Friedrich Missler

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Friedrich Missler on an advertising slip of his agency (1913)

Friedrich Missler , also: Johann Friedrich Missler , (spelling also Missler ) (* February 7, 1858 in Bremen ; † August 27, 1922 in Bremen) was a Bremen merchant.

biography

Newspaper advertising by the F (riedrich) Missler agency (1882)
Friedrich Missler's emigration halls in Bremen, 1907
Memorial at the senior citizens' residence Walsroder Str. 1 in Bremen-Findorff
Memorial plaque in front of the senior citizens' residence Walsroder Str. 1 in Bremen-Findorff
Newspaper advertising by the agency depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II (1904)

Missler (later also written Missler ) learned the commercial profession at the emigration expert service Bödeker in Bremen. In 1880 he became a citizen of Bremen and on January 12, 1881 he opened F. Missler - an emigration agency - which existed until July 31, 1935. This company quickly developed into one of the most important agencies in Europe. From 1885 to 1935 she placed 1.6 million  emigrants for North German Lloyd . The company's headquarters were mainly at Bahnhofsstrasse 30. There were other branches in the many central, southern and eastern European capitals.

In 1894/95 Missler bought the Achterberg and Siemsglüß farms in the Obereinzingen parish in the Dorfmark parish (now part of Bad Fallingbostel ). Here he built a modern recreation house for sick children and adults from Bremen. It was in operation from 1896 to 1945.

F. Mißler und Komp. Was one of the most important emigration agencies in Austria-Hungary : In 1913 the company had 60,000 to 80,000 customers, followed by the Hamburg travel agency Falck und Komp. With 40,000 customers.

A street in Bremen- Schwachhausen has been reminiscent of Missler since 1923.

Missler halls

In 1905, Missler built four permanent halls for 250 Eastern European emigrants on Walsroder Strasse in the Findorff district of Bremen, in collaboration with Norddeutscher Lloyd . During the First World War they served as a reserve hospital, later as accommodation for the Caspari Freicorps, for labor service, for a concentration camp and for a hospital. In 1986 the buildings were demolished and today there is a retirement home there.

Friedrich Missler Foundation

In 1894/95 he acquired the Achterberg and Siemsglüß farms in Obereinzingen near Dorfmark, where he built a rest home for sick adults and later for children from Bremen. It operated from 1896 until the end of World War II . Combating tuberculosis and strengthening health resilience were the goals of the stays for 46 school children in Bremen. Achterberg no longer exists today. Missler bequeathed his considerable fortune in the form of the Friedrich Missler Foundation (dissolved in 1942) to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In another place Dorfmark is mentioned as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ The text on the memorial plaque reads: "Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to be in open opposition to your time and to say NO!"
  3. ↑ The text on the commemorative plaque reads: “Behind these walls, the first Bremen concentration camp was built on April 1, 1933 in the former Missler emigration hall. This is where the persecution of politically dissenters by the National Socialists, which violates human rights and destroys people, began in this city. In order to cover up their crimes, the 'KZ Missler' was relocated at the end of August 1933. "
  4. ↑ Achterberg has been cleared for the Bergen military training area together with other villages. The location of the former village is shown on the map of the former villages.
  5. ↑ The advertisers and their practices. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , Morgenblatt, No. 298/1913 (XXV. Volume), October 30, 1913, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  6. ↑ Emigration to America - Procedure and Information
  7. ↑ Jörg Wollenberg, From Voluntary Labor Service to the Concentration Camp
  8. ↑ The former villages on the Bergen-Belsen military training area
  9. ↑ Old postcard of the Achterberg recreation center
personal data
SURNAME Missler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Missler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen businessman
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorfmark near Fallingbostel
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1922
Place of death Bremen