Karl Lange (founder)
Karl Lange (* approximately in March 1811 in Brüggen (Leine) ; † 11. January 1867 in Hannover ) was a German teacher , Hof - Steinmetz , master mason and building contractor . During the still young industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover , the patron founded the Langesche Foundation, which still exists today, to “support needy widows and orphans in the building trade ”.
Life
family
Karl Lange was born the son of a master bricklayer and stone mason in Brüggen near Hildesheim and later became the brother-in-law of the Hanoverian architect, senator and building contractor Ferdinand Wallbrecht through marriage .
Career
After working as a teacher at the Bauewerksschule Holzminden , Karl Lange acquired citizenship of the royal seat of Hanover on May 21, 1845 . Lange ran his own construction business here , in which his younger brother-in-law Ferdinand Wallbrecht completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and - after Karl Lange's death - became the sole owner of the construction business.
In his will of January 2, 1865, Karl Lange decreed the 40,000 thalers' foundation and a house “with accessories” at Theaterstrasse 14 “for free and unrestricted ownership” of the Langesche Foundation, which was then named after him .
The burial place of Karl Lange found on the city cemetery Engesohde .
The Langesche Foundation , which still exists today, had the architect Albrecht Haupt build a new building for Theaterstrasse 14 between 1900 and 1901 . In the later roofed-over inner courtyard as part of the Luise Gallery, a life-size group of sculptures by the founder of the foundation "and his protégés " based on a design by the sculptor Karl Gundelach is shown on one wall .
literature
- Marko Paysan: A Brief History of the Langesche Foundation. In: "Luise" - royal shopping. Die Passage , brochure for the opening of the Galerie Luise , pp. 28–33
- Dirk Böttcher : LANGE, (1) Karl. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 222.
- Dirk Böttcher: Lange, (1) Karl. 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. 386.
Web links
- Diethelm Heinen, Mathias Fischer (Managing Director): Langesche Foundation In: voluntigenserver.de , a project of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration via the operating company RegioOnline mbH . Retrieved January 2, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Dirk Böttcher: LANGE, (1) ... (see literature)
- ^ Friedrich Lindau : Lange - Wallbrecht (search result), in: Planning and building in the fifties in Hannover , Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 35
- ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Theaterstraße 14. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 203
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lange, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court mason, building contractor and founder of the foundation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around March 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brüggen (Leine) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1867 |
| Place of death | Hanover |