Heinrich Stegmann

Heinrich Stegmann among the “Kleiderseller” on September 21, 1890 (each from left):
Group of three top left: Johannes Fehn, Heinrich Stegmann, Otto Haeusler Group of
five top right: Friedrich Brauns, von der Osten, Ulrich Kirchenpauer, Seeck, Bodenstein
penultimate row from below (seated): Adolf Bäbenroth, Thiel
Bottom row: Wilhelm Raabe , Wilhelm Brandes , Heinrich Büssing

Heinrich Stegmann (born March 25, 1846 in Bückeburg ; † November 28, 1901 in Braunschweig ) was a German engineer, director and partner in the signal construction factory M. Jüdel & Co. in Braunschweig. He was a close friend of the poet Wilhelm Raabe .

Life

Stegmann was the oldest child of a tax officer in Lippe. He grew up in Hagenburg am Steinhuder Meer , where he attended the village school. He completed a business apprenticeship in Hanover . Stegmann went to Braunschweig, where he married in 1870 and pursued various professional activities. In the second half of the 1870s he joined the & Co. Signalbaufabrik M. Jüdel one. In this company he worked as an engineer, director and partner until his death in 1901.

Stegmann had lived in the Krähenfeld district of Braunschweig since 1878 at Salzdahlumer Strasse 6, where he was one of Wilhelm Raabe's neighbors and friends. Both were active in the sociable association of clothing sellers . Stegmann wrote a work published in 1893 on the history of the Fürstenberg porcelain factory in the 18th century, which Wilhelm Raabe used as inspiration and template for the story Hastenbeck .

Fonts

• Else and now: a chat to celebrate the completion of the thousandth turnout control system by the Max Jüdel & Co. railway signal construction company in Braunschweig , Hof-Buchdruckerei Julius Krampe, Braunschweig, 1892.
• The Princely Braunschweig porcelain factory in Fürstenberg. A contribution to the history of the applied arts and the economic conditions in the eighteenth century , Verlag Benno Goeritz, Braunschweig, 1893.

literature

• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweigs Literaten , Braunschweig, 2003, p. 125.
• Hans Stegmann: Heinrich Stegmann . In: Heinrich Spiero (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe and his circle of life , Hermann Klemm Publishing House, Berlin-Grunewald, 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweiger Ausgabe, Volume 20, 2nd edition, Göttingen 2001, p. 460.