Hugo Hanke

Wilhelm Hugo Hanke (born May 8, 1837 in Eilenburg ; † March 31, 1897 in Berlin ) was a German building contractor and member of the Berlin city council .

Life

Hanke was a son of the lawyer Justizrat Wilhelm Theodor Hanke in Eilenburg. His brother Paul Hanke (1839–1916) was also a master builder .

In 1873 Hanke was Vice Director of Berlin-Charlottenburger Bauverein AG , and from 1876 he was run as a building contractor. Around 1879, Hanke was employed as the liquidator of the Tiergarten share building association . In 1881/82 he was a co-owner of the Berliner Krahngesellschaft H. Bachstein & Co. From 1881 to 1885 and again from 1893 until his death in 1897, Hanke was a member of the Berlin city council. After founding the Berlin Panorama Society in 1881, Hanke was its director until 1897. From 1886 the company showed the “Panorama of the Battle of Sedan ” every day in a circular building on the Panoramastraße 1 property at Alexanderplatz station .

At the beginning of the 1880s, Hanke was entrusted with the property negotiations for the expansion and expansion of Kurfürstendamm . In return, he asked for a concession for a horse-drawn tram on Kurfürstendamm. On January 20, 1883, a contract was signed between him and the city of Charlottenburg . The Kurfürstendamm-Gesellschaft , founded on December 22, 1882, took over its execution with a capital of eight million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 60 million euros) and Hanke was appointed technical director of the company.

The family grave is located on Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Honors

In his honor, the newly created Hankestrasse was named in 1910 when the Scheunenviertel was redesigned. It was first mentioned in the Berlin address book in 1911. It has been part of Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse between Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Torstrasse since 1969 .

Hugo and Anna Hanke Foundation

Around 1901 his widow Anna founded the Hugo and Anna Hanke Foundation with endowment capital of more than five million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 34 million euros). The purpose of the foundation was stated in 2015 with the original wording “Financial support for needy citizens of Berlin who have not fallen into public relief for the poor”. How this purpose is to be interpreted in the current system of state social benefits remains unclear.

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Hugo Hanke. In: List of Honors. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , October 7, 2009, accessed on November 8, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hankestrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
^ Arne Hengsbach: The Berlin steam tram. A contribution to the history of transport in the 19th century . In: Böttchers Kleine Eisenbahnschriften . Issue 39.Dortmund, p. 12-14 .
^ List of foundations with legal capacity under civil law based in Berlin. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) Senate Department for Justice, Berlin, July 1, 2015, p. 16 , archived from the original on November 8, 2016 ; accessed on November 8, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hanke, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hanke, Wilhelm Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German building contractor, member of the Berlin city council
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eilenburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1897
Place of death	Berlin

[DOB-1] Wilhelm Hugo Hanke. In: List of Honors. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , October 7, 2009, accessed on November 8, 2016 .

[LuiseLexStr-2] Hankestrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

[Hengsbach_12-14-3] Arne Hengsbach: The Berlin steam tram. A contribution to the history of transport in the 19th century . In: Böttchers Kleine Eisenbahnschriften . Issue 39.Dortmund, p. 12-14 .

[Stiftungen-4] List of foundations with legal capacity under civil law based in Berlin. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) Senate Department for Justice, Berlin, July 1, 2015, p. 16 , archived from the original on November 8, 2016 ; accessed on November 8, 2016 .