Heinrich Leo Behncke

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Heinrich Leo Behncke

Heinrich Leo Behncke (born December 26, 1819 in Lübeck ; † January 26, 1914 there ) was a Lübeck wine merchant and politician.

Life

Heinrich Leo Behncke was the son of the Lübeck merchant Wilhelm Ludwig Behncke (1783–1850). He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and began his commercial apprenticeship in 1836 at the Minlos company in Lübeck, which dealt with forwarding business and import and export. After two years he switched to his father's wine trade, founded in 1814, to learn to be a cooper. In 1841 he made two educational trips to meet business friends, the first to Scandinavia and the second through Western Europe to the Iberian Peninsula. In 1842 he joined his father's company in Lübeck with his brother Wilhelm and subsequently undertook the necessary sales trips for the wine shop to suppliers and customers across Europe. After the death of his father, he ran the very respected wine shop in Lübeck together with his brother until his death in 1882, then alone until his own son and son-in-law joined the company. After his brother Wilhelm's death, he took over the consulate of Great Britain, which he continued as a merchant in 1893 when he retired and only handed it over to his son in 1906. Behncke was interested in agriculture and from 1891 owned a farm in Lübeck-Vorwerk. Two years before his death he bought the Mecklenburg estate Nutteln on Mickowsee near Brüel . For this he had Fritz Behn cast the Lübeck lions in 1913 , which are now on the Burgtorbrücke in Lübeck.

  • Left castle gate lion

  • ... and the right one

Behncke was also involved in voluntary work in the city center in addition to his corporate responsibility. He was a member of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce as a member of the board of the Lübeck merchants , at times as deputy president. As a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck, he was in its leadership from 1883 to 1889. He was a member of the Lübeck citizenship from 1862 to 1864 and again from 1880 to 1885.

Behncke, who from 1840 regularly kept a diary of his travels, also wrote an extensive family history in four volumes. His extensive private legacy and the company books are in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

family

House of the wine merchant Consul Behncke in the Schüsselbuden 2

Behncke was married to Caroline Hayen († 1868), daughter of the Oldenburg lawyer Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen . From this marriage the only son and three daughters were born. In his second marriage in 1876, he married Martha Deiss, daughter of the reformed Lübeck clergyman Wilhelm Deiss. Behncke lived in the Bellevue Castle in Lübeck from 1860 to 1891 as a summer house . In 1904 he bought the summer house at Am Burgfeld 11 in Lübeck. The residential building with wine trade and consulate in Lübeck's old town was located at Schüsselbuden 2 on the corner of Mengstrasse . It was rebuilt in 1832 including some parts of the previous building. It was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942. The Gothic vaulted cellar and a wall painting on the south wall of the first floor from 1331/38 have been preserved and integrated into the new building from 1958.

The Emperor founded in October 1898, the Red Cross Medal in three classes. On the occasion of his birthday, January 27, she was at the Lübeck citizens in 2nd class Miss Julie Kierulff, Mrs. Consul Behncke (born Fehling), Ms. assistant medical Türk and Mr Landrichter a. D. Priess and in 3rd grade to Consul Possehl , Dr. Wichmann , Attorney Priess, Consul Rehder, Consul Marty, Dr. Hammerich, Dr. Hofstaetter, Physikus Riedel, Dr. Schorer and the businessman Schetelig .

The building at Schüsselbuden 2 in Lübeck in 2018.

Fonts

  • A Lübeck merchant family , 4 volumes, Rahtgens, Lübeck 1900–1913

literature

  • Alken Bruns: Behncke, Heinrich Leo in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 12, pp. 32–34
  • Jan Zimmermann : St. Gertrud 1860–1945: a photographic foray. Bremen: Edition Temmen 2007, pp. 15, 34 ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Three Kings Behind Glass , in: Citizens' Messages of BIRL , No. 109, Spring 2012, p. 16 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), See also description on Lübeck wall painting @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xn--lbeck13-n2a.de
  2. ↑ Joach. Ludo. Albr. sen. Priess
  3. ↑ Georg Albr. jr. Priess
  4. ↑ James Carl Rehder
  5. ^ Wilhelm Marty
  6. ↑ Ad. Joh. Carl Hammerich
  7. ↑ Ed. Carl. Gust. Hofstaetter
  8. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 6, edition of February 5, 1899, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Behncke, Heinrich Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck wine merchant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1914
Place of death Lübeck