Society for the promotion of charitable activities
The Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities is Lübeck's oldest citizens' initiative . By decree of the Lübeck Senate of November 25, 1795, it was given legal capacity and thus the status of a legally competent association of old Lübeck law .
history
The "non-profit", as the society is consistently abbreviated today, was founded by the preacher at the Petrikirche and later lawyer Ludwig Suhl with his friends Christian Adolph Overbeck , Johann Julius Walbaum , Anton Diedrich Gütschow , Gottlieb Nicolaus Stolterfoth , Johann Friedrich Petersen (the Older) and Nikolaus Heinrich Brehmer on January 27, 1789 , initially as a literary society for scientific entertainment and mutual instruction . In 1791 the purpose of the company was expanded to include the non-profit aspect, and since 1793 it has had the name that has been retained to this day.
The society, which was democratically structured and supported by the bourgeoisie, and its community center (from 1826 in Breiten Strasse 33, since 1891 in Königstrasse 5 ) quickly became the focus of practical reform work in the spirit of the Enlightenment . The society contributed to the improvement of the conditions in many areas of life, from the rescue institution for those who had died in water, established in 1791 as one of the oldest institutions of the early European rescue service, to the teachers' seminar. Through the Neue Lübeckische Blätter, which was already close to the company at that time , it was connected to the Jung-Lübeck renewal movement in Vormärz.
The non-profit organization was the sponsor of the Sparkasse zu Lübeck and until 1934 also the Lübeck museums, which then became state (from 1937 municipal) sponsorship. In 1938 the Colosseum concert, theater and event hall in Kronsford Allee was transferred to her.
In 1933, the radical alignment of the society brought about the break with its liberal-democratic tradition, which had been supported by the board of directors: the leader principle was introduced as early as July , and in October the society adopted new statutes based on National Socialism ; Jewish members like Moritz Neumark were urged to leave or excluded. The subsidiaries were reshaped and realigned in the National Socialist sense, see z. B. the Emanuel Geibel Society . In autumn 1945 there was a new democratic beginning under the direction of the lawyer Adolf Ihde, who had been director of the company from 1927 to 1930.
Already on the 100th anniversary in 1889, the Lübeck Society received the highest award, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin . Until 2018, it was the only legal person (legal association) to receive this award. In 2019 the Possehl Foundation received this award - also on the occasion of its centenary. Eight directors of the company have also been honored with the coin to date.
present
In order to fulfill its statutory duties, the society maintains numerous facilities, such as the "Lübecker Mütterschule Family Education Center", the " Lübecker Knabenkantorei ", the "Lübeck Music School", a library, etc. In addition, institutions whose goals are related to those of society can open Application to obtain subsidiary status. These include, for example, the Geographical Society of Lübeck , the Archaeological Society and the neighboring Overbeck Society, located in the community gardens . The subsidiaries are supported by the “non-profit organization” in pursuing their goals. In addition, the company manages numerous dependent foundations for citizens of Lübeck.
The “non-profit organization” with its more than 1,800 members enjoys a high reputation in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck across all social boundaries. The following institutions are affiliated with it as subsidiaries:
- Archaeological Society of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- German-Ibero-American Society
- German-Italian Society
- Society for Geography and Ethnology
- International Dieterich Buxtehude Society
- Overbeck Society
- Association for Lübeck History and Archeology, publisher of the magazine for Lübeck history
- Photographic Society
- Verein der Musikfreunde (founded in 1896, inspired by the symphony concerts of the German-Nordic Trade and Industry Exhibition , subsidiary since 1934)
- Rechtsfürsorge eV Lübeck - Resohilfe, founded in 1841
Directors of the company
Name and dates of life | Term of office | Council line no. | Special features and comments | Illustration |
Ludwig Suhl |
1789-1790 | Founder; Archdeacon at the St. Petrikirche , in his house in the Große Petersgrube 27 the founding meeting took place (today part of the music college ) | ||
