Fritz Beindorff

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“Kommerzienrat Senator Beindorff”;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Fritz Beindorff (born April 29, 1860 in Essen , † June 2, 1944 at Gut Auermühle in the Gifhorn district ) was a German businessman , manufacturer , Romanian consul general and Prussian councilor , art patron and a highly honored association official .

Life

Fritz Beindorff was the son of senior overman Friedrich Beindorff (1819-1868), a son of the top climber Carl Beindorff and Sophie , born Ehringshäuser , and the Amalie (1823-1902), daughter of the farmer Johann Wilhelm Ruschen and Anna-Christine , nee Loigmann .

He first attended in Essen, then in Dusseldorf the secondary school . This was followed by a commercial apprenticeship in Cologne and Brussels . After his apprenticeship, he got a job in a stationery store in Hagen. From September 16, 1881 he was a commercial agent for the Günther Wagner company , from which the Pelikan company emerged . As a good connoisseur of the Southeast, he opened up the markets of Southern Europe and the Balkans through his business trips, so that the company expanded into what was then Austria-Hungary.

Signature of Fritz Beindorff as President of the Chamber of Commerce in Hanover , Wolfeel , von Roon on emergency money over 25 Pfennig at the beginning of the Weimar Republic ;
1919 printed by JC König & Ebhardt
The fountain dedicated to Fritz Beindorff on the edge of the Eilenriede city ​​forest in Hanover

Then he was appointed to the management of the company, in which he was authorized signatory from 1887 . On May 12, 1888, he married Elisabeth Wagner, the oldest daughter of the company owner, and on January 1, 1894, became a partner in the company, and then in 1895 as sole owner. He carried on the successful company policy of his father-in-law and made Pelikan a world-famous brand. Since he was very committed to society and was considered a patron of art, he received numerous honorary posts.

In 1904 Beindorff joined the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and was elected president in the middle of World War I in 1917, a position he held until 1922. The Lower Saxony-Kassel Economic Association and the Lower Saxony-Kassel Transport Association were founded under Beindorff's presidency . Later he was appointed Honorary President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in 1930 in recognition of his services to the Lower Saxony economy .

In the meantime, Beindorff had been active as Senator for the city of Hanover from 1907 to 1919 . In addition, he was appointed to the Prussian Commerce Council in 1913 and acted as Consul General of Romania from 1930 to 1936 .

In 1916 Fritz Beindorff was one of the founders of the Kestner Society , which he then represented as a member of the board . At the time of National Socialism and until 1936 he acted as chairman of the board of the company, which was soon threatened with closure. In his position as Senator of the City of Hanover, Beindorff initially campaigned for its continued existence. After a ban could no longer be prevented, he did his best to protect the interests of the association.

From 1923 to 1930, Fritz Beindorff headed the Masonic lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär , into which he had been admitted in 1898 , as master of the chair .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Beindorff had the Auermühle estate built near Steinhorst (Lower Saxony) (in what is now the joint municipality of Hankensbüttel ) in the south of the Lüneburg Heath . The mausoleum of the Beindorff family is also located in a forest close to the estate .

In what would later become the Hanoverian district of Kirchrode , the family had a building ensemble, now a listed building, built at Bünteweg 3 in a park designed by the Hanoverian gardening director Julius Trip .

Fritz Beindorff was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science .

In November 1932 Beindorff was one of the signatories of a petition from industrialists and bankers to Paul von Hindenburg , which demanded Hitler's chancellorship .

Beindorff, a member of the Rotarians , was elected governor for Germany in 1934.

Torchbearer column on the Maschsee

Kommerzienrat Beindorff had donated 50,000 Reichsmarks to his friend, Lord Mayor Arthur Quantity , for artistic jewelry on the north bank of the emerging Maschsee , which, on the occasion of the opening of the Maschsee, flowed into a nearly 20-meter-high column with a torchbearer on top.

Honors

In 1930 the Technical University of Hanover awarded Fritz Beindorff an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). In Hanover, he was appointed on 27 April 1940 an honorary citizen appointed and the district list is Fritz Beindorff avenue named after him. Right next to it is the Fritz Beindorff fountain on the edge of the Eilenriede . Two bronze pelicans adorn this fountain.

Review today

In 2014, the city of Hanover appointed an advisory board to check whether people who gave their names to streets “had active participation in the Nazi regime or serious personal actions against humanity”. He suggested the renaming of the street named after Beindorff. Beindorff had “tolerated the operation of forced labor and a labor education camp on the company premises” and benefited from it. Beindorff's descendants and the Pelikan company demand - with reference to his dementia at the end of his life - to research Beindorff's involvement before a decision is made.

literature

  • Kommerzienrat Senator Beindorff. In: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover, undated [1929], undated.
  • Klaus Beindorff:  Beindorff, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 20 ( digitized version ).
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Who was what Richard Bracht Verlag, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 , p. 17.
  • Ulrich Riedel: Fritz Beindorff. In: Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Volume 2. 1954, pp. 1ff.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Beindorff, (1) Fritz. 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. 47; limited preview in Google Book search
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Beindorff, (1) Fritz. 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. 55.
  • Siegfried Schildmacher , Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (Red.): Fritz Beindorff . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 26
  • Simon Benne : "... because I was enthusiastic about Hitler" / How brown was Fritz Beindorff? A historical study examined the role of the Pelikan boss in the Nazi era - and encountered light and shadow / debate about renaming the street continues. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 5, 2018, p. 11

Web links

Commons : Fritz Beindorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, Waldemar R. Röhrbein mentions the date of birth April 28, 1860 both in the Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon and in the Stadtlexikon Hannover for the keyword Beindorff, (1) Fritz (sd)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Klaus Beindorff:  Beindorff, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 20 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Beindorff, (1) Fritz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 47; online through google books
  3. ↑ a b c o.V. : Senator Beindorff, Councilor of Commerce. In: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number)
  4. ↑ Simon Benne: The work on the rough stone. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 10, 2010, p. 13
  5. ↑ a b Simon Benne: How brown is the torch-bearer on the Maschsee in Hanover? , HAZ, April 17, 2011
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153
  7. ^ Wolfgang Neß: Bünteweg. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 19f., As well as Kirchrode in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 19
  8. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 2, 2015, p. 18
  9. ↑ a b Project street names: The recommendation of the advisory board "namesake personalities". Table template for the GOK on October 1, 2015 (PDF), hannover.de
  10. ^ A b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : The art on the lake , in ders. (Ed.): The Maschsee in Hanover. Its origins and history , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87706-046-9 and ISBN 3-87706-046-3 , pp. 66–70; here especially p. 66f.
  11. ↑ These ten streets are to be renamed in: Online edition of Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 2, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2015
  12. ↑ Conrad von Meding: Commission examines street names Did Pelikan boss Beindorff support Nazi atrocities? / The commission to review 500 Hanoverian street names has met and wants to present on Thursday which streets should be renamed because namesake were involved in Nazi atrocities. According to HAZ information, Fritz-Beindorff-Allee is included. on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 30, 2015, updated on October 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Beindorff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, Romanian consul
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1944
Place of death Gut Auermühle , Gifhorn district