Ferdinand Kindermann (industrialist)

Ferdinand Kindermann

Ferdinand Kindermann (born June 19, 1848 in Stettin ; † November 10, 1919 in Waldsieversdorf ) was a German industrialist and the founder of the community of Waldsieversdorf in what is now the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg .

Live and act

Kindermann was born in Stettin in 1848 as the son of the brickworks owner Heinrich Kindermann and his wife Caroline Daberkow. In 1883, his father had already died, he bought a factory for roofing felt , which he sold again at a profit after only six years. After the sale of this company and his house in Stettin, he had liquid funds and was looking for an investment opportunity in 1889. Kindermann moved to Berlin and found out from the newspaper that a mill and other land were to be foreclosed in the Sieversdorf desert . The small town was first mentioned in a document on April 18, 1253 as villam Sifridisdorf . In 1437 a priest mill appeared in another document. Since April 14, 1856, Sieversdorf desert was an independent municipality. The region was considered a preferred hunting area and was under the influence of Edmund von Flemming . His administrator Hätzold from Buckow reported regularly to the count. Kindermann took a liking to her after a visit to the community and without further ado acquired the priests' mill and 250 acres of land. Kindermann made contact with Hätzold and was on its suggestion from the District of Steinrück with effect from 15 August 1890 for provisional community leaders appointed Desert Sievers village. Kindermann immediately began marketing the parcels and placed advertisements for them in Vorwärts . This aroused the suspicion of the landlords, who saw their previously untouched, lucrative hunting idyll endangered. They covered Kindermann with a number of lawsuits , including forgery of documents , offenses in the hunt and resistance to state power. He, in turn, resisted the proceedings and was awarded rights in all proceedings , even if it was only in the last instance . In 1892 he was removed from office. Nevertheless, for reasons unknown until now, he managed to remove resistance to his development plans: in 1893 he sold the first parcels. He published his experiences in 1894 in a 111-page document with the title: “No rights !: My fight against bureaucracy. How a Royal Prussian District Administrator and German Conservative member of the Reichstag thwarted the establishment of rural homesteads as 'publicly dangerous impulses'. A contribution to the depopulation of the flat country presumably in favor of illegal hunting pleasure ”. He officially founded the planned colony on September 1, 1895, although it is still unclear whether there was a special reason for this date.

Water tower

Kindermann developed a plan how the acquired land should be divided up according to his ideas: In addition to smaller parcels, he divided the area, especially around the Großer Däbersee, into larger plots that offered space for villas . Around 50 houses were built over the next ten years. He planned - without the help of an architect - a bakery, a butcher, an inn and a small supermarket. A school building was also planned, in which lessons were already taking place in 1897. In order to supply the population with drinking water, he built the eleven meter high water tower on a hill in 1897 . He had groundwater pumped there, which came to the surface in an artesian spring from the Roten Luch von der Stöbber . He drove the pump with water power . In 1902, Kindermann praised in the Vossische Zeitung : "De-icing systems are not required for this ingenious practical water pipe, since Scherling's analysis shows that the water does not contain iron, but is of excellent quality." Kindermann began building villas in 1905. His first work is still preserved today in the Seestrasse. The purchase contracts for the plots were given passages with which Kindermann ensured the character of a climatic health resort . For example, production facilities that caused disruptive emissions were prohibited, as were hospitals and medical institutions. Kindermann built this himself by having the Waldsieversdorf sanatorium built for his daughter Margarete from 1906 to 1908 . She ran the house together with her doctor from Waldsieversdorf, who was married in 1899, Otto Friedrich. Her guests include Julius Carl Raschdorff , Hans Fallada and Karl Liebknecht . On June 19, 1906, the connection to a small railway line from Müncheberg to Buckow followed, with which Kindermann increased the accessibility of his village. This was preceded by a dispute with those responsible in Buckow, who initially refused to allow him to stop and only gave in when he threatened to build a branch line to Rehfelde at his own expense . On January 26, 1907, on his initiative, the name was changed from Desert-Sieversdorf to Wald-Sieversdorf .

Foundling with the relief of Kindermann in Waldsieversdorf

Kindermann died in 1919, eleven years after his wife Anna. Both graves are in the Waldsieversdorf cemetery. They left behind a daughter Margarete, after whom Kindermann named the water source of "his" place in Margaretenquelle .

For his 160th birthday on June 19, 2008, the community inaugurated a boulder with a bronze relief of Kindermann in the presence of Johanna Wanka . It bears the lettering “F. Kindermann ”as well as the years“ 1848-1919 ”and was funded in neighboring Müncheberg. The roughly one billion year old stone consists of granite porphyry , comes from Åland and came to the region in the Saale complex .

literature

• Waldsieversdorf community (ed.): Waldsieversdorf in der Märkische Schweiz, 1253, 1895, 1995. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the villa colony, brochure without date, p. 74.
• Ferdinand Kindermann: No rights !: My fight against bureaucracy. How a royal Prussian district administrator and German-conservative member of the Reichstag thwarted the establishment of rural homes as "publicly dangerous impulses". A contribution to the depopulation of the flat country presumably in favor of illegal hunting pleasure. Self-published, 1894, p. 111.
• Tourist information of Waldsieversdorf: The historical water supply of Waldsieversdorf. Flyer, no date
• Ferdinand Kindermann: The founder of Waldsieversdorf, information board in the community. Inspection in June 2014.