Heinrich Radbruch

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Heinrich Georg Bernhard Radbruch (born August 8, 1841 in Kiel , † March 26, 1922 in Lübeck ) was a German wholesale merchant and member of the Lübeck citizenship .

Life

education

After Obertertia at the Kieler Gelehrtenschule Heinrich Easter 1857 began his four-year commercial apprenticeship at the company Aug. bush and Classen, grocery en Gros et en detail in Luebeck. The commercial building with the store for the retail business was located in the Breite Strasse on the corner of the Fleischhauerstrasse and was later owned by the Ferd company . Kayser took over the store in Fleischhauerstraße 955 (now 41).

After two years, August Friedrich Busch parted ways with Heinrich Christian Carl Classen and the retail business. Together with the Aug. Busch company, he founded a new wholesale business on the large property of the former Grabau stoneware company in Königstraße (today 71) at Hüxstraße 870 . The agency of the London Eagle Life Insurance Company, his colleague Gustav Severin and the traveler Albert Genzke moved with Radbruch . Joch worked under Radbruch. Heinr. Dan. Warrior. Soon afterwards he became a town hall servant .

At that time there were two respected wholesalers selling colonial goods in Lübeck. They were the houses A. Behn & Sohn and Friedr. Matthiesen . The new company that followed them should soon become synonymous with them.

career

In 1872 Radbruch, who had returned to Kiel after completing his training, moved to Lübeck and from April 1, 1872 ran an agency, commission and insurance business there with the Heinrich G. Radbruch company . For many years he was a representative of the Lübeck fire insurance association for rural residents, founded in 1826, and owner of numerous large agencies. In 1875 he became a member of the business community , was a regular visitor to the Lübeck Stock Exchange and was soon considered to be one of the most insightful experts in the commercial field .

In the supplementary election for citizenship in the II electoral district ( Johannis Quartier and the suburb of St. Jürgen ) on June 27, 1887, Radbruch was elected to the citizenship for the father city association , belonged to it until 1899 and was repeatedly a member of the citizens' committee . As the successor to the resigning Johannes Boye , the Senate elected him on October 5, 1889 as a civil deputy at the administrative authority for municipal institutions. The Father City Association appointed him on April 15, 1891 as one of the constituencies' stewards for the upcoming township elections. On May 26, 1891, the district assembly of the members of the Fatherland Association took place under his leadership . The candidates for the next state election were chosen on it.

W. Gädeke was elected on January 14, 1893 instead of the resigning Radbruch as a civil deputy to the appraisal commissions for the determination of the utility value of the land and buildings of the city and its suburbs . At the 10th anniversary of the Father City Association on February 8, 1893, Radbruch was once again elected steward for the upcoming mayor elections. Shortly thereafter, he was elected chairman of the X district elections. In the supplementary election for citizenship in the second constituency (Johannis Quartier and the suburb of St. Jürgen) on June 23, 1893, he was re-elected to the citizenship with 751 votes. In place of the resigning Georg Carl Hahn , the Senate elected him to the civil deputy at the billing commission . On June 17, 1899 , the Senate elected Wilhelm Heinsohn as his successor in the commission . The citizens' committee elected him at its meeting on October 18, 1893 as the shop steward for the election of lay judges and jury members .

The dispatch of a shipment of gifts of love for German Southwest Africa

During the Herero uprising , Radbruch was a member of the Lübeck Aid Committee for the Nursing of the Protection Force in German South West Africa . It sent gifts of love to the hospitals in Lüderitz Bay . Mrs. Wolpmann, a member of the Patriotic Women's Association in Lübeck, which forms the majority of the committee , and he received the red from the Kaiser in October 1905 as people "who had distinguished themselves through willingness to sacrifice voluntary nursing for the protection force in German Southwest Africa" Cross Medal III. Class awarded. All members of the committee received the medal in steel on ribbon on March 9, 1908 for special services in supporting the troops in South West Africa .

