytag was elected in his place.

When the fourth electoral district ( Johannis Quartier and the suburb of St. Jürgen ) was elected on June 28, 1897, 866 (70%) of the 1,242 eligible voters had voted. Stiller was set up by the Father City Association and was elected to the Lübeck citizenship with 560 votes. His work in almost all commissions of the governing bodies was considered unparalleled. In it the power of initiative combined with the ability to convincingly represent an opinion. At the neighborhood assembly of the Father City Association for the Johannis Quartier and the suburb of St. Jürgen on June 5, 1903, he was again put up as a candidate for the citizenship election and he was re-elected. Stiller has now to 1905 for the first spokesman of the Parliament elected.

At the end of 1897, Wilhelm Christian Cuwie , Wilhelm Brehmer , Hermann Baethcke , Theodor Sartori and Stiller were elected as civil members of the joint commission for the tendering of the imperial monument . Johannes Daniel Benda and Julius Vermehren were appointed as substitutes for this . You should opt for a massive Uechtritz Kaiser Wilhelm monument . It was only Eduard Kulenkamp , chairman of the Society of Friends of Art , who succeeded in “liberating” the city from this. Kulenkamp was granted recognition by being appointed to the new commission for building regulations for an imperial monument.

In July 1898 Stiller was elected to the citizens' committee for two years in place of a constitutionally resigning member . The same happened in 1902. In 1906 Stiller was the committee's spokesman.

In 1901 and 1902, Stiller was elected to the so-called finance commissions as a member of the citizenship.

Parliament

When asked by his friends, Stiller accepted the candidacy of a member of the Progressive Party for the Reichstag during his first legislative term . With the votes of the Social Democrats , who were the local opposition to Otto von Bismarck , Stiller won the runoff election on November 11, 1884 with 5,647 against Hermann Wilhelm Fehling of the Free Conservative Party with 5,437 votes with a turnout of 78% with 13,876 eligible voters and was named Free-spirited representative of the Lübeck Reichstag constituency elected to the Reich Parliament.

In his parliamentary group there , he was considered one of the most capable and experienced men the Free State had in the Reichstag in the field of trade policy. His knowledge of economic policy and his excellent eloquence underpinned the mandate holder's reputation . At the beginning of December 1884 he spoke out against it in the Reichstag when it was deliberating on the steam subsidy bill. At the request of the Lübeck parliamentarian and member of the Wood Customs Commission, on March 9, 1885, the latter proposed a tariff reduction of 50% for sawn veneers and 15% for wood products .

When he could no longer stand up in 1887, Fehling, now a member of the National Liberal Party , took his place there. For now, Stiller was only in the agitation for the election of members of the Reichstag participate .

Relieved of his parliamentary duties, he renounced political life more and more and turned to purely urban affairs. His public life was now devoted to the local politics of Lübeck and the development of local industry and trade .

Commercial judge

Stiller earned greater merits than in the political field as a commercial judge and expert on important commercial issues. He always prepared thoroughly for the meetings there and those in the arbitration tribunal . On the basis of section 29 of the ordinance of February 3, 1879, which concerns the implementation of the Courts Constitution Act, the Senate appointed Hermann Deecke (Deecke and Boldemann ), Wilhelm Heinrich Heyke (partner in PF Lange & Knuth), Petit, Paul Ernst Reimpell (company PE Reimpell ), Stiller and Tegtmeyer (Tegtmeyer & Co.) as commercial judges at the Chamber for Commercial Matters at the Lübeck Regional Court for the financial years 1889, 1890 and 1891. In November 1891, the Senate extended the appointment of all, only Deecke was replaced by Pape and a further three Years.

Society for the promotion of charitable activities

Stiller was accepted as a full member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on March 22, 1892 . She elected him in November 1896 as head of society. At the meeting on November 13, 1900, in addition to building director Gustav Schaumann , bank director Stiller was elected to the editorial committee of the Lübeckische Blätter , the society's newsletter and also the magazine for Lübeck . The newly elected took part in this for the first time on November 20th. On November 19, 1901, Stiller was elected to replace the resigning Hermann Linde as head of the women's trade school. At the meeting on May 15, 1906, he was elected as the company's representative on the board of the commercial apprentice home .