Christian Adolph Overbeck |
1791 | 949 | High court procurator, later mayor of Lübeck | |
Adolph Friedrich Dehns |
1792 | Senate Secretary; Son of the preacher at St. Aegidien Johann Balthasar Dehns , council secretary since 1769. | ||
** Ludwig Suhl | 1793 | now: Assessor of the cathedral chapter | ||
** Christian Adolph Overbeck | 1794-1797 | 949 | now: Second Syndic of the Cathedral Chapter | |
Gottlieb Nicolaus Stolterfoht |
1798-1801 | Preacher at the church of the castle monastery , at the same time, according to the Lübeck address book in 1798, also preacher at the Holy Spirit Hospital and at the smallpox house. | ||
Anton Diedrich Gütschow |
1802-1803 | Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
*** Ludwig Suhl | 1804-1808 | now: titular assessor | ||
Johann Friedrich Petersen |
1808-1814 | Preacher at the cathedral. First owner of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1835). | ||
Nikolaus Heinrich Brehmer |
1814-1818 | Dr. med., general practitioner, father of the senator and mayor Heinrich Brehmer | ||
**** Ludwig Suhl († 1819) | 1818-1819 | last: Dr. jur., lawyer, titular assessor | ||
** Nicolaus Heinrich Brehmer | 1819-1821 | Dr. med., general practitioner | ||
Bernhard Heinrich von der Hude |
1821-1825 | Pastor at the Marienkirche | ||
Johann Friedrich Hach |
1825-1830 | 955 | Higher Appeal Judge , owner of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1850) | |
Christian Gerhard Overbeck |
1830-1833 | Higher appeal judge, member of the national liberal renewal movement called Jung-Lübeck | ||
** Johann Friedrich Hach | 1833-1836 | Higher Appeal Judge | ||
** Christian Gerhard Overbeck | 1836-1839 | Higher Appeal Judge | ||
Heinrich von der Hude |
1839-1842 | Procurator at the Higher Appeal Court , the Regional Court and Lower Court Procurator , in 1844 third councilor and in 1852 senator | ||
Friedrich Boldemann |
1842-1845 | Underwriter, skipper and member of the citizenry | ||
Johann Heinrich Behn |
1845-1848 | Betting January | ||
Johannes Classen |
1848-1851 | Professor at the Katharineum | ||
Hermann Wilhelm Hach |
1851-1854 | 992 | Senator, son of Senator Johann Friedrich Hach . | |
Georg Friedrich Ludwig Oppenheimer |
1854-1856 | Higher Appeal Judge a. D. | ||
Marcus Jochim Carl Klug |
1856-1859 | Pastor to St. Jakobi | ||
Friedrich Wilhelm Mantels |
1859-1862 | Professor at the Katharineum, formerly a member of the national liberal renewal movement known as Jung-Lübeck | ||
Wilhelm von Bippen (medic) († 1865) |
1862-1865 | General Practitioner | ||
Heinrich Gustav Plitt |
1865-1868 | 1002 | Director of the lower court, senator from 1868 | |
Wilhelm Brehmer |
1868-1871 | 1005 | Advocate, Senator from 1870, holder of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1901) | |
Carl Alexander von Duhn |
1871-1874 | Member of the Supreme Court, previously a member of the national liberal renewal movement called Jung-Lübeck | ||
Adolph Hach |
1874-1877 | Actuary of the police office | ||
August Sartori |
1877-1889 | Senior teacher at the Katharineum, professor there in 1880 | ||
Heinrich Klug |
1886-1889 | 1012 | Senator, holder of the three highest awards in Lübeck (Society (1893), Chamber of Commerce and Senate (1904)) | |
Johann Georg Eschenburg |
1883-1886 | 1017 | Senate Secretary, Senator from 1885, holder of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1910) | |
** Heinrich Klug | 1886-1889 | 1012 | senator | |
Ernst Christian Johannes Schön |
1889-1892 | 1022 | First prosecutor | |
Adolf Brehmer |
1892-1895 | Lawyer | ||
Emil Ferdinand Fehling |
1895-1898 | 1023 | Lawyer, Senator from 1896, holder of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1917) | |
Johannes Daniel Benda |
1898-1901 | Judge at the Lübeck Regional Court , first public prosecutor from 1901, holder of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1919) | ||
Ernst Julius Ludwig Müller |
1901-1904 | Director of the Johanneum | ||
** Ernst Christian Johannes Schön | 1904-1907 | 1022 | now: Senator | |
Johann Martin Andreas Neumann |
1907-1910 | 1029 | senator | |
Carl Dimpker |
1910-1913 | 1037 | Consul, acting spokesman in the citizenry and President of the Chamber of Commerce | |
Christian Reuter |
1913-1915 | Director of the Katharineum | ||
Cay Diedrich Lienau |
1915-1918 | 1034 | senator | |
Johannes Evers |
1918-1921 | Chief Pastor to St. Marien | ||
Hermann Stodte |
1921-1924 | Senior Director of Studies of the Johanneum | ||
Rudolf Keibel |
1924-1927 | First in-house counsel of the Chamber of Commerce, member of parliament and deputy spokesman for the Lübeck citizenship | ||
