Hermann Wilhelm Fehling

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Hermann Fehling

Hermann Wilhelm Fehling (born April 23, 1842 in Lübeck ; † December 7, 1907 there ) was a wholesale merchant and a so-called "project maker".

Life

origin

Hermann Wilhelm came from the Lübeck family Fehling . He was a son of the businessman Johannes Christoph Fehling (* August 7, 1800 in Lübeck; † October 17, 1882 ibid) and his wife Anna Emilia, née Oppenheimer (* August 8, 1803 in Hamburg; † June 5, 1885 in Lübeck) .

In addition to his sister Adele, who married the future mayor of Lübeck Heinrich Theodor Behn , he had two brothers, the future senator Johannes Fehling and the future mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling .

career

Fehling first attended the Carsten School and then the Katharineum . Subsequently, he was as an apprentice in the old connections to Finland entertaining company Jac. Ludw. Bruhns & Sohn discontinued. His life's work should be based on the pillars of trade , shipping and industry in connection with his motto “ inserviendo consumor ”. At the age of 21, he had the opportunity to work independently with an older colleague, Heinrich Piehl . The action company Piehl & Fehling , who also used the connections to Finland, was known far beyond the borders of Lübeck. By the time he died, the company had developed into a wholesale business with him as senior partner.

Unlike other young businessmen Fehling could take no longer stay abroad. Only in later years was he able to use his business trips to broaden his perspective and to get to know new people.

The young Fehling , who was well versed in many administrative subjects, was elected to the Lübeck citizenship as early as 1871, at the time when measures to improve and expand station facilities and the conditions in the Traven area were being discussed. The Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft submitted a draft contract on April 5, 1872 . It was about the sale of the Lübeck railways, about 28,000 of which were in the hands of the state. Part of the contract should include the expansion of the Lübeck-Travemünde railway line . However, the treaty was not to come about because of the rejection of all territorial governments involved , except for the Free State . However, Fehling's influence on state rail policy grew.

Fehling was in the periods 1884/85 and 1900/01 the deputy of the spokesman for the citizenship and from 1878 to 1906 member of the citizens' committee . He was deputy spokesman for this committee in 1882/83, 1895/96, 1898/99, 1902/03 and 1905/06. He was a long-time member of the Finance Department and was a civil deputy of the Canal Authority .

Laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal

Three years after his company was founded, Fehling joined the Lübeck merchants' association and was elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce on June 21, 1891. Already a member of the commission for the promotion and utilization of the canal , his name should be inextricably linked with the Elbe-Trave canal and be appropriately recognized. On May 31, 1895, he took part in the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone of the canal in the Hanseatic city. After the blows with the silver hammer by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Theodor Schorer , with the words "A blessing for industry and trade", he hit the granite stone as President of the Canal Association, followed by Senator Alfred Stooß . After the canal was completed, he was to be appointed President of the Chamber three times - 1898/00, 1903/04 and 1906/07. At the opening of the canal he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class by the present emperor . When the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin stayed in the city on October 25, 1902 after Fehling's first term in office, he was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Griffin in his presence . He was a member of the commission for the reorganization of the merchant class and was involved in the promotion of the railway connections in Lübeck and the expansion of the seaports. He promoted the industry by participating in the founding of the blast furnace plant and being a member of the committee of the German Trade Conference and executive chairman of the Segeberg-Lübeck railway committee . During the preparations for the German-Russian trade treaty , he advocated maintaining relations with Finland. For this engagement he received the Stanislaus Order 2nd Class in 1904 and was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Wasa Order by the Swedish King on January 14, 1907 .

The fiftieth anniversary of the merchants' association and chamber of commerce took place under his presidium in September 1903. Fehling stood on the day that his father occupied in 1853 as the first president of the newly founded chamber.

Following the wishes of his political friends, Fehling was put up as a candidate for the National Liberal Party in 1887 for election to the 3rd German Reichstag in order to represent local and general commercial interests through a businessman in the Reichstag. He was then elected to the Reichstag for Lübeck until 1890 . On the occasion of a debate about the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, he gave a Reichstag speech on the importance and general benefits of the Elbe-Trave Canal to be created, which made an impression on the competent authority.

In the service of the general public, Fehling had initiated the construction of a Lübeck horse-drawn tram , which was to become the leader in domestic local traffic . After it was converted into an electric tram by a Berlin company , he was also a member of its administration. He was a committee member of the Lübeck-Büchener railway and railway council of the royal railway administration in Altona .

For several years he was Austrian consul in Lübeck until his many other obligations led him to resign from office . However, even after the resignation he was addressed in Lübeck as "Consul Fehling".

Fehling sought his diversion in Travemünde , which he used as a summer stay for many years. In the wake of the devastating floods of the Baltic Sea in 1872 , Fehling made a contribution to fortifying the coast and expanding the bathing operations around Travemünde. The founding of the Travemünder Races , the bringing to life of the regattas , were his work. The city showed him its gratitude by granting him honorary citizenship in 1890 . When Travemünde was incorporated into Lübeck in 1913, years after his death, Lübeck took over honorary citizenship.

