Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Löning

Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Löning (born June 21, 1796 in Bremen ; † March 10, 1879 in Bremen) was a German businessman and chairman of the Bremen Citizens Park Association .

biography

Löning was the son of the businessman Georg Löning (1757-1817) and his wife, the senator's daughter Sophie Helene Iken (1771-1831).
He was married to the daughter of a businessman, Sophie Elisabeth Löning, b. Bley (1799–1852), both had five children, including Dr. jur. George Anton Loening, lawyer and Senate secretary.

As a young man, he fought as a Lützow hunter in Belgium in 1813 . That is why he later became an officer in the Bremen vigilante group . He completed a business apprenticeship. In the 1820s he worked as a merchant in Spain and in 1824 became the Spanish Vice Consul in Bremen. In 1840 he became the parent of the merchants and in 1849 a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . He was a member of several societies and chairman of a theater business association . He was also active as a freemason in the Bremen Lodge Zum Oelzweig .

Bremen initially did not support the idea of afforestation of an area on the Bremer Bürgerweide . That is why the merchants Löning, Johann Hermann Holler and Franz Ernst Schütte , initially with 60 members, founded the citizens 'initiative Comité for the forestation of the citizens' pasture on November 16, 1865 . From 1865 to 1872 Löning was the first chairman of the association for foresting the Bürgerweide from which the Bürgerparkverein Bremen emerged in 1872 . According to plans by the first park director (1865–1870 and 1877–1884) and landscape gardener Wilhelm Benque , it was during this time that the public park began to be laid out as a public park.

Honors

The Löningstrasse in Bremen-Mitte was named after him.

literature

Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

^ Roland Hoede: Die Paulskirche als Symbol , Frankfurt am Main and Bayreuth 1999, p. 72 (there illustration of the corresponding page of a membership directory of the lodge).

personal data
SURNAME	Löning, Justin Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	March 10, 1879
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Roland Hoede: Die Paulskirche als Symbol , Frankfurt am Main and Bayreuth 1999, p. 72 (there illustration of the corresponding page of a membership directory of the lodge).