On October 1, 1899, a reading hall was opened by the association “Public Reading Hall in Lübeck” at Mengstraße 10 . At its general meeting on October 23, 1899, the association was expanded by several members, one of whom was Stiller.

assassination

Betty Frederike Schulz, born on Jan 27, 1868 in Salzwedel , once worked as a nurse for Director Stiller's. When Stiller ended the employment relationship , she believed that she had been wrongly dismissed and that she still had demands on him. She chased him from then on. This culminated in her harassing him in the stock exchange. A few hours later she wrote to Senator Eduard Rabe to apologize for her behavior. She stated that she did not know how she came to harass a man like the director in such a way. After all, he would have done her so many benefits, paved her all ways and tried to encourage her in every way possible. Part of the letter was brought to Stiller's knowledge.

Stiller took the help of the police in order to protect him in the future against harassment of this kind in public. At the same time, he initiated criminal proceedings against them for threat and insult . When she was placed under surveillance, moved its residence to Dresden .

When Ms. Schulz did not show up for the trial date , a compulsory demonstration was ordered and a profile was issued for this purpose. When she, who was already mentally ill at the time, learned of the orders, she made a decision. When she returned to Lübeck, where she was staying and from whom she bought her revolver , could not be found out.

seen from St.-Annen-Straße

When the director went from his apartment at 18 Friedrich Wilhelmstrasse to the bank at the usual time , he met Senator Rabe halfway there. Stiller continued with him along the row of houses on the left-hand sidewalk through Mühlenstrasse . When passing the converging St.-Annen-Straße , Ms. Schulz stepped out of it and shot him twice. The second bullet penetrated, as Dr. Hartmann noted through his right eye in the head. When the senator, who was walking on the curb next to the director, took her a few steps back with his umbrella, she held the gun against her right temple and fired a third time.

She died about a quarter of an hour later. Her body was taken to the stables .

burial

On the morning of January 19, 1907, the funeral ceremonies for the murdered took place in the chapel on the Allgemeine Gottesacker . His out-of-town wife, sister and nephew had traveled to this place.

The Senate was represented by Johann Georg Eschenburg , permanent commissioner for negotiations with the citizens, and Johann Paul Leberecht Strack , the youngest member of the Senate, and numerous other members of the Senate. The entire Presidium ( Heinrich Görtz , Max Jenne , Max Buchwald) and its attorney, Emanuel Fehling , appeared from the citizenship . The citizens' committee was represented by the two deputy spokesmen Franz Heinr. Paul Ziehl and Cuwie represented by the secretary Friedrich Bruns . Numerous members of both bodies were also present.

Director Otte from Commerz-Bank was there and the chairman of its supervisory board was Gotth. Joach. Georg Schwartzkopf and the senators Johann Heinrich Evers and Eduard Friedrich Ewers as well as Richard Piehl were delegated as its members.

From the third state it proved Major General Wigand von Gersdorff of, commander commands the 81st Infantry Brigade in Lübeck, and the officer corps of the local regiment through their participation last respects.

All directors of the local banking institutions, the management or owners represented the Koch'sche Werft, the canning factory and the blast furnace plant and the teaching staff of the schools were represented.

Senior Leopold Friedrich Ranke introduced his mourning service by mentioning the deed before he went into the benefits of the work of the deceased , which served the general public. The chapel was crowded and as the coffin left them lined countless, who joined him, the way to his grave at the large central roundabout of the cemetery . At the grave, his wife impressed those present with a spontaneous inspiration, kneeling in a silent prayer accompanied by the hammer blows from the nearby Koch shipyard.

Two hours later, Betty Schulz, who had previously been laid out in the stables , was buried. The burial followed from the morgue of the stables. At the overpass, onlookers waited at the exit at the castle gate . In addition to the official corpse escort, only her former legal advisor , Leopold Jacobsohn, and an employee of the "Lübeckische Advertisements" were present as guests when she was buried in the northernmost part of the Gottesackers.

