Friedrich Buhmann (businessman)

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Friedrich Buhmann (born April 19, 1882 in Hanover ; † April 10, 1962 there ) was a German businessman , director of the (later) Dr. Bogeyman School , member of the construction community Hannover and builder in Hanover.

Life

Empire

Sprengelhaus and Dr. Buhmann School (1912)
In the "Sprengelhaus" in Georgstrasse from 1907 to 1932, not only typewriting was practiced.

Friedrich Buhman was born in the German Empire as the son of the businessman Carl Buhmann , who ran a delicatessen on Aegidientorplatz in Hanover and was married to a Hanoverian horticultural daughter. After his secondary school leaving certificate , Friedrich completed a commercial apprenticeship with Ernst Grote and then did his military service .

From 1904 to 1906 Friedrich Buhmann studied business administration at the private commercial college in Leipzig . During his studies, he taught at the Rackow School in Hanover .

The ongoing early days also brought in the commercial offices radical changes with it: Instead of the previously handwritten written correspondence , the time had typewriters started in place until then, of course, male clerks and secretaries now conquered young typists offices. The perfect use of a typewriter became a guarantee of one's livelihood . Friedrich Buhmann recognized these signs of the times when he and two colleagues from the Hanover Rackow School, Wilhelm Herold and Helmut Cammelade , founded the “Hanoverian private commercial school Herold-Buhmann” in early 1907 . In April of the same year, the school started operations with two classrooms on Georgstrasse and the corner of Große Packhofstrasse.

During this time Buhmann married Alma Plinke , a farmer's daughter from Langenhagen , who later helped in the commercial management of the school and gave birth to the sons Karl-Heinz and Friedrich junior .

Friedrich Buhmann's good contacts with the family of chocolate manufacturers Sprengel ultimately led to Sprengel's purchase of the building (“Sprengelhaus”) and to the promotion of the young commercial school by renting the classrooms in the house at low cost.

After the two co-founders left - Wilhelm Herold received a severance payment in 1912 - Friedrich Buhmann continued to run the school on his own. In the First World War , however, he had to serve four years as a soldier at the front; At that time, "a large number of young women [...] had already been brought in to represent the absent gentlemen". During this time, Buhmann's wife died of tuberculosis in 1918 .

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

Typewriter and Music (7th IBA, 1931)

In the Weimar Republic , Friedrich Buhmann married his second wife, Gertrud Harras, in 1919 : the young typewriter teacher was one of 27 teachers at the commercial school in 1927, the year of the company's 20th anniversary, and gave birth to another son: Walter .

Also in 1927 Buhmann became a model for other commercial schools: for the first time he lent "home typewriters" to schoolchildren for a small fee. In the following year, in 1928, the pioneer implemented his idea of accompanying typing lessons with music . He officially presented this innovation for the first time

  • 1930 at the 1st Lower Saxony office exhibition in Hanover , as well
  • 1931 at the International Office Exhibition in Berlin .

At the beginning of the 1930s, Friedrich Buhmann introduced announcement boards with supplementary sheets for shorthand lessons .

In 1932 Buhmann arranged for his commercial school to move to a more spacious building at Prinzenstrasse 32 / corner of Thielenplatz (today: house number 2) and in the 1930s acquired the building at Prinzenstrasse 13 / corner of Sophienstrasse .

The emerging Nazism met the bourgeois - conservative oriented bogeyman with skepticism : Although he in the Third Reich knew adapt the political situation, he was not a member of the Nazi Party , especially since he many in the Hanoverian merchant circles Jewish had friends. In the last years of the Second World War , Friedrich Buhmann was ousted from the management of the school, while his youngest son Walter had died while a Soviet prisoner of war . Professor Münch was now head of the school, but Buhmann was allowed to continue working in the college .

During the air raids on Hanover , all students and teachers regularly fled from Prinzenstrasse to the underground bunker under the main train station when there was an air raid . The Buhmann couple stayed in the school building, the headmaster learned - English. Regarding the expected victory of the Allies , he commented: "We still need that."

