Hermann Bamberg

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Hermann Bamberg (born July 26, 1846 in Wittenberge , Brandenburg province , † October 4, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish businessman and Berlin local politician. He made a name for himself as the senior boss of the textile company Gebr. Manheimer and as a long-time member of the Berlin city council .

Life

Honorary grave of Hermann Bamberg in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Bamberg completed an apprenticeship in his father's manufactured goods store in Wittenberge and in 1870 joined the Manheimer brothers' women's coat factory in Berlin, which Valentin and David Manheimer co-founded and of which he became a partner in 1876.

In 1900 he was elected to the Berlin city council, of which he was a member until his death. He held various positions, for example in the area of ​​health care, with the city bank, the exhibition company and with various finance and tax authorities. As an entrepreneur he was a member of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce , and he was also chairman of the Association of German Clothing Industry Associations . In 1904 he joined the Society of Friends .

After the First World War , Hermann Bamberg was appointed to the Provisional Reich Economic Council and also worked as a commercial judge for 26 years . On June 24, 1926, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Berlin for his services .

Hermann Bamberg died on October 4, 1928 at the age of 82 in his apartment in Berlin-Tiergarten of an attack of flu . His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . The last resting place of Hermann Bamberg (grave location: 5-1) is dedicated as an honor grave of the state of Berlin . Since Bamberg was an honorary citizen of Berlin, the dedication - in contrast to the large majority of Berlin's honorary graves - is not limited in time.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Bamberg † . In: Vossische Zeitung . Thursday October 4, 1928, evening edition. P. 3.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 483.
  3. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 3. Accessed on November 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ On the non-time limit for honorary graves for honorary citizens, see: Implementing Regulations for Section 12, Paragraph 6 of the Cemetery Act (AV Ehrengrabstätten) . (PDF, 24 kB) from August 15, 2007, paragraph 4. Accessed on November 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bamberg, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish businessman and local politician in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1928
Place of death Berlin