Society for the promotion of charitable activities

Society house

Commemorative plaque for the founding of the company at Suhl's house in Große Petersgrube 27

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)

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  Friedrich Carl Gröger

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  Emil Minlos

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  Rudolf von Gneist

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

Commons : Society for the promotion of non-profit activities  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Society for the Advancement of Nonprofits  - Sources and Full Texts

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ § 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.
2. ^ 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.
3. ↑ On the history since 1896: Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work . Lübeck 1964, pp. 124-126
4. ^ Since October 1919 Franz von Hoeßlin was the conductor at the concerts of the association
5. ↑ 175 years legal welfare eV Lübeck - Resohilfe , in: Lübeckische Blätter 181 (2016), issue 13 ( digitized ), pp. 222-225
6. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 6, 1828, p. 364