Gustav Brandt (businessman)

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Caspar Justus Gustav Brandt (born January 25, 1847 in Bremen , † May 17, 1918 in Hanover ) was a German merchant and patron .

Life

Entrance to the " Hindenburg Stadium ", which was built until 1922 and is now the Eilenriede Stadium
Devaluation of money due to German inflation 1914 to 1923 : As here in Berlin in July 1923, "the public [...] provided themselves with large wallets of money in order to be able to transport the amount of [almost worthless] money."
1923: Emergency money as a voucher from the Hanover company Gebr. Körting for 10 billion marks

Gustav Brandt was the son of a merchant and owner of an oil mill near Vlotho on the Weser . He learned the trade of a businessman in the export trade of his grandfather Primavesi in Bremen.

Shortly after the proclamation of the German Reich , Gustav Brandt went to Huelva in Spain in 1872 , where he built a factory for wood processing and founded a company to trade in wood products. In addition, he also traded in wine, spirits and bills of exchange . In 1898 Brandt, who had made “an extraordinary fortune”, dissolved his company and moved to Hanover, where he moved into a house at 3 Jägerstrasse .

The linguistically gifted and well-traveled businessman was also a staunch Christian . And so the wealthy was inspired by the senior and Protestant pastor of the Aegidien church community , Wilhelm Blumenberg , to set up a foundation : In the middle of World War I , Brandt donated a total of 3 million gold marks on June 2, 1916 . His Gustav Brandt'sche Foundation was to serve as a freelance sponsor of a still-to-be-built old people's home for “ good, needy Christian men from the merchant class”.

Gustav Brandt died in May 1918, a few months before the end of the First World War. He was buried in the Brandt-Primavesi family grave at the Stöcken city cemetery. Brandt was no longer able to experience the “devastating economic consequences” of World War I, such as the devaluation of money due to German hyperinflation . Nevertheless, the “ Hindenburg Stadium ”, today's Eilenriede Stadium , could be built posthumously from the remaining Brandt foundation assets in the young Weimar Republic by 1922 .

The construction of an old people's home desired by Brandt was delayed until the Nazi era : “The foundation stone was not laid until May 10, 1937 ”, but after just under a year the home on Bischofsholer Damm was “opened on April 1, 1938 [ ...] ready for occupancy ".

Honors

  • In 1924 a street between the Hanoverian districts of Bult and Waldhausen was named after the benefactor and founder of the foundation.

literature

  • K. Nagel: Gustav Brandt . Hanover, 1940.
  • 40 years old people's home of the Gustav Brandt Foundation 1938–1978 . Ed. By the board of the Gustav Brandt Foundation, [o. D., 1978].
  • Dirk Böttcher : BRANDT, (1) Caspar Justus Gustav . 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. 68; online through google books .
  • Dirk Böttcher: Brandt, (1) Caspar Justus Gustav . 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. 79.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Dirk Böttcher: BRANDT, (1) ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Brandt, (1) Caspar ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon probably still mentions the year “1827” as the “number turner”, a year in which Gustav Brandt was not even born. This error has been corrected in the Hannover City Lexicon.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f N. N .: The story ... (see under the section web links )
  5. ^ Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : BLUMENBERG, Wilhelm. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 58; online through google books
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Stöckener Strasse 66-68. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 201f.
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandt, Caspar Justus Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, manufacturer and founder
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1918
Place of death Hanover