Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter

Memorial in front of the main fire station of the Braunschweig professional fire department.

Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter (born October 12, 1821 in Braunschweig ; † November 26, 1890 there ) was a German merchant and tobacco manufacturer. Reuter is known as the "father of the Braunschweig fire brigades", since he founded the Turner fire brigade in Braunschweig in 1862 , the predecessor of today's Braunschweig fire brigade .

life and work

In 1840 Reuter joined the "Rescue Association" founded on August 3, 1820 by the Brunswick businessman Heinrich Huch . In 1854 Reuter was a member of the Braunschweig regional assembly and a member of the city council. In 1855 he was appointed "Oberanführer" of the rescue club, in 1860 he was involved in the re-establishment of the Braunschweig men's gymnastics club (MTV).

On December 8, 1862, Reuter founded the " Turner Braunschweig Fire Brigade ". In 1863 he became director of the “Gas Enlightenment Society” and of the new waterworks at the railway park , part of today's public park . In 1865 Reuter became the commander of the Braunschweig fire brigade.

In 1870 he founded the Braunschweigische Landesfeuerwehr-Verband and became its 1st chairman. Reuter was also the initiator of the "law relating to fire aid", which came into force on April 2, 1874 and obliged the communities of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg to set up "exercised" volunteer fire brigades . In the same year Reuter became district fire director and chairman (until 1876) of the German Fire Brigade Committee . In 1875 Reuter founded the Braunschweig professional fire brigade and had a fire station set up on the towers of St. Andrew's Church .

literature

Hermann Buchheister: Reuter, Friedrich Wilhelm. , In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 110 .

Web links

Chronicle of the Braunschweig volunteer fire brigade ( memento from February 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Buchheister: Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter , In: Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume , p. 110
^ Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for 1820
↑ Kurt Hoffmeister : Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history , self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-926701-50-1 , p. 13
^ Rudolf Blasius (Ed.): Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII. Festschrift for the participants in the LXIX meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, ( digitized version), p. 399f.
^ Hartmut Nickel, Mark Opalka and Romy Meyer: Reports from the Braunschweig city archive. Administrative report for 1999 , In: City of Braunschweig (Ed.): Quaestiones Brunsvicenses. Reports from the Braunschweig City Archives 11/12 , Braunschweig 1999/2000, ISBN 3-7752-5790-X , p. 264

personal data
SURNAME	Reuter, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German merchant and tobacco manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1890
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Hermann Buchheister: Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter , In: Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume , p. 110

[2] Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for 1820

[3] Kurt Hoffmeister : Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history , self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-926701-50-1 , p. 13

[4] Rudolf Blasius (Ed.): Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII. Festschrift for the participants in the LXIX meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, ( digitized version), p. 399f.

[5] Hartmut Nickel, Mark Opalka and Romy Meyer: Reports from the Braunschweig city archive. Administrative report for 1999 , In: City of Braunschweig (Ed.): Quaestiones Brunsvicenses. Reports from the Braunschweig City Archives 11/12 , Braunschweig 1999/2000, ISBN 3-7752-5790-X , p. 264