Hugo Erich von Boehmer

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Hugo Erich von Boehmer

(Hugo) Erich von Boehmer (born December 15, 1857 in Potsdam ; † July 11, 1939 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German engineer , a secret government councilor , patent attorney and co-editor of the specialist journal "Gesundheitsingenieur".

Live and act

Erich von Boehmer was the fourth of eight children of the royal district judge Justus Henning Friedrich von Böhmer (1807–1867) and Friederike Auguste von Görtzke (1823–1866) and thus came from the fifth generation of Justus Henning Böhmer from the Böhmer / von Boehmer family of lawyers from. Four of his siblings died in childhood, he himself became orphaned with the remaining ones at the age of 10 and therefore had to complete his school days in the civil orphanage in Potsdam.

In 1873, for financial reasons, Boehmer began an apprenticeship at Schäfer & Heuschner , a stock corporation for gas and water systems in Berlin, which took him over as an employee after passing his final exam. In 1877 he moved to Rietschel & Henneberg , heating and air conditioning technology , and was preparing for admission to the Technical University of Karlsruhe . After a volunteer year with the guard regiment in 1881 , he was finally able to study mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe from 1882 onwards, with a scholarship from his employer and later holder of the first chair for "ventilation and heating" Hermann Rietschel .

After completing his studies, von Boehmer was initially taken over by the company Poßmann & Kühnemann in 1886 , managed its branch in Budapest until 1888 and then switched to the entrepreneur Johannes Einbeck as a civil engineer . After he had founded the accumulator factory Müller & Einbeck with Adolph Müller , Boehmer took over their Stuttgart office, but in 1889 he moved to Munich , where he opened his own engineering office. There he represented well-known companies until 1899, for example, as general agent for southern Germany, Sulzer AG from Winterthur and Eisenwerk (formerly Nagel & Kaemp) AG from Hamburg . As a member of the board of the permanent specialist congress for heating and ventilation, he headed its Munich congress in 1898. At that time he gave lasting support to Alois Riedler's efforts to improve the training, legal situation, remuneration and social recognition of engineers.

In the spring of 1899, von Boehmer decided to move to the Imperial Patent Office , where he was promoted to the Imperial Government Council in May 1899 and a few years later to the Secret Government Council and finally to the Upper Government Council, and from 1912 he became a member of the Office's Complaints and Invalidity Department. During the First World War he was employed as a captain and company commander, initially in the stage for guarding prisoner- of- war camps, first the large prisoner camp in Zossen-Wünsdorf , then in 1916 the one near Hanau . He was later transferred to the General Government of Belgium in Brussels and Flanders as head of a pioneer unit , from where he returned to his work in the patent office in Berlin at the end of 1918 as part of the evacuation of Belgium . After reaching retirement age, he retired at the end of September 1923 . At the age of 66, he began to prepare for the patent attorney exam, which he finally passed in 1928. Immediately afterwards he founded a patent office in Berlin, which he continued like his editorial work until the end of his life.

From 1904 until his death, von Boehmer was a member of the editorial staff of the specialist journal “Der Gesundheitsingenieur”, which was then published by R. Oldenbourg Verlag and has been published by Deutscher Industrieverlag since 2012 under the name “GI - GebäudeTechnik | Indoor Climate ”persists and has repeatedly published articles in it. In terms of professional and association politics, he was further committed to improving the situation of engineers and was, for example, involved in leading the 1923 Congress for Heating and Ventilation in Berlin.

As a part-time job, von Boehmer researched the genealogy of his own family and that of his wife throughout his life . He summarized the results in a family story that appeared in 1892. Furthermore, in order to strengthen the family ties and to secure the historical legacies, the family association was founded on his initiative and on the basis of a statute drawn up by him and passed on August 16, 1921.

The nature of Boehmers, like that of his wife, was characterized by friendliness, balance and modesty. For many years he financially supported his brother Bruno von Boehmer , the youngest of the siblings, during his studies, even though he could only live in modest circumstances at the time, and in 1928 he wrote "irrelevant news to my bereaved", in which he asked to be included in To be buried in silence and without a clergy and to leave the burial mound without jewelry, without a grave monument and without naming: “ Since that was enough for so many who died in the war, it will also be enough for my body. "

The grave slab did have his name, but the double grave in the Parkfriedhof Berlin-Lichterfelde was actually very simple, it was re-occupied in 1965. His wife was buried in Düsseldorf in 1954 after moving there to live with her son Thilo von Boehmer in 1945 .

Honors

family

Hugo Erich von Boehmer, 1893

Erich von Boehmer married Ellinor Seliger (1868–1954) in 1893, daughter of the landlord and court clerk Carl Gustav Albert Seliger (1829–1901) and Mary Barbara Rennie (1836–1920) from New Alredsford / Hantshire / Scotland , a sister of the poet Eliza Rennie.

Ellinor von Boehmer, b. Seliger, 1893

Through her father, Ellinor Seliger was the great-granddaughter of the preacher Johann Gotthilf Seliger and, through her maternal line, a descendant of the Pilgrim Governor William Bradford , who emigrated to Plymouth (Massachusetts) , USA with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower in 1620 . Therefore, the descendants of the Hugo Erich von Boehmer family can be accepted as members of the renowned Mayflower Society .

Erich von Boehmer and Ellinor Seliger had four children together:

Works

  • Genealogy of the Boehmer families descended from Justus Henning Boehmer and von Boehmer as well as some of the families related by marriage to them . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1892, 48 pages with illus. ( Digitized version )
  • Obvious prior use of inventions as an obstacle to the granting of patents and as a reason for the invalidity of patents . J. Springer Berlin, 1901.
  • The patentability of inventions. Principles for their examination and for the granting of patents . L. Simion, Berlin 1911.
  • Assessment of inventions under patent law . C. Heymann, Berlin 1931.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Hamburg ironworks Nagel & Kaemp
  2. ↑ "II. Assembly of heating and ventilation specialists ”, 11.-13. August 1898, Munich
  3. ↑ Boehmers' professional policy demands. Speech of July 4, 1898, in: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 32, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1898
  4. ↑ How the Hessians experienced the first winter of the war in 1914 . Hessischer Rundfunk (hr-online), report from December 15, 2014 u. a. to prisoners of war in the Hanau area
  5. ^ Website of the magazine "GI - GebäudeTechnik | Indoor climate "
  6. ↑ "Water and Gas", Volume 13 No. 26, March 30, 1923
  7. ↑ "von Boehmer'scher Familienverband eV", entry in the register of associations of the Berlin-Lichterfelde District Court under no. 141 on October 4, 1921, Figure: [1]
  8. ↑ Eliza Rennie in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ General Society of Mayflower Descendants in Massachusetts, USA


personal data
SURNAME Boehmer, Hugo Erich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehmer, Erich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and patent attorney
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1939
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde