Hermann Marchand

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Hermann Marchand (born July 7, 1864 in Prenzlau , † April 24, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and urban developer .

Act

Grave slab of Hermann Marchand in the Kreuzkirchhof in Lankwitz. Coordinates of the grave: 52 ° 25 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 30.5 ″  E

The lawyer Hermann Marchand was an accountant at the Reich Justice Office in Berlin.

In 1901 the merchant and private real estate entrepreneur Georg Knaak bought a large agricultural area in the south of the Lankwitz district . This area was then parceled out and sold on and is now located between Trippsteinstrasse in the west and Malteserstrasse (then Marienfelder Strasse) in the east. However, there was no valid development plan , so that the area was poorly developed and only a few, mainly smaller buildings were built.

The approximately 250 new owners founded the Lankwitz-Süd landowner association in 1903 , which represented their interests in relation to the Lankwitz community. Hermann Marchand, who was its first chairman from the beginning until 1912, was co-founder of the association. In order to achieve the goals of the association, he negotiated skilfully with the community, so that the local development and streets were finally recognized. This averted great financial damage to the new owners. In return, the association committed itself to undertake and finance the development of the building area itself.

Even after recognition by the municipality, it took decades until all roads were paved and illuminated, and drinking water pipes and sewage systems were laid. In Berlin vernacular , the term "small towns" was common for this area because of it. Hermann Marchand himself lived in this quarter on Brotteroder Strasse. He died on April 24, 1945 together with his son Hermann (born February 19, 1892 in Forst ), apparently still doing military service . Both are buried next to each other in the Kreuzkirchhof on Malteserstraße in Lankwitz-Süd in the grave field for the victims of war and tyranny at the grave sites F-004-023 and F-004-024.

Honor

During his time in the landowners association, Hermann Marchand made major contributions to the urban development and construction of the area, which is now also known as the Thuringian Quarter because of the street names . When the Lankwitz town hall was inaugurated on September 2, 1911, the mayor Rudolf Beyendorff renamed the street, which was still referred to as Straße 28 in the development plan, to Marchandstraße. This street name was officially registered on February 2, 1912.

Publications

  • 25 years of work by the Lankwitz-Süd eV landowner association - 1903–1928 , publisher of the Lankwitz-Süd landowner association, Berlin-Lankwitz (1928)

literature

  • Paul Hiller: Chronicle Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 60 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Marchand (senior), Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , accessed on January 26, 2019
  2. ^ Hermann Marchand (Junior), Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , accessed on January 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Marchandstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Marchand, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and urban developer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1945
Place of death Berlin