After the Second World War

1945: 90% of the inner city are destroyed (city model in the new town hall of Hanover)

After the liberation of Hanover by the US troops on April 10, 1945 , Buhmann received permission from the British military authorities to reopen the school in late summer 1945. Nevertheless, he was still "a few days" to prison : A teacher had hung a map with the boundaries of the Third Reich. The briefness of the headmaster's detention is attributed to the fact that a young woman who was engaged to a British officer lived in the basement of Buhmann's house on Erwinstrasse .

In the years of reconstruction of the 90% destroyed inner city, Friedrich Buhmann was informally a member of the “Aufbaugemeinschaft Hannover”, but was one of the leading forces among the citizens : They met with the city ​​director , the building department and other citizens, initially in the Buhmann school building Prinzenstrasse 21 (today: 2). Friedrich Buhmann also actively participated with his own buildings:

  • 1949: Europahaus ; The architect Joseph Herlitzius planned the first new commercial building in Hanover as a 6-storey, simple skeleton structure with arcades. The building was erected according to the first "construction plan" in the old street alignment as a dominant corner on the Kröpcke and is a symbol of the reconstruction in Hanover;
  • the house Atlantic at Georgsplatz and
  • 1955: Hotel on Thielenplatz with film studio .

In between, Buhmann founded the “two-year vocational school for business” as the first state-recognized substitute school in 1952 . At the suggestion of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at the request of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , Friedrich Buhmann's achievements "in difficult times made it possible for thousands of young people to receive qualified training" were awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1955 . On this occasion, District President Theanolte Bähnisch Buhmann presented the permit for the one-year commercial college .

Friedrich Buhmann was active in the commercial and organizational management of his school until the last days of his life. The merchant was considered a patriarch - a child of his time (s) . He was strict in maintaining discipline : if he saw girls in pants, he gave them fares, and sent them home to change and then reappear. On the other hand, he was often personally concerned about the well-being of his employees and teachers, "many of whom had worked for him for decades".

After the school's founder died in 1962, his son Friedrich Buhmann junior took over the management of the Buhmann School for a short time. His son Christian Buhmann took over the educational institution in 1968.

Honors

Fonts

  • Friedrich Buhmann, MJ Stamm: My balance sheet 1924 / Commercial balance sheet, income tax balance sheet, wealth tax balance sheet / Taking into account the Gold Balance Ordinance of December 28, 1923, its implementation provisions of March 28, 1924, the 2nd Emergency Tax Ordinance of December 19, 1923 and the revaluation provisions of the 3rd Emergency Tax Ordinance dated February 14, 1924 , along with the appendix tax accounting on a stable value basis , CV Engelhard & Co., Hanover 1924
  • Friedrich Buhmann: Master School of Computing , Part 1, Verlag Winkler, Darmstadt o. J. (1951)
  • Success gives zest for life , prospectus
  • My dream

literature

  • 20 years commercial private school / Friedrich Buhmann Dipl.-Kaufmann / 1907–1927 , 1927
  • 75 years of Buhmann school , 1982
  • Karin Stülpe, Lena Stülpe, Marianne Wurth: 100 years of education - 100 years of Dr. Buhmann Schule , Festschrift , ed. by Hans-Dieter Stülpe, January 2007
  • Klaus Mlynek : Buhmann. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 146 , 254 in the Google book search
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Buhmann, Friedrich. 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. 78f. limited preview in Google Book search
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Buhmann - Dr. B. School. 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. 96.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Buhmann, Friedrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 96.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Buhmann, Friedrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 78f.
  2. a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Buhmann - Dr. B. School , and Buhmann, Friedrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , both p. 96
  3. a b c d e f g h i Karin Stülpe, Lena Stülpe, Marianne Wurth: 100 years of education ... , p. 32 f.
  4. a b c d e f g h Karin Stülpe, Lena Stülpe, Marianne Wurth: 100 years of education ... , p. 20 ff.
  5. Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: "Georgstrasse". In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 68f .; as well as middle , in the appendix to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.
  6. 20 years of commercial private school Friedrich Buhmann ...
  7. a b c Karin Stülpe, Lena Stülpe, Marianne Wurth: War and post-war years. In: 100 Years of Education ... , p. 35f.
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  9. a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgstraße 38. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 121
  10. Karin Stülpe, Lena Stülpe, Marianne Wurth: 100 years of education ... , p. 38ff.
  11. Information from the Office of the Federal President