Adolf Ihde | 1927-1930 | Lawyer and Notary | ||
Karl Utermarck |
1930-1933 | District Court President | ||
Hans Sellschopp |
1933-1938 | Businessman and National Socialist cultural functionary, head of the foreign office of the Reichsmusikkammer and in 1973 as Companion of the Order of the Cross of Nails one of the symbolic figures of reconciliation in Coventry . | ||
Otto Bernhard Clausen |
1939-1945 | District leader of the NSDAP | ||
** Adolf Ihde |
1945-1949 | Lawyer and Notary | ||
Wilhelm Kusche († 1951) |
1949-1951 | Head of Studies of the Oberschule zum Dom | ||
Rolf Sander |
1952-1958 | District Judge | ||
Gerhard Gaul |
1958-1961 | Lawyer and Notary. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1982) | ||
Gerhard Schneider |
1961-1964 | senator | ||
** Rolf Sander (1911–2009) |
1964-1966 | Judge at the Lübeck Regional Court | ||
Werner Dalstein | 1967-1969 | Construction director | ||
Julius Edelhoff | 1970-1972 | Senior Medical Director | ||
Gerhard Lund | 1973-1975 | Lawyer and Notary | ||
Christoph Deecke | 1976-1988 | architect | ||
Boto Kusserow | 1979-1984 | Lawyer and Notary | ||
** Christoph Deecke (1924-2004) |
1985 | architect | ||
Hans-Helmke Goosmann (* 1927) | 1991-1996 | architect | ||
Renate Menken | 1997-2002 | pharmacist | ||
Helmut Wischmeyer (1935–2019) | 2003-2005 | Apartment-Construction-Kfm. | ||
Antje Peters-Hirt | 2006-2011 | Germanist, businesswoman | ||
Titus Jochen Heldt (* 1969) | 2012-2017 | Lawyer | ||
Angelika Richter | since 2018 | Rechtspflegerin, former branch manager of the Lübeck district court |
Note on the table: The term of office is three years, immediately subsequent further terms of office are not marked separately in the table, they result from the time. Further periods of office after the caesura by another incumbent are marked by the number of asterisks in front of them, i.e. ** for a second further period (originally to make it clear that a portrait does not have to be inserted again).
Honorary members
According to its statutes, the society has appointed a total of 27 honorary members. Honorary membership has not been envisaged since 1961. Honorary members became (still incomplete; year of honorary membership in brackets):
- Friedrich Carl Gröger (1792), painter and first honorary member of the society
- Johann Niklas Bandelin (1817)
- Andreas Ehrenfried Martens (before 1828)
- Ludwig Heller (1859)
- Emil Minlos (1884)
- Victor Böhmer (1888)
- Rudolf von Gneist (1888)
- August Lanners (1888)
Commemorative coin
As a special honor, the society has been awarding its gold and silver medal since 1832 . The bronze version was only awarded in the first few years after the award was established and then discontinued.
literature
- Ludwig Heller : History of the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. Rohden, Lübeck 1837, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10019443-5
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 . In: ZVLGA , Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91-168.
- Hermann Stodte : Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck, founded in 1789. Lübeck in 1939.
- Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work . Lübeck 1964
- Ahasver von Brandt : The Lübeck bourgeoisie at the time of the foundation of the "non-profit" - people, ideas and social conditions. In: Der Wagen , 1966, pp. 18–33.
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925.
- 200 years society for the promotion of non-profit activities in Lübeck 1789-1989 . Head of the Society, Lübeck 1989.
- Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789-1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995 ISBN 3-7950-0463-2
- Ideas for Lübeck - move, promote, shape - 225 years of the non-profit organization . Head of the Society, Lübeck 2014. ISBN 978-3-00-045212-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ § 1 of the statutes of the charitable; see also Lübisches law . The modern association law was only introduced in Germany in 1900 with the BGB.
- ^ M. Strätling, A. Schneeweiß, Peter Schmucker: Medical University of Lübeck: Clinic for Anesthesiology. In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , pp. 479-486, here: p. 479.
- ↑ On the history since 1896: Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work . Lübeck 1964, pp. 124-126
- ^ Since October 1919 Franz von Hoeßlin was the conductor at the concerts of the association
- ↑ 175 years legal welfare eV Lübeck - Resohilfe , in: Lübeckische Blätter 181 (2016), issue 13 ( digitized ), pp. 222-225
- ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 6, 1828, p. 364