Heinrich Gaedertz

Heinrich Gaedertz (* 1813 in Lübeck ; † 1904 there ) was a Lübeck businessman and politician.

Life

Heinrich Gaedertz was the first son of the Lübeck merchant and senator Johann Heinrich Gaedertz and his wife Salome Croll. He worked as a ship broker in Lübeck and became a member of the citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in the revolutionary year of 1848 . By auctioning his father's art collection in 1864, he and his siblings made a substantial fortune. His commitment to the common good of the city has been handed down in writing in several lectures, and in his will he designated a new charitable foundation to be his heir.

Heinrich Gaedertz was given a grave of honor in the Burgtorfriedhof . He was married to Hjertha Walcke-Schuldt . The lawyer Theodor Gaedertz was his younger brother.

Heinrich-Gaedertz-Stift

The Heinrich-Gaedertz-Stift , which still exists today, was built by the foundation until 1909 at Curtiusstraße 3–5 in Lübeck's city park. Today it is listed as a cultural monument and was renovated in 2012 by the Lübeck Building Association with the support of the Possehl Foundation , as the Gaedertz Foundation had lost a large part of its original assets of 800,000 gold marks in the inflation between the world wars. Nonetheless, the foundation under civil law with legal capacity is still independent today.

The beneficiaries were originally "worthy and needy men who belong to the merchant or seaman's class"; they should get “free housing and heating and free lunch”. For the first time in Lübeck there was a home for “educated old men”, who previously only had access to the Holy Spirit Hospital , while the colleges such as the Füchtingshof and the Haasenhof were reserved for women. Today the pen is occupied by older men and women who pay rent.

Fonts

Chats and non-profit suggestions , HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1892
Reflections on the future of Lübeck: Lecture , Lübeck 1898
From my birthday folder: in memory of the 90th birthday of Heinrich Gaedertz , Abel, Lübeck, 1903

literature

Lübeck State Calendar to the year 1849 , Lübeck 1849, pp. 19–21
Jan Zimmermann : St. Gertrud 1860-1945. A photographic foray. Bremen 2007, p. 86 ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Gaedertz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Renovation of the listed residential monastery completed. In: WE! Magazine of the Lübecker Bauverein , 2012, issue No. 4, p. 12 (PDF).
↑ ^a ^b Renovation of the Heinrich Gaedertz Foundation. In: Yearbook of the Possehl Foundation. 2012, p. 16 (PDF).
↑ Foundation database of the State of Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on November 7, 2017.
↑ Local notes: [Establishing a home for educated old men.] In: Lübeckische Blätter . Vol. 49, 1907, No. 24, p. 334.

personal data
SURNAME	Gaedertz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lübeck businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	1904
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Renovation of the listed residential monastery completed. In: WE! Magazine of the Lübecker Bauverein , 2012, issue No. 4, p. 12 (PDF).

[posselt-2] Renovation of the Heinrich Gaedertz Foundation. In: Yearbook of the Possehl Foundation. 2012, p. 16 (PDF).

[3] Foundation database of the State of Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on November 7, 2017.

[4] Local notes: [Establishing a home for educated old men.] In: Lübeckische Blätter . Vol. 49, 1907, No. 24, p. 334.