Franz Buhring

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Franz Bühring around 1929;
Drawing by August Heitmüller

Franz Bühring (full name Joachim Christian Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Franz Bühring ; born March 22, 1868 in Hanover ; † July 24, 1941 ibid) was a German merchant, textile manufacturer, business leader and Turkish consul .

Life

Franz Bühring was born in Hanover in 1868 as the son of the merchant from Mecklenburg, who later became mayor - spokesman and councilor for commerce, Conrad Bühring . In the early days of the German Empire , he attended the old Lyceum I in Hanover and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Göttingen . He then went to Krefeld to attend the local trade school and the royal weaving school . He also gained practical experience in weaving mills in Krefeld and traveling through Germany and abroad.

Around 1902 or later: The business building, later called Frensdorff / Bühring , at Georgstrasse 24 (today: house number 38 ) with the signature of the court photographer Albert Meyer above his "Warming Hall"
The “Bühring House in Hanover” at Wiesenstrasse 30, Südstadt , where the family lived long before the air raids on Hanover in World War II; before the daughter Elisabeth (Lizzie) lived at Wiesenstrasse 42 in 1957

Prepared for his professional life in this way, Franz Bühring joined the silk goods wholesaler that his father had founded in 1862 in 1893. After his father died in the same year, he became the sole owner of the silk wholesaler, which he soon expanded significantly by joining and taking over similar companies, Th. Kettembeil & Co. in Leipzig , Textilcentra GmbH in Berlin and the silk goods wholesalers Voget & Rose in Hamburg , where he also became a partner.

On September 11, 1894, Bühring married Margarethe (Karoline Theodore Marie Margarethe (* October 10, 1874 in Hanover; † March 4, 1933 in Munich)), daughter of the Hanover factory owner and later ennobled Wilhelm Garvens and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine Helene , née Fiedeler. The two had several children. However, the marriage was divorced on November 14, 1903 in Celle.

In his second marriage, Franz Bühring married the widow of “Dr.phil. Heinrich Bühring ”, the personally liable partner and authorized signatory of the tool machine construction company H. Wohlenberg , Anna, who died shortly before in 1909 (Anna Caroline Elisabeth Henriette, née Wohlenberg, widowed Bühring; * November 19, 1875 in Hanover † February 9, 1940 ibid ). She brought her two daughters Hilde and Gertrud Bühring into this marriage. At least for a time, the family lived in 1929 at Walderseestrasse 23 on the Eilenriede in the List district . This connection of Franz Bünding also gave birth to new descendants, but Bühring's second marriage was legally divorced on October 9, 1930.

A few months later, Franz Bühring married his third and last wife, Marieluise or Luise (Caroline Friederike Minna Louise (Marieluise) Diers; * May 14, 1890 in Hanover; † April 11, 1970 there; buried on May 21, 1931 in Hanover; April 20 of the year at Engesohder Friedhof), daughter of Friedrich Heinrich Diers, who took over the Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei in 1889 , and his wife Marie Dorothee Amalie Luise Zacharias.

Decorated: "Commercial Judge Consul Franz Bühring"

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Bühring had been included in the list of founders of the Kestner Society .

In addition to his commercial work, Franz Bühring volunteered as a

  • Co-founder and chairman of the Association of Wholesalers and Manufacturers of the Hanover Textile Industry;
  • Co-founder and member of the board of the Association of German Velvet and Silk Goods Wholesalers;
  • Co-founder and board member in the Reich Association of German Wholesale and Overseas Trade Berlin; since its founding, also head of the Lower Saxony district group as 1st chairman;
  • Chairman of the wholesale association in Lower Saxony
  • Chairman of the employers' association in the wholesale trade in Hanover;
  • Vice President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as
  • Commercial judge and chairman of the commercial judges ' association at the Hanover regional court .

In addition, Bühring worked as, among other things

During the Weimar Republic , Franz Bühring was appointed Consul of the Republic of Turkey under Kemal Ataturk in 1927 .

Franz Bühring lived with his family in the Bühring house at Wiesenstrasse 30 . He died in the middle of World War II on July 24, 1941 and was buried on July 28 of that year in the Engesohde cemetery .

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 column 339.

Web links

Commons : Franz Bühring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : Bühring, Franz in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on July 9, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gernot Becker (responsible): 36.7. Becker, Christine Charlotte Elisabeth oo Bühring , illustrated genealogical family history (s) on gebe.paperstyle.de , last accessed on July 9, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h anonymous: Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , ( August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1. Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover ( around 1929), without page numbers
  4. ↑ a b c Georg Wenzel: Bühring, Franz , in ders .: German business leader. Life courses of German personalities. A reference book on 1300 economic personalities of our time , edited with the support of economic organizations of industry and trade, Hamburg [u. a.]: Hanseatische Verlags-Anstalt, 1929, p. 33; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ See Zeitschrift für Werkzeugmaschinen und Werkzeuge , Volume 13, E. Valentin., 1909, p. 435
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Walderseestrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 257
  7. ↑ Compare the archive for book trade and commercial graphics or archive for book printing and related branches of business , ed. by Alexander Waldow, Leipzig: printing and publishing by Alexander Waldow, 1889, p. 65; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Wieland Schmied : Trailblazer for Modern Art - 50 Years of the Kestner Society. Hannover 1966, p. 235; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Bühring, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühring, Joachim Christian Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, silk goods wholesaler, business leader, commercial judge and Turkish consul
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1941
Place of death Hanover