Joachim Parbs

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Joachim Parbs

Johann Peter Joachim Parbs (born January 25, 1868 in Bülow ; † July 20, 1930 in Lübeck ) was a German entrepreneur. In 1894 he founded a forwarding company that still exists today .

Life

career

In 1894 Parbs founded the trucking business J. Parbs, Ehlert Nachf. , From the smallest beginnings as a carter in the house he had bought in Alsheide 13 , steadily expanding and enlarging it. In 1897 he changed the name of his company to J. Parbs .

Its origin gave Parbs good relations with the agriculture . His expertise ensured that the horse connoisseur and lover only had first-class horse equipment. He was the first led heavy cold-blooded animals that are characterized by a high body weight and a calm temperament characterized as draft horses in Luebeck and his horse-drawn rolling and moving vans were soon to lübeckischen cityscape.

Less than ten years after it was founded , there was a major change for the company . Since it had become too big for the house in Alsheide, Parbs acquired the Fischergrube 84 house and relocated the company's headquarters and apartment there. The house in Alsheide however, was to continue until he in 1907 to L. Possehl & Co sold as workplace used.

When HF Meiners, which had existed since 1850, gave up its rail freight forwarding division , it was taken over by Parbs on January 1, 1910. The office on displays of siding at the station . The building with the previous company headquarters remained in Parbs's possession and was partially let. Parbs moved his apartment to the no longer existing house number 5 in Kreuzweg, which is adjacent to the station area . The company name changed for the last time to Joachim Parbs, which still exists today . The house in the Fischergrube was rented to several tenants and in 1915 it was sold to Otto Diedrichsen, who was still a carter at the time.

The company carried out the delivery and removal of official railway goods, machine and boiler transports, as well as furniture transports at home and abroad, 24 hours a day and its fleet consisted of up to 60 horses. Also complete could house stands with him embedded ground. In addition to rail and furniture haulage, a specialty of his house . The conscientiousness and reliability were so valued that if a Parbs wagon was ordered, the arrival of which was predictable to the minute, today it is said to be just in time.

Arrival of the main block
Parbs carriage with granite block

On October 5, 1929, the church council of St. Marien placed the document, in which the history of the memorial for the 318 war victims of the St. Marien parish in Lübeck, was placed in the step substructure of the monument in front of the window of the mayor's chapel . The contract for the delicate transport of the main block of Gotland granite in the form of a 23,000 kg granite stone from the port, where it arrived from Sweden on June 25th by sea, was awarded to the shipping company Joachim Parbs . The block with a volume of around 7.6 cubic meters (1.80 m × 2.70 m × 1.57 m) transported a flat wagon of the shipping company pulled by a team of 16 horses , as can be seen in the adjacent picture . The memorial was inaugurated on Sunday of the Dead.

As a member of the Lübecker Möbelspediteure association founded on March 26, 1908, Parbs had been its chairman for many years. He was also a member of the Lübeck Fuhrherren Association and the Lübeck Rifle Club .

An illness that had persisted for a long time forced Parbs to hand over management to the next generation, his son-in-law Georg Schmidt, on March 1, 1930 .

The tram presented on July 24, 1930 a 14:55 from the market to the 45 minutes later planned cremation in the crematorium on the Vorwerker cemetery propelled extra trams available.

family

Parbs had married Anna Catharina Maria , née Grieben, (born October 20, 1869 in Palingen ) on November 23, 1894 in Herrnburg .

The marriage resulted in a daughter, Frieda. When Parbs died, he had two grandchildren

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Parbs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bülow was one of the founding communities that merged on June 13, 2004 to form the new community of Königsfeld.
  2. Joach. Heinr. Friedr. Ehlert
  3. Hans Friedrich Meiners
  4. War memorial to St. Marien. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1929/30, No. 1, edition of October 13, 1929, p. 3.