Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens

Johs. Rahtgens

Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens (born June 22, 1822 in Lübeck ; † April 17, 1907 there ) was a German printing company owner and member of the Lübeck citizenship.

Life

origin

Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens was a son of the printer Heinrich Gottfried Rahtgens. In 1827, the Lübeck Senate granted him the concession to operate a book printing company, with the condition that it would not interfere with the privileges of the two existing book printing companies ( Schmidt and Borchers ).

career

Rahtgens his father joined the print shop and built it while maintaining the company HG Rahtgens one of the leading regional printing and Graphic Arts Institute of. From 1849 to 1866 he published the Lübecker Zeitung, organ for politics, trade, shipping and industry , the school programs of the Katharineum , numerous club magazines, the Lübeck document book Codex diplomaticus Lubecensis , city maps and brochures. He was of particular importance for the society for the promotion of non-profit activities and its organ Lübeckische Blätter , which he took over at the beginning of 1859 and was responsible not only as publisher until 1906, but also as an employee and several times as responsible editor.

In 1865 he moved the apartment and printing shop from Alfstraße 51 to the representative patrician house Mengstraße 9 (today's house number 12); the building was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

Rahtgens was often involved in the community. In addition to his commitment to the non-profit organization and his membership in the Lübeck Masonic Lodge Zur Weltkugel , he was head of the Lübeck trade school, the industrial school and the hostel for home . In the field of professional policy, he was co-founder and chairman of the Association of Book Printing Owners, the Book Printer Health and Support Fund and the Health Insurance Fund for Lithographers and Stone Printers, and a member of the board of the advance and savings association.

He was a civil deputy of numerous administrative authorities, such as the accounting and auditing deputation, the billing commission, the department for indirect taxes, the cemetery and funeral deputation and the central poor deputation as well as a member of the administrative authority for municipal authorities, the tax authority and the Department of Finance. From 1867 to 1882 he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and from 1872 to 1882 its chairman. In his parish of St. Aegidien he was a church council member for over thirty years and from 1880 church council chairman.

From 1873 to 1897 he belonged to the Lübeck citizenship and became one of the most outstanding and influential members . He was appointed to the citizens' committee several times and was repeatedly its deputy spokesman.

family

Rahtgens married Alwine.

His eldest son, Carl Gottfried Lucian Rahtgens (1851–1906), took over the printing company. When he died in 1906, his son, Otto Alwin Rahtgens, continued the business. His son, Carl Ernst Rahtgens , took part in the preparations for the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 and was executed as a resistance fighter when the attack failed .

Hugo Rahtgens became a civil engineer and architectural historian.

Paul Rahtgens became provost.

literature

• Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens †. In: Lübeckische Blätter 49 (1907), pp. 214f.
• Some of the history of the HG Rahtgens graphic art institute in Lübeck. Hamburg: Publishing house and printing company. [1913]
• Paul Rahtgens: The Rahtgens family in the last two centuries: The descendants of Johannes Nikolaus Heinrich Rahtgens anläßl. d. Return s. Birthday on June 22, 1922. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1922

See also

• History of the Lübeck daily newspapers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary (lit.)
2. ↑ Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center