Hotel Huebner

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The new building in 2013

The Hotel Huebner is a hotel in Warnemünde .

history

In 1805 Friedrich Gustav Huebner was born in Saal as the son of a flag smith . After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Rostock , he acquired citizenship there in 1833. He settled down as a ship chandler on the Burgwall, later he was also active in the export of beer and grain to England. By the middle of the 19th century he owned five ships, including the galeas Catharina Maria . In addition to his other activities, Hübner was also the tenant and operator of the seaside bathing establishments in Warnemünde. In 1853 he added a hot bathing house at Seestrasse 12 to the offer for guests, which also offered overnight accommodation. Friedrich Gustav Huebner continued to expand this first Hotel Huebner until his death in 1879. His four children inherited a handsome fortune.

Wilhelm Hübner, who ran the hotel from 1880, bought several adjoining houses and thus enlarged both the hotel and the family assets. After Wilhelm Hübner's death in 1932, the two sons Albert and Richard (Albert Hübner was mentioned by Walter Kempowski as a daring motorcyclist in Schöne Aussichten ) took over the hotel; two other sons of Wilhelm Huebner were killed in the First World War . In 1939 the hotel had 305 beds.

In the last years of the Second World War , the hotel was confiscated and converted into a hospital . After the Soviet Army marched into Rostock, the owners of the hotel managed to prevent the buildings from being destroyed, but most of the furniture was hacked up. The Red Army used the facility as soldiers' quarters for a year. In 1946 two floors of the hotel were reopened; however, the guests had to bring their own food and bedding. A little later, in 1949, it was converted into the Warnow shipyard's apprentice dormitory under the name Kurt Bürger after Albert Huebner was arrested and imprisoned in the penitentiary. He spent eleven months there without being charged. In the course of Aktion Rose , the Hübner family was expropriated without compensation in 1953. Albert and Richard Hübner left with their families in the West, whereby Albert Hübner took the property tax assessments for all 13 properties that had belonged to the family in 1953 in Warnemünde. While Richard Huebner ran a guesthouse in Hamburg after his escape , Albert Huebner leased a hotel in Bad Harzburg . As a pensioner, he moved to Travemünde to be closer to his former home. He did not live to see the reunification of Germany.

After the expropriation, the hotel was taken over by the HO restaurants in 1960 and then run as a "beach hotel". The sons of Albert Huebner asserted their claims as a community of heirs after the end of the GDR and were able to enforce them quickly with the help of the saved documents. Peter Huebner, who was 15 when he fled, took over the hotel and reopened it in 1996. His children Jost and Anna became silent partners.

The old Hotel Hübner, in which guests such as Hans Albers , Barbara Hutton , the Krupp family and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg and in 1871 Theodor Fontane stayed , had to give way to a new building.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Koch: Illustrated Chronicle of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Ingo Koch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-864-36039-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ^ According to Friedrich Wilhelm Schütz: The seaside resort of Warnemünde on the Baltic Sea ... 1843, p. 2 ( limited preview in the Google book search), there was a bathhouse in Warnemünde as early as 1834.
  3. ^ Roland Berbig: Theodor Fontane Chronicle . De Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-110-18910-0 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Gehrke, where Hans Albers once stayed. The old Warnemünder Hotel "Hübner" in new splendor , in: Wolf-Dietrich Gehrke, people under seven towers. Rostocker Familiengeschichten edited by Ulrich B. Vetter , Konrad Reich Verlag Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86167-095-X , pp. 46–51

Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 48 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 57 ″  E