References

Web links

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The bank was founded in 1856 as a credit and insurance bank and renamed Commerz-Bank in Lübeck on June 1, 1859 . Because of the similarity with the Commerzbank , it was named Handelsbank in Lübeck in 1940 . A few years before the bank became part of Deutsche Bank , its name changed to Deutsche Bank Lübeck .
  2. ↑ After the death of Senator Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorpf were appointed guardians of five children who were left behind. Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he would later receive the Nobel Prize , we meet the Krafft Tesdorpf as Stephan Kistenmaker . See Buddenbrooks - Real Name Directory .
  3. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th volume, number 71, edition of September 3, 1893, p. 416.
  4. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 1, edition of January 3, 1894, p. 4.
  5. ^ Assembly of the merchants. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 24, number 51, edition dated June 25, 1882, pp. 301-302.
  6. ↑ Chamber of Commerce. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 25, number 51, edition of June 27, 1883, pp. 299-300.
  7. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 29, number 44, edition of June 1, 1887, p. 236.
  8. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 34, number 51, edition of June 26, 1892, p. 304.
  9. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 36, number 43, edition of May 30, 1894, p. 300.
  10. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 98, edition of December 11, 1895, pp. 618–619.
  11. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 38, number 38, edition of June 28, 1896, pp. 284–285.
  12. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 39, number 29, edition of July 18, 1897, p. 358.
  13. ↑ New port facilities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 32, number 52, edition of April 20, 1890, p. 199.
  14. ↑ The differential tariff is a tariff that varies depending on the country of origin for goods of the same type.
  15. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 32, number 91, edition of November 12, 1890, p. 590.
  16. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 31, number 100, edition of December 15, 1889, p. 586.
  17. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 46, number 26, edition of June 26, 1904, p. 395.
  18. ↑ The executors Ernst Stiller (1844−1907) and Peter Rehder (1843−1920) in Die "Schiffswert von Henry Koch AG" - A Chapter Lübeck Shipbuilding and Industrial History by Heinz Haaker, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven 1994, Ernst-Kabel-Verlag , ISBN 3-8225-0299-5 , pp. 36-37
  19. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 31, number 29, edition of April 10, 1889, p. 168.
  20. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 22, number 57, edition of July 18, 1880, p. 336.
  21. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 23, number 42, edition of May 25, 1881, p. 288.
  22. ↑ citizenship election. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 23, number 52, edition of June 29, 1881, p. 300.
  23. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 24, number 98, edition dated December 6, 1882, p. 586.
  24. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 30, number 102, edition of December 19, 1888, p. 614.
  25. ↑ Citizens' Committee. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th vol., Number 6, edition of January 18, 1893, pp. 34–35.
  26. ^ General meeting of the Canal Association. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 36, number 42, edition of May 27, 1894, pp. 295-296.
  27. ↑ citizenship election. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 35, number 49, edition of June 18, 1893, pp. 286–287.
  28. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 38, number 55, edition of October 25, 1896, p. 433.
  29. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 44, number 44, edition of November 2, 1902, p. 553.
  30. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 7, edition of February 17, 1907, p. 95.
  31. ↑ citizenship election. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 39, number 26, edition of June 27, 1897, pp. 329-330.
  32. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 22, edition of June 7, 1903, p. 303.
  33. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 27, edition of July 5, 1903, p. 348.
  34. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 40, number 2, edition of January 9, 1898, p. 15.
  35. ^ Association of Art Friends. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 67, number 6, edition of February 9, 1902, p. 68.
  36. ↑ Local Notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 40, number 30, edition of July 24, 1898, p. 372.
  37. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 293.
  38. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 26, number 92, edition of November 16, 1884, p. 564.
  39. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 26, number 97, edition of December 3, 1884, p. 591.
  40. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 27, number 21, edition of March 11, 1885, p. 116.
  41. ↑ The Free Conservative Party merged with other parties in the National Liberal Party.
  42. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 30, number 98, edition of November 5, 1888, pp. 589-590.
  43. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; 33rd volume, number 92, edition of November 18, 1891, p. 548.
  44. ^ Society z. Bef. Charitable activity. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 34, number 24, edition of March 23, 1892, p. 139.
  45. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 38, number 58, edition of November 15, 1896, pp. 471-472.
  46. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 42, number 47, edition of November 18, 1900, p. 611.
  47. ^ Activity report of the editorial committee of the Lübeckische Blätter. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 43, number 25, edition of June 23, 1901, pp. 312-313.
  48. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 43, number 47, edition of November 24, 1901, p. 591.
  49. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 48, number 21, edition of May 27, 1906, pp. 297-298.
  50. ^ Association "Public Reading Hall in Lübeck". , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 42, number 18, edition of April 29, 1900, pp. 234-236.
  51. ↑ The funeral of Mr. Stiller. , in Lübeckische advertisements , vol. 157, Abend-Blatt, No. 34, edition of January 19, 1907.
personal data
SURNAME Stiller, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiller, Ernst Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1907
Place of death Lübeck