Johann Christoph Bendler

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Grave of Johann Christoph Bendler in the cathedral cemetery, Berlin-Wedding

Johann Christoph Bendler (born October 29, 1789 in Hoym ; † February 17, 1873 in Berlin ) was a councilor mason and local politician in old Berlin .

Life

Inscription on the tombstone of Johann Christoph Bendler and his wife
Bendler Bridge in Berlin

Johann Christoph was Jakob Bendler's third child. He learned the mason trade and then worked in his hometown as a foreman . Bendler married the daughter of the council mason Carl Sperling, Johanne Caroline Sophie, who was born in 1793. After 1820 the family moved to old Berlin and built their own house on Friedrichswerder , Grenadierstrasse 25. In 1832 he was appointed councilor mason in the city. He bought the area between Berlin-Tiergarten and the later Landwehr Canal for the construction of villas. One of the newly laid streets was named on November 7, 1837.

Due to his services to the development of Berlin, the royal city administration appointed Johann Christoph Bendler as head of the 86th district in 1826. He also became a politician . Before 1830 he had bought  a house on Unter den Linden 5 to live there with his wife and children.

He was buried in the cemetery of the cathedral community, Liesenstrasse 6 in Berlin.

In the time of National Socialism, the so-called Bendlerblock was built in Bendlerstrasse as an extension of the Reichsmarinamt . On July 20, 1955, the responsible district administration changed the street name to Stauffenbergstraße.

honors and awards

  • Designation of Bendlerstrasse of 7 November 1837 to July 20, 1955, from then until today Stauffenbergstraße (the name still reminds the resident Bendler Block ). An extension of this street was named Verlängerte Bendlerstraße in 1850 . This section of the street was renamed Kluckstrasse on June 5, 1935 .
  • The Bendlerbrücke (previously Von-der-Heydt-Brücke ), newly built in 1957/58 and named after him, spans the Landwehr Canal on the Bendlerblock in Berlin-Tiergarten . It leads the street Stauffenbergstrasse / Kluckstrasse over the canal and connects the Reichpietschufer with the Schöneberger Ufer.

Web links

Commons : Johann Christoph Bendler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bendlerstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. ↑ Grenadierstrasse 25 . In: CF Wegener: House and General Address Book of the Royal. Capital and residence city Berlin , 1822, part 3, p. 115. “Bendeler; Master mason ”(not yet entered in the 1820 address book).
  3. ↑ Bendler, C. In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1830. “Raths-Maurermeister; Unter den Linden 5, E [= owner] ”.
  4. ↑ Berlin street directory, www.luise-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Bendler, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor mason and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoym near Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1873
Place of death Berlin