Another not-for-profit institution that enjoyed his care was the Wesloer Waldschule . This began at a public meeting organized by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on June 8, 1907, about the welfare centers for lung patients and forest recreation centers in other places . At this meeting were also privy Pütter from the Charité and the Secretary of the Society for Social Medicine, Hygiene, ... Dr. Lennhof was invited as organizers of the Berlin welfare center for lung patients and the forest recovery center . The committee was constituted seven days later and Radbruch became its treasurer to create the above-mentioned site. After the chairwoman and other women of the Red Cross as well as the senior sister had studied the facilities of the Berlin and Charlottenburg recreation centers on site, the Weslo forest recreation center was opened just 24 days later, on July 7, 1907. The site was open from July 8th to October 1st, 1907 for the first fiscal year. Despite a rainy summer, she had developed positively.

During the First World War , Radbruch was in a leading position in favor of the Red Cross nursing and troop supply. He set up several "Red Cross warrior homes". In the Hanseatic city, as the “finance minister” and administrator of the camp for coal and love gifts, he kept in touch with all the troops deployed from Lübeck ( Infantry Brigade 81 , the 162 or the Children's Regiment 215) and formations in which Lübeck were assigned (from Parts of the 162s, the 187s were formed) upright. As cashier and warehouse manager, he carried out the purchase and dispatch of the various gifts of love to be distributed to the troops and hospitals with great care . As a delegate of the Red Cross, he had the rank of major . Despite his old age, in this capacity he repeatedly visited the units in the field on various fronts to inquire about their needs on site. For this he was repeatedly honored in a special way by both the emperor and the senate.

After the end of the war, he withdrew more and more from public life due to age.

On his 80th birthday, among other things, he was awarded honorary membership of the Patriotic Women's Association by the Red Cross.

family

Heinrich Georg Bernhard Radbruch was married to Emma (1842–1916), a native of Prahl. She was the daughter of a Lübeck goldsmith and confectioner.

Gustav Radbruch was his son and at the time of his death Reich Minister of Justice . He was one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Radbruch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Lübecker Feuerversicherung became part of the Württembergische Feuerversicherungs-A.-G. on.
  2. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 29, number 52, edition of June 29, 1887, p. 280.
  3. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 31, number 81, edition of October 9, 1889, p. 456.
  4. ↑ Father City Association. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 33, number 91, edition of April 19, 1891, p. 189.
  5. ↑ On the citizenship election. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; 33rd volume, number 42, edition of May 27, 1891, p. 251.
  6. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th year, number 6, edition of January 18, 1893, p. 36.
  7. ↑ Father City Association. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th vol., Number 13, edition of February 18, 1893, pp. 76-77.
  8. ↑ Citizens' Committee. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th volume, number 32, edition of April 19, 1893, p. 187.
  9. ↑ citizenship election. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th vol., Number 51, edition of June 25, 1893, pp. 298-299.
  10. ↑ Local and mixed notes. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; 35th volume, number 51, edition of June 25, 1893, p. 300.
  11. ↑ Local Notes. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 41, number 27, edition of July 2, 1899, p. 338.
  12. ^ Citizens' Committee on October 18, 1893. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 35, number 84, edition of October 18, 1893, p. 487.
  13. ↑ Love gifts for German South West Africa. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1905, no. 16, edition of April 16, 1905, pp. 64–65.
  14. ↑ Mrs. Wolpmann was the wife of the Lübeck Senator Emil Wolpmann .
  15. ↑ Weekly chronicle from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1905, No. 42, edition of October 15, 1905, p. 184.
  16. ^ Red Cross Medal 3rd Class 1898 in steel
  17. ↑ Weekly Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1908, No. 11, edition of March 15, 1908, p. 44.
  18. ^ The forest recreation site for men in Wesloe. , in: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 50, number 7, edition of February 16, 1908, pp. 95-97.
  19. ^ Trench warfare between Roye and Noyon. In Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling , 1922 Oldenburg i. Cit. , P. 65.
  20. ↑ Daily report. In: Lübeck advertisements. , Volume 171, edition A, Abend-Blatt, No. 366, edition of August 8, 1921.
  21. ↑ Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1921/22, No. 24, edition of August 14, 1921, p. 96.
  22. ↑ Life data according to ADB / NDB added.
personal data
SURNAME Radbruch, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radbruch, Heinrich Georg Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wholesale merchant and member of the Lübeck citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1922
Place of death Lübeck