He co-founded the Lübeck-Travemünder Rennclub and the Lübeck Yacht Club . In the latter he was the first chairman in 1898.

As Lübeck's Hanseatic League , Fehling also supported his city's welfare institutions . He was a member of the board of directors of various benevolent foundations, for example that of the orphanage .

On the evening before his bowel operation , Fehling was active in an advisory capacity on the administrative committee of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway. A few days later he died as a result of the operation.

family

On July 14, 1865, he married Bertha Eschenburg (1846–1926), the daughter of Johann Daniel Eschenburg - the marriage resulted in 9 children. The eldest daughter Elisabeth married on July 14, 1885 Dr. med. Otto Schmiedicke. Their marriage resulted in three daughters (Vera, Stefanie and Ruth Schmiedicke). Vera Schmiedicke married the Bergassessor Friedrich Hoernecke on May 21, 1905. Their marriage resulted in Christa (* 1906), Friedrich (* 1909) and Brigitte (* 1913) Hoernecke. Married in 1899, she married Wilhelm König, who died on October 6, 1915 as commander of the infantry regiment "Prinz Carl" (4th Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 118 .

Awards

Medal of honor of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce

When Fehling resigned at the end of his second term of office, the deputy president Rabe, by unanimous decision of the chamber, awarded him the highest honor of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce in his last meeting in the office of merchants on December 30, 1904 with their medal in gold.

In the document attached to the coin it was stated that he was concerned with the creation of the Elbe-Trave Canal, the utilization of the waterway, the work for the expansion of the seaports, the design of the Lübeck traffic routes, the recently granted basic permission for Building the economically valuable railway Segeberg-Lübeck and maintaining the exchange of goods with Finland.

monument

Fehlingstein in Travemünde, unveiled on July 2, 1908
Fehlingstein on the promenade in Travemünde

After Fehling's death, a memorial stone, the so-called Fehlingstein, was erected in Travemünde in 1908.

The memorial bears the inscription :

To the sponsor Travemündes

Consul Hermann Fehling

in July 1908

Furthermore, on the Brodtener Ufer between Travemünde and Niendorf, a special place on the steep bank , where he particularly liked to be, was named Hermannshöhe . Later the restaurant of the same name was built here.

Trivia

After Senator Mann's death on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Krafft Tesdorpf were appointed guardians of the five children he left behind.

Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks (1901), for which he later received the Nobel Prize and which has references to real people in Lübeck, we meet Krafft Tesdorpf as the wine merchant Stephan Kistenmaker , Consul Fehling as Consul Hermann Hagenström and Johann Daniel Eschenburg as Senator Huneus .

literature

  • Hermann Fehling † , In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 51, edition of December 15, 1907, p. 201.
  • Hermann Fehling † , In: Von Lübecks Türmen , 17th volume, no. 50, edition of December 14, 1907, pp. 399–400.
  • Hermann Wilhelm Fehling , In: Lübeckische Blätter . , Volume 49, number 50, edition of December 15, 1907, pp. 707-710.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Wilhelm Fehling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bardenhewer bought Piehl & Fehling
  2. ^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.
  3. ↑ Local Notes , In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 42, Number 26, Edition of June 14, 1900, p. 349.
  4. ↑ Local Notes , In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 44, Number 43, Issue of October 26, 1902, p. 538.
  5. ↑ weeks Chronicle of Lübeck and its environs: ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 3, edition of January 17, 1904, p. 12.
  6. ↑ weeks Chronicle of Lübeck and its environs: ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 4, edition of January 20, 1907, p. 16.
  7. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Fehling. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 49th year, number 50, edition of December 15, 1907, p. 709.
  8. ↑ Lübecker Yacht-Club (Ed.): The Lübecker Yacht-Club and 100 changeful years , Lübeck 1998
  9. ^ Alken Bruns: Lübeck résumés. Wachholtz-Verlag, 2009
  10. ↑ In the obituaries of Wilhelm König from 1915 it is mentioned that he married the daughter of the incumbent president in 1899.
  11. ^ The coin of honor of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce. In: Father City Leaves , No. 3, January 15, 1905 edition, pp. 11-12.
  12. ↑ What the order was in a monarchical state was a simple commemorative coin in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, which was based on self-administration. Three such medals are awarded in Lübeck. The first was awarded by the Senate, the second by the Chamber of Commerce and the third by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .
  13. ^ The monument to Hermann Fehling in Travemünde. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 28, edition of July 5, 1906, p. 108.
  14. ^ Buddenbrooks - List of real names
personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Hermann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehling, Hermann Wilhelm the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician (NLP), MdR, Austrian honorary consul in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1907
Place of death Lübeck