Georg Friedrich Brackebusch

Georg Friedrich Brackebusch (born June 20, 1799 in Hanover ; † July 3, 1883 in Linden ) was a German Freemason , entrepreneur and politician , Member of the Bundestag.

Life

Georg Friedrich Brackebusch was born at the time of the Electorate of Hanover at the end of the 18th century in the royal seat of Hanover, which was orphaned by the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . As a child he experienced the so-called " French era ", grew into the Kingdom of Hanover and the industrialization that began around two decades later .

At the age of only 33, Georg Friedrich Brackebusch was accepted as a Freemason in Hanover on November 15, 1832 under the matriculation number 287 in the Johannisloge Zur Ceder , in which he then held various offices until 1849.

In the meantime, Brackebusch took over a wallpaper factory founded there by the merchant Georg Schütz in Linden in 1845 , which he then made known under the name Tapetenfabrik Leinau .

After Brackebusch had been elected President of the Hanoverian Trade Board, he became chairman of the Association of Members of the Trade Board from November 1848 . During the German Revolution, the entrepreneur worked for the 2nd constituency of the city of Hanover from May 15 to 30, 1849 as a non-attached member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . Brackebusch was particularly committed to free trade and - while the German states were not yet politically united - he participated in the draft of the “ Customs Tariff for United Germany”.

At the location of the later Europa House : The Brackebusch house (center) on the corner of Karmarschstrasse , built in 1881, the Hotel Continental on the left , in front of it the former Café Kröpcke ;
Postcard No. 535 (so-called moonlight card ) from Karl F. Wunder , around 1898

After the proclamation of the German Empire and after the entrepreneur Ferdinand Wallbrecht had laid out Karmarschstrasse as the first cross-cut through the four main streets of Hanover's old town, which were still medieval , Brackebusch commissioned the architect Hubert Stier with the construction of the business building, then called Brackebusch-Haus at the address Georgstraße 18 on the newly created corner of Karmarschstraße .

Honors

After the unification of the industrial city of Linden previously collected for the independent city with the capital of Hanover at the time of the Weimar Republic, the entrepreneur Georg Friedrich Brackebusch was posthumously by (today) in the district in 1924, Linden-Nord named Brackebuschstraße honored.

Others

A portrait of Brackebusch can be found in the archive of the Historisches Museum Hannover .

Web links

Andreas-Andrew Bornemann: Lindener trade and industry from 1646–1837 /… / 1830 wallpaper factory Leinau by Georg Schütz, later Georg Friedrich Brackebusch on the private site postkarten-archiv.de

Remarks

↑ Deviating from this, the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942 states that the street is named "[...] after the Brackebusch family (Linden)"; compare this scan of the address book

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Georg Friedrich Brackebusch , in Siegfried Schildmacher (ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover, Hanover : Self-published, 2015, p. 34
^ Klaus Mlynek : Karmarschstrasse. 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. 337.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 407ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Brackebusch, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Freemason, entrepreneur and politician, MdFN
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1883
Place of death	Linden trees

[4] Deviating from this, the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942 states that the street is named "[...] after the Brackebusch family (Linden)"; compare this scan of the address book

[Auf_den_Spuren_...-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Georg Friedrich Brackebusch , in Siegfried Schildmacher (ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover, Hanover : Self-published, 2015, p. 34

[2] Klaus Mlynek : Karmarschstrasse. 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. 337.

[3] Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 407ff.