Inge Bergmann

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Inge Bergmann (born June 30, 1927 - July 17, 2016 ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Mailbox for Inge Bergmann and the Bumke company, Engelbosteler Damm 5

Inge Bergmann was the daughter of the businessman Eduard Bergmann (born September 29, 1897 in Coppenbrügge ; † 6 September 1973 in Hannover ), which at the time of the Weimar Republic and during the Great Depression in 1929, the electrical wholesaler Hermann Albert Bumke took over in Hanover, its corporate office Back then it was still in Rundestrasse behind Hanover's main train station on Raschplatz .

After the company buildings were destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in World War II , Bergmann's father bought a plot of land in the northern part of Hanover between Oberstrasse and Engelbosteler Damm , where Inge Bergmann completed a commercial apprenticeship with her father from 1946 and still during the time of the British occupation zone . Like the other employees, her father let her - like a rubble woman - haul stones for the reconstruction: "But it was almost stricter with me than with my other young colleagues," she said later in an interview with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung .

Main building of the Hermann Albert Bumke company on Engelbosteler Damm in the northern part of Hanover at night

After the office building was opened in 1955, Inge Bergmann quickly grew into the management position of the company, "[...] extremely unusual for women in the 1950s, " as she herself emphasized. She headed the company for around 50 years, since the death of her father Eduard in 1973 she was solely responsible.

Bergmann was later elected as the first woman to the general assembly of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In 1991 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her decades of voluntary work in various committees and associations in the economy .

After Inge Bergmann had withdrawn from active management after decades, she often expressed her concern about the social and political changes in Germany, referring to "superficiality, corruption , false idols, brutality of language [and] the excessive influence of the media".

Inge Bergmann lived until the end on the fourth floor of the office building on Engelbosteler Damm in Hanover's northern part of the city, which was built after the Second World War.

On July 28, 2016, she was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg .

Inge Bergmann bequeathed her assets to various charitable and animal welfare organizations.

literature

  • Franz B. Döpper : Hermann Albert Bumke / electrical and sanitary wholesale. In Franz B. Döpper: Hanover and its old companies. Edited by the Association of German Economic Historians. Pro Historica, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , pp. 220f.

Web links

Commons : Inge Bergmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Two obituaries in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from July 23, 2016, p. 18
  2. ^ Franz B. Döpper: Hermann Albert Bumke / electrical and sanitary wholesaling. In Franz B. Döpper: Hanover and its old companies. Edited by the Association of German Economic Historians. Pro Historica, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , pp. 220f.
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Bergmann, Eduard. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 62.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Gerda Valentin: Nordstadt / The Bumke wholesaler looks back on 100 years of existence / As a landmark, the building is almost as distinctive as the Christ Church: "Near Bumke", many people from northern towns say when they see the southernmost corner of the E- Damms mean. In: Stadtanzeiger Nord , supplement to the HAZ from October 16, 2009, last accessed on July 24, 2016
  5. ↑ Bärbel Hilbig: Plumbing and electrical wholesaling in the north of the city: The traditional Bumke store is leaving the city , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Bärbel Hilbig: A traditional house is leaving the city / Despite many problems, the Bumke plumbing and electrical wholesaler has kept in a central location in the north of the city to this day. 120 employees work there under difficult conditions - now a move promises modernization. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 18, 2017, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